During the Awards Luncheon today at the NWFA Wood Flooring Expo in Dallas, the National Wood Flooring Association recognized member companies that earned a Community Service Award. They include:
- Bona US (Aurora, Colo.), which supported multiple charitable causes in 2012 through its Bona Mission Fund and several other programs
- C & R Flooring (Needham, Mass.), which provides flooring for the Room to Dream Foundation, creating healing environments for children with chronic illnesses
- Christopherson Wood Floors (Olympia, Wash.), which donated materials and labor to install a unique wood floor in the local children's museum (read more about this project profiled in Hardwood Floors' February/March 2013 issue here).
- Energyst Solutions Flooring Supply Specialists (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Foremost Custom Hardwood Floors (Stamford, Vt.); the companies teamed up to provide a wood floor for a Habitat for Humanity home
- Oshkosh Designs (Winneconne, Wis.), which donated material to Habitat for Humanity
- Goodwin Heart Pine (Micanopy, Fla.), which coordinated local businesses to support a grassroots community initiative to create healthier and greener holidays
- Horizon Forest Products (Raleigh, N.C.), whose various locations supported many local charitable causes
- Intermountain Wood Flooring (Meridian, Idaho), which worked with the nonprofit El Nino Foundation to donate flooring
- Mirage Floors (St-Georges, Quebec), which donated flooring to a project that supports Operation Finally Home (for wounded veterans) and the Ronald McDonald House
- Lumber Liquidators (Toano, Va.); through its "Lay it Forward" program, it supports Ronald McDonald Houses across the country
- the Mr. Sandless franchisee in Aston, Pa., which donates a portion of every floor serviced to two children's organizations
- the Mr. Sandless franchisee in Sarasota, Fla., which refinished the distressed heart pine floors in the oldest residence in Sarasota County for the Historical Society of Sarasota County
- Vivid Hardwood Flooring (Genoa, Ohio), which donated all supplies for the restoration of a floor at a local shelter for the homeless and poor.
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