Project Grow

Project Grow offers educational programs focused on preserving and developing the urban coast in Orange County, California.  During these programs, Project Grow volunteers support natural habitat restoration while deepening their understanding of the role a healthy ecosystem plays in the communities in which they live.

Horizon wants to help our local beaches stay in good shape year round. With spring upon us, we teamed up with Project Grow in Newport Beach to get outside and help keep our bay clean and healthy. With shovels at the ready, we got to work picking up trash, pulling weeds, and planting native plants in their place.

Someone Cares Soup Kitchen

Someone Cares Soup Kitchen provides a daily nutritional meal to homeless, unemployed, working poor families, the unemployed or under-employed, the mentally and physically challenged, and most importantly, children. “We believe that no one should go to bed hungry on the street or otherwise.” It provides meals seven days per week.

Horizon wants to make sure that everyone has a full stomach when they go to sleep. To aid in this effort, Horizon came to the soup kitchen ready to cook and clean. We cleaned, chopped, and cooked for four hours in the kitchen. The team made meals for 300 people in Costa Mesa who would otherwise skip lunch that day. Giving our time to help the community is one of Horizon’s core values.

Strong Tower Ministries

Strong Tower Ministries is building a 6,400 sq. ft. Wellness Center for Siloe Ministries that will expand both the medical care and health education offered to the community and surrounding areas. Siloe’s goal is to continue providing free medical care to needy individuals, while also educating our community about making long-term, healthy choices that will positively impact families’ futures.

Horizon received word that Strong Tower Ministries was in need of volunteers to help complete their medical facilities. We rose to action and headed to La Mision, Baja California to help with the construction of their new medical facility. After our construction task was complete, we prepared a special lunch for the children at the local orphanage.

Back to Natives Restoration

Back to Natives Restoration aims to encourage and actively participate in the restoration and conservation of Orange County and California wildlands, through education and restoration programs featuring native plants and biodiversity as a central theme.

Horizon was tasked with organizing the BNR nursery that is used to propagate and transplant threatened and endangered plants native to Southern California. We were able to help boost sales for BNR’s monthly fundraiser by creating an inviting space for the public to come and purchase the plants. Not only did we help BNR increase sales, but put California native plants back into our communities.

Clothing The Homeless

Clothing The Homeless (CTH) is a ministry of The Journey Christian Church, in Irvine, California. CTH is staffed by a group of volunteers with a heart for serving the homeless population in Orange County through a mobile clothing distribution system. Its goal is to meet the needs of the homeless men and women with clothing and necessities for life on the streets while enduring different seasons and weather.

Horizon stepped up to help clothe the local homeless community alongside Clothing The Homeless. The month prior to the clothing distribution, Horizon employees collected boxes of gently worn clothes and shoes from their closets for donation. The efforts help clothe the homeless with dignity by providing a retail shopping experience that allows individuals to choose clothing that matches their style preferences.

Saddleback Food Pantry

Horizon believes that no family should go to bed hungry. To help with this goal, we teamed up with Saddleback Food Pantry in Lake Forest CA. Horizon stocked the shelves, sorted new donations, and organized the pantry shelves to provide the shoppers with a first-class shopping experience. The Food Pantry provides groceries free of charge to families once a month to combat hungry.

OC Burrito Project

The mission of The OC Burrito Project is to empower the community to become proactive agents of change, focusing on the multifaceted issues contributing to homelessness, and working together to create a path towards self-sufficiency for our homeless neighbors.

Horizon wanted to contribute to the needs of the homeless community in Orange County. We teamed up with The OC Burrito project to aid in its efforts. Horizon was able to raise enough money from employee donations to feed an additional 270 people. On Friday evening once a month, Horizon employees roll burritos and distribute them to the homeless population in Santa Ana. Not only is Horizon aiming to feed the hungry but to educate the community on the challenges that these individuals face every day.

Hurricane Harvey Relief

When victims of war, poverty, disasters, disease, and famine cry out for help, Samaritan’s Purse is often the first to answer. The organization specializes in meeting critical needs in the world’s most troubled regions, often working through ministry partners already on the scene of a crisis. In the U.S., it quickly mobilizes staff and volunteers to provide emergency aid when hurricanes, tornadoes, and other storms strike.

Horizon was quick to respond to the financial needs of the communities affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. Our employees donated over $1,000 to various first responding organizations in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and these donations were matched by our company. We believe it is our responsibility to help our fellow Americans in their time of need.

Operation Santa Claus

The County of Orange Operation Santa Claus program provides gifts and toys to children who are abandoned, neglected, or abused and are placed in foster care in Orange County. In addition, Operation Santa Claus provides holiday gifts to children of disadvantaged families who are receiving services from the County of Orange.

Horizon believes that every child should have a gift to open on Christmas Day. Every year Horizon employees spend their time organizing shelves of toys and unloading new donations in the county’s warehouse. When the social workers and parents come into the warehouse, employees quickly greet them and help to find the toys that are on the child’s wish list.

Pay It Forward

In May 2016 our CEO handed each employee $100 with the challenge to Pay It Forward. The Horizon team quickly began working together and brainstorming ideas.

Employees used the $100 in various ways from donating it to a GoFundMe account for a kidney transplant, feeding the homeless, and purchasing school supplies. Palmyra Elementary in Orange was a deserving recipient of Pay It Forward, and received much-needed school supplies for the underfunded elementary school. Our Boston team provided school supplies to the Build-A-Backpack at Wellesley and Framingham Library. Other employees purchased pizza for the homeless community.

Thanksgiving Food Distribution

Thanks to support from Horizon Technology and Cambridge Packing, over 15 volunteers helped to distribute the fixings needed for a Thanksgiving meal to 150 families.