{"id":33903,"date":"2019-08-29T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=33903"},"modified":"2020-02-04T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:09:29","slug":"samsung-donates-100000-construction-columbia-sc-fisher-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/samsung-donates-100000-construction-columbia-sc-fisher-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Donates $100,000 to Construction of Columbia, SC Fisher House"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no place like home, but when that isn\u2019t an option for our nation\u2019s military families, finding a \u2018home away from home\u2019 is the next best thing \u2013 and that\u2019s where Fisher House Foundation comes in.<\/p>\n

Fisher House is expanding its network of 84 comfort homes to the capitol city of South Carolina where military and veterans\u2019 families will be able to stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving medical treatment. As a partner since 2015, Samsung is thrilled to be a part of this endeavor.\u00a0 Yesterday, in the State House, the company announced a donation of $100,000 to the future house as a principal constructor donor.<\/p>\n

\"Samsung<\/a>

Pictured from left to right: Megan Pollock, VP of Strategic Communications at Samsung Electronics America, Peggy McMaster, South Carolina First Lady, and Bill Dukes, Chairman of Friends of Fisher House, Columbia.<\/p><\/div>\n

This donation to Fisher House Foundation brings the Columbia location closer to the necessary funds to break ground on this life-changing resource provided to service members, veterans and their families. Once opened, the Columbia Fisher House will welcome guests on the campus of Dorn VA Medical Center, as well as those veterans being treated at the William Jennings Bryan VA Medical Center.\u00a0 The Columbia Fisher House will be the second of the organization\u2019s houses in the state, and with over 90,000 veterans and activity military in the Dorn VA service area, will help tremendously.<\/p>\n

\"Fisher<\/a>

The Columbia Fisher House will be the third of four new homes built with Samsung\u2019s support since the partnership with Fisher House Foundation was established in 2015, including Charleston, SC (opened 2018) and Palo Alto, CA (opened 2019).<\/p><\/div>\n

Samsung\u2019s business, workforce and community engagement in South Carolina has blossomed significantly over the past two years.\u00a0 In 2017, Samsung expanded its footprint in the U.S. with a new $380 million home appliance manufacturing facility in Newberry County<\/a>, which now has more than 800 employees.\u00a0 In 2018, Samsung was a principal construction donor for the Charleston Fisher House<\/a>, which has 16 rooms and has serviced 1325 families since it opened.\u00a0 And, now, Samsung is excited to continue to deepen roots with our partners by investing in a second Fisher House within the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporting the Fisher House initiative in Columbia is incredibly important to the Samsung family,\u201d said Megan Pollock, vice president of strategic communications at Samsung Electronics America.<\/strong> \u201cSince making Newberry our home to Samsung\u2019s first home appliance manufacturing facility, we have continued to support the local community and more specifically veterans and their families<\/a> across the Midlands.”<\/p>\n

\"Columbia<\/a>

South Carolina First Lady speaks during the announcement of Samsung’s $100,000 donation to Fisher House Foundation on Aug. 28, 2019 in South Carolina.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cFisher Houses are built on partnerships.\u00a0 And partnership begins with community,\u201d said Dave Coker, President of Fisher House Foundation.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cMy deepest thanks to Samsung for its continued support to the Foundation. It\u2019s what we do together that makes the greatest impact.\u00a0 Thank you for being part of that solution and thank you for your support to our military, veterans and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only will the new location provide a haven to South Carolina\u2019s veterans and military families during times of crisis, but will also enable them to better connect and heal throughout their journey and path forward. When our local communities thrive, we at Samsung thrive too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no place like home, but when that isn\u2019t an option for our nation\u2019s military families, finding a \u2018home away from home\u2019 is the next best thing \u2013 and that\u2019s where Fisher House Foundation comes in. Fisher House is expanding its network of 84 comfort homes to the capitol city of South Carolina where military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17565,29719],"tags":[250,544,832,249],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-33903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-communities","category-corporate","tag-donation","tag-fisher-house-foundation","tag-public-affairs","tag-veterans"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/29115134\/Fisher-House-Columbia-rendering.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/29115134\/Fisher-House-Columbia-rendering.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":17565,"name":"Communities","slug":"corporate-communities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17565,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29719,"count":143,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/corporate-communities\/","term_path":"corporate\/corporate-communities"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33903"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=33903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}