Tag: In the Community

Longest Day Campaign

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Carmen Zimmitt (top left) with Esteemed Ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.: Laverne C., Angela D, Florence N. and Grace T.
Recruiting Team Lead, Carmen Zimmitt volunteered with her Sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, who partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Richmond in it’s observance of the Longest Day campaign for fundraising and awareness at the Science Museum of Virginia.
 
Click here to learn more, or to register for an event. 

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2017 Board Appointments

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Sam visits the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, VA.

In January, Astyra’s President, Sam Young joined the Sport’s Backers Board of Directors.

In April, Sam joined the Lead Virginia class of 2017. He and 50 other business and community leaders from around the Commonwealth of Virginia will explore the region and grapple with major issues, challenges and opportunities facing the Commonwealth. The group has visited Williamsburg and Danville thus far.

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Walking For Charity

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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), is a large mental health organization aimed at improving lives for Americans affected by mental illness.
 
Annual events are held nationwide, to raise funds in support of the mission-driven work of NAMI organizations. 
 
Our employees working at Magellan of Virginia came up with a great fundraising idea for the upcoming event. They provided a snack store at their office and raised enough money to come in 2nd place for the most money raised out of 5 departments! 
 
We are very proud of their efforts!! The Virginia walk will be on October 15, 2016.

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Customer Service Appreciation Week 2016

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Photo on left: Khari Patterson (top left), Thomasa Grate (bottom left), Felicia Batts (top right). Photo on right: Natasha Winfield.
Astyra’s Customer Service employees at Magellan of Virginia were thanked for their hard work during Customer Service Appreciation Week, from October 3-7, 2016.
 
Astyra provided prizes for the winners of the various competitions played during the week. Pictured are some of the recipients!
 
Two of our employees shared their experience of the week with us. Read what they had to say below:
 
Customer Service Associate, Felicia Batts said that Customer Service Appreciation Week was filled with team togetherness! She said that the team were able to laugh and enjoy some friendly competition while playing games (such as bingo and a scavenger hunt).
 
Felicia is proud that they were able to have fun and maintain their calls during the week, and said that the team saw how vital their role is, at Magellan of Virginia.Felicia said that the various activities, snacks, lunch and rewards were greatly appreciated by the team.
 
Outpatient Support Specialist, Khari Patterson commented that this year’s Customer Appreciation Week went above and beyond! She was happy that the entire week provided a line-up of activities promoting group interaction, friendly competition and fun amongst the team!
 
Khari particularly enjoyed the day where team members wore jerseys of their favorite sports team to work. Overall, she said that the week made everyone feel very appreciated for the work that they do throughout the year.

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Rugged Maniac Mud Run

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CEO, Ken Ampy participated in his first Rugged Maniac event with his longtime friend and fellow entrepreneur, James Brown.

Ken said that next time he’d love to participate with the entire Astyra team!

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Committed To Giving Back

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Mark Thompson.
Denise and Melanie pictured with Keynote Speaker, Vernice "Flygirl" Armour.
Brittany Brown.

Astyra is proud of our staff who engage in community service initiatives. Below are some highlights of employees who were active in the community in 2015. 

Mark Thompson, Astyra’s CFO, is a member of the Sports Backers Presidents Council Executive Committee and served as the Chair for the Scholar Athlete dinner, held on June 2, 2015. He has been with the group for 5 years.
 
Melanie Parrish, Director of Client Accounts and Denise White, Recruiting Team Lead attended the First Annual Diversity and Inclusion Symposium, co-hosted by VCU and the Greater Richmond Society of Human Resource Management on June 26, 2015. 
 
The symposium brought together business, academic and community leaders as well as human resource, diversity and inclusion professionals to promote the widespread value of diversity and inclusion. 
 
Keynote speakers included Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Vernice “Flygirl” Armour, America’s First African American Combat Pilot, Former Captain in the United States Marines.

In August, 2015 Technical Recruiter, Victor Rogers was selected to be part of Mentor Richmond, hosted by the Greater Chamber Richmond Chamber. Click here to learn more. 
 
Brittany Brown came from a cheerleading background, and just couldn’t refuse Astyra’s President, Sam Young when he requested that she help coach a cheerleading squad with the Wells Athletic Association.
 
Brittany truly enjoyed the experience and she commented, “Not only did I have the opportunity to work with talented girls who were doing something I love, the exercise didn’t hurt either!” 

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Astyra Visits The Reinhart Guest House

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Ken Ampy is on the St. Mary’s community foundation board and has volunteered to make meals at the Reinhart Guest House 4 times. 
Ken’s passion for the community has resulted in Astyra staff getting involved too. 
We made dinner for the guests at the start of the year, and decided to return again on December 16, 2015. 
 
Astyra’s office opened a little late that day as we spent the morning preparing breakfast for the guests staying at the house. 
We made “make-your-own” breakfast burritos for the guests!
 
There are many ways you can get involved. To learn more about volunteer opportunities at the guest house, click here.  

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RichTech Awards Gala

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CEO, Ken Ampy and Senior Account Manager, Lee Rattigan are pictured here.

Ken Ampy, Lee Rattigan and Melanie Parrish attended RichTech’s 20th Annual Richmond Technology Awards Gala on May 13, 2015, at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.  

RichTech serves to promote the region as a technology center and provides a vehicle for addressing the needs of Central Virginia’s dynamic technology community.  

As an IT staffing and consulting company, Astyra has been a member of RichTech (Richmond Technology Council) since 2010.  

This annual event recognizes and celebrates the achievements in Richmond’s technology community.

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