{"id":18256,"date":"2017-06-29T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/?p=18256"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:58:14","slug":"team-yardi-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/team-yardi-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Yardi Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Yardi Toronto recently spent time at The Scott Mission in Toronto, giving back by preparing food for those in need.<\/p>\n

The Scott Mission has been serving homeless and impoverished Toronto residents since 1941, and has played a major role in helping thousands of people return to safety and stability after living on the street. In addition to meal services, the mission provides nightly shelter for up to 50 homeless men, groceries and clothing for the impoverished, summer camps and childcare, and worship services.<\/p>\n

The mission\u2019s 100 staff members are joined by 2,500 Toronto community members each year to make these good works possible. On June 20, that included a group of employees from Yardi Canada.\"toronto4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a team building experience as well as a very humbling way to give back to the community,\u201d said Lee Anne Lippa, an application solutions consultant from the Toronto office. \u201cIt left us with added appreciation for our surroundings of health, family, friends, colleagues, our place to work, home to live in and the food on our table.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yardi team, led by senior account executive Shirleen Vieira, participated in food and dessert preparation, setting tables for two lunch servings, and a final clean up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey serve balanced meals,\u201d Lippa noted. \u201cWe had chicken wings, baked potato, hard-boiled egg and salad.\u00a0 Others that were vegetarian with baked potato, salad, hard-boiled egg, salad and grilled eggplant and zucchini.\u201d<\/p>\n

They served lunch to the shelter guests \u2013 which included people of all ages – with courtesy and respect for those coming to eat, which is a focus of the organization\u2019s Christian values.<\/p>\n

Drawing from the Yardi corporate values, which include giving back to the community, the Toronto offices encourages other Yardi colleagues globally to give back in similar fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do not have to be a chef to help out.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyone can help \u2013 they will find tasks for you that you are comfortable with.\u00a0 Maybe even teach you something new that you can take away from a personal experience,\u201d Lippa observed.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the Scott Mission and its long and interesting history serving Toronto at https:\/\/www.scottmission.com<\/a><\/p>\n