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Gilbert Named a Finalist for U.S. Freedom Award
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense agency, announced 30 employers are finalists for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer
Support Freedom Award this month. The Freedom Award is the DoD's highest recognition given to employers for exceptional support of their employees serving in the
Guard and Reserve. The 30 finalists were selected from 4,049 nominations received earlier this year from Guard and Reserve service members or their families. The
Town of Gilbert was named a finalist on this list.
A board selected the finalists from the group of 148 semifinalists announced last month. Employers named as finalists for the Freedom Award stand out for the
formal and informal initiatives they put in place for Guard and Reserve employees and their families. Finalists supportive measures include accommodating Guard
and Reserve members' military responsibilities, making up the difference in military and civilian pay during deployments, continuation of benefits, sending care
packages and providing personal support to the families of employees called away from home.
A national selection board comprised of senior DoD officials, business leaders and prior awardees will select 15 recipients for the 2011 Freedom Award. The DoD
is expected to announce the award recipients in early summer. Since 1996, only 145 organizations have been presented with the Freedom Award.
The finalists for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award are:
Employer, Location
3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
Ameren Missouri, St. Louis, Mo.
Amica Mutual Insurance Co., Lincoln, R.I.
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, N.D.
Burt County Sheriff's Office, Tekamah, Neb.
Chesterfield County Police Department, Chesterfield, Va.
Creform, Greer, S.C.
CSX Transportation, Jacksonville, Fla.
Electrical Contractors Inc., Omaha, Neb.
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich.
GCI, Anchorage, Alaska
Hanson Professional Services Inc., Springfield, Ill.
Integrity Applications Incorporated, Chantilly, Va.
Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, Bismarck, N.D.
Kent County Levy Court, Dover, Del.
Key Risk Management Services, Greensboro, N.C.
Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, Lakewood, Colo.
Orange County Sheriff's Department, Santa Ana, Calif.
Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa
PRTM Management Consultants, Washington, D.C.
Qwest Communications, now CenturyLink, Monroe, La.
Santa Fe Police Department, Santa Fe, N.M.
St. John's Lutheran Church, Yankton, S.D.
State Correctional Institute, Waymart, Waymart, Pa.
State Employees' Credit Union, Raleigh, N.C.
Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein and Blader, P.C., Lawrenceville, NJ
Town of Gilbert, Gilbert, Ariz.
Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, Calif.
Western Systems and Fabrication, Spokane Valley, Wash.
For more information on ESGR, visit www.esgr.org/site/. |
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