At PlumbingSupply.com®, we believe in helping the needy. In 1971, before founding our company, Vic earned a degree in Sociology from California State University at Northridge. He states that we humans are happiest when we help others, and our company has chosen to nurture a spirit of giving in our daily business transactions as well as in the overall culture of our workplace and our collective identity as PlumbingSupply.com®.
We believe in education of those less fortunate and giving those less fortunate assistance towards their own future and destiny - in the principle of teaching people to fish, giving them a boat, teaching them how to farm and grow crops and also in giving the poor land, rather than just giving "handouts" each and every time that the poor ask.
As our founder says, "Of course, the starving must be fed, but also teach them how to help themselves." We strongly believe that is a truly valuable gift that encompasses more than a "handout" ever could.
Because Vic has made much of his income from plumbing related products, he desires to give back primarily to charitable organizations which are plumbing related. As Vic has said, "What the world's poorest one billion need more than doctors, good roads, the Internet and even electricity, is quality drinking water and safe sewage disposal. Society is nothing without good plumbing."
If you would like for us to consider your charity for a donation, please submit a written (mailed by U.S. mail) request to:
Donations & Sponsorships
PlumbingSupply Group, LLC
994 East 20th Street
Chico, CA 95928
Please do not call or write to follow up. There are so many charities and great causes and we can only give to a small percentage. IF we decide to give to your charity, we will let you know within 2 weeks of receiving your request. If we cannot provide support at this time, we will not send any notice to you.
You must be a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization to be considered and please note that projects that help people build permanent (plumbing related) improvements will get first priority.
Please send a copy of your favorite non profit annual statement of expenses and any other literature available to aid us in the decision-making process.
Quotes that inspire our giving spirit...and that we hope will inspire you too!
"What the world's poorest one billion need more than doctors, good roads, the Internet and even electricity, is quality drinking water and safe sewage disposal. Society is nothing without good plumbing."
- Vic (our Founder)
"When you consider the contributions that plumbing and sanitation make to the quality of all of our lives, then many of the other things that we do just seem so much less significant."
- Vic (our Founder)
"Good enough never is. Practice Kaizen (constant improvement) your whole life and you'll never have to look back."
- Vic (our Founder)
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
- Confucius
"Teach us to give and not to count the cost."
- Ignatius Loyola
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
- William Wordsworth
"Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless."
- Sherry Anderson
"To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is."
- Chinese proverb
"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The best way to cheer yourself up: Cheer everybody else up."
- Mark Twain
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
"Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can, At all the times you can,
To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
