Cobb company honored for volunteerism
The Cobb Chamber of Commerce picked Balfour Beatty Construction to receive its 2011 Sam Olens Business Community Service Award.
The company volunteered with SafePath Children’s Advocacy Center, Inc. and gave nearly $210,000 to 32 not-for-profits over the past year. It and 10 others won the Georgia Trend Magazine Business Community Service Awards: Cobb EMC, Comcast Corp./Comcast Foundation, Digital Insurance, Elite Telecom Services, General Electric, Printpack Inc., SA White/Mobilized Fuels, Star-Tech Inc., Vulcan Materials Co. and Zenith Design Group.
About the Author
Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
