LYNWOOD, CA-Griffin Capital Corporation employees teamed up recently with
volunteers and employees from Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (HFH GLA) to work on a multi-home project for deserving families in Lynwood, not far from Griffin's headquarters in El Segundo. Over the course of a day, 40 Griffin employees framed roofs, installed floors, and assembled and erected walls for two different homes in the seven home "neighborhood" that HFH GLA is building.

Although this was not Griffin's first community service project, it marked the first time Griffin Capital
partnered with Habitat for Humanity.

David Rupert, president of Griffin Capital, explains, "We picked a Habitat project because a number of our employees had worked on other Habitat homes over the years and found them both well organized and very fulfilling. A project focused on building homes also made sense because we are a real estate investment company, and bricks and mortar is part of our DNA.

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David Phillips

David Phillips is a Chicago-based freelance writer and consultant with more than 20 years experience in business and community news. He also has extensive reporting experience in the food manufacturing industry for national trade publications.

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