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FIELD’S Fire Protection, Inc.

PARTNERS WITH THE HOME DEPOT FOUNDATION FOR THE ANNUAL COMMUNITY BUILDING INVITATIONAL

Grand Rapids, MI, September 20, 2010 --Field’s Fire Protection, Inc., your Full Service Fire Protection Company, partnered with The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity for the 2010 Community Building Invitational.

Last fall, The Home Depot Foundation and Habitat for Humanity International expanded its Partners in Sustainable Building program and is working with 150 Habitat affiliates in 45 US states and Mexico to build 5,000 homes that meet Energy Star guidelines or a nationally recognized green building standard. During the 2010 Community Building Invitational, we will bring together hundreds of organizations and representatives from our vendor and partner community to transform lives by joining with Habitat for Humanity to build an affordable, healthy home for a deserving family.
Field’s Fire Protection is excited to work with The Home Depot Foundation to address the serious needs facing our communities today,” said Nichole Anderson, Office Manager, Field’s Fire Protection. “Community service is an important value of Field’s Fire Protection and we are thankful for the opportunity to make a positive impact on the community and the environment.”
The Home Depot Foundation’s Community Building Invitational is the largest single source of funding for the Foundations annual programs and operations.
“We are delighted to partner with organizations that make long term commitments to the overall health of our communities,” said Kelly Caffarelli, President, The Home Depot Foundation. “Field’s Fire Protection’s numerous contributions are essential to the Foundation’s ability to accomplish its goals.”
About FIELD’s Fire Protection Field’s Fire Protection, Inc. was established in 1998 as a full service fire protection provider. Is is their mission to provide customers with the opportunity to experience satisfaction with both the quality of service that they receive and the price that they pay. Field’s Fire Protection is pleased to provide their employees with a work environment in which they feel comfortable, appreciated and goal oriented. We have a well-trained, NICET/NAFED certified and dedicated team to take care of all Fire Protection needs.In April 2009 Field's Fire Protection, Inc. became a certified Woman Business Enterprise, and today is providing service to businesses nationwide.
About The Home Depot Foundation The Home Depot Foundation was created in 2002 to further the community building goals of The Home Depot. The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, affordable homes as the cornerstone of sustainable communities where families can thrive. Taking a long-term comprehensive approach, our goal is for all families to have the opportunity to live in health, efficient homes they can afford over the long-term; to have access to safe, vibrant parks and green spaces; and to receive the economic, social and environmental benefits of living is a sustainable community.
Since its formation, The Home Depot Foundation has granted $190 million to nonprofit organizations and supported the development of more than 95,000 affordable, healthy homes. In 2009, The Home Depot Foundation in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International expanded its Partners in Sustainable Building Program and is providing $30 Million in funds over a five year period to build 5,000 homes that meet nationally recognized green building standards. For more information, visit www.homedepotfoundation.org.

In April 2009 Field's Fire Protection, Inc. became a certified Woman Business Enterprise. The National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC) has led the way for women business owners to obtain WBE Certification. Created in 1995, NWBOC was established to increase competition for corporate and government contracts through implementation of a national certification program for women business owners.
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NWBOC was created in response to needs identified by the Procurement Special Interest Group of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO.) The investigation revealed that to a large degree corporate America and government agencies had not received, nor recognized, the benefits of contracting with women suppliers. Only a small fraction of corporate and government contracts were with women-owned firms. This mind set prevented purchasers from obtaining the best value in their procurements, and it limited women business owners from penetrating these markets, which has stymied their business growth. Research has shown that after developing supplier partnerships with women-owned firms, many companies and government agencies have enhanced their bottom line for their shareholders, and taxpayers, respectively.
Certification is the tool by which WBO participation is tracked, and once the tracking provided hard evidence that the federal procurement dollars were virtually bypassing women-owned businesses, remedies were sought in the form of affirmative action programs. Attempts to level the playing field have been enacted over the years in the form of legislation, which began in the1960s with the Commission on the Status of Women, the Civil Rights Act. Three Presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, signed executive orders in the 1960s to increase women and minority participation. In the 1970s women-owned businesses were added to the Economic Census, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed and The President's Interagency Task Force on Women's Business Ownership was organized. The 1980s and 1990s brought 7 policy actions affecting small business, some with a focus on women, including the White House Conference and the Women's Business Ownership Act (HR5050) (NWBC, 2004).
Currently, the 5% federal goal was established in 2000 with the Women's Equity in Contracting Act that gave the contracting office the ability to restrict competition for women-owned firms, up to 5% of all contracts. The Small Business Administration confirms that it is possible for this to have the effect of being a set-aside, but is not expressly one. The intent of this program is to encourage procurement officers to utilize women-owned firms at a higher level in both the number of firms awarded contracts and the dollar amounts awarded to them.
Many large corporations now understand that it makes good business sense to spend dollars with women-owned vendor firms. Corporate management knows it is good for the public relations and for their local communities, but most importantly for the value they get from the dollars spent with women-owned companies.

Field's Fire Protection, Inc. offers Inspection, Installation, Maintenance, and Service of the following:

To provide our customers with the opportunity to experience satisfaction with both the quality of service that they receive and the price that they pay. To provide our employees with a work environment in which they feel comfortable and appreciated. Most of all, to provide ourselves and our family with the happiness and knowledge that comes from committing to and accomplishing a goal.