Giving Back

From visiting local nursing homes, and delivering flowers to donating over $100,000 to hospice, we’re always creating opportunities to give to others. Through our Rug & Home Foundation, we have given aid and support to hundreds of individuals and groups over the past quarter century. Today we...

Starting June 15, 2013, Rug & Home gifted one rug per week for fifty-two weeks to fifty-two different charitable organizations. The purpose of the giveaway was to help charities and nonprofits raise money for their causes. Rug & Home understands that nonprofits were hardest hit during the economic downturn and wanted to extend a supportive hand to these organizations. We are so proud to be able to support the community in this way!

Our number one community outreach program over the past 10 years has been delivering flowers to area nursing homes in each one of the communities we operate within. Our employees and managers personally hand-deliver bouquets to every resident at different selected nursing homes several times a year for major holidays, like Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and often on a random Wednesday or Thursday for no reason at all.

In April 2007, Rug & Home pledged $100,000 to Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care in Hendersonville, which they used to establish an endowment fund for their palliative care program. Palliative care, unlike hospice, focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients undergoing treatment for chronic or curable diseases. Palliative care, similarly to hospice, uses a multidisciplinary approach to patient care to address not only the physical ailments that come with terminal illness, but also the emotional, spiritual and social concerns that patients may be facing.

When the Believe in Tomorrow Foundation, a national nonprofit organization which provides respite housing services for families dealing with critically ill children, approached Rug & Home to get floor coverings for its newest respite homes in the community of Pinnacle Falls just outside of Asheville, NC, we jumped at the chance to help this tremendous cause.

Manna Food Bank is a nonprofit in Western North Carolina that pairs the food industry with partner agencies in the region with the aim to end hunger. Rug & Home proudly supports this tremendous cause where every $1 donated can provide enough food for 3 meals.

We were so proud to be able to provide the City of Gaffney Police Department with the money for the three vests they desperately needed to ensure the protection of their officers.

When the Asheville Parks & Recreation was looking for support for their little league team, they approached Rug & Home and we were more than happy to help to ensure that this confidence and team-building program continues.

While they attribute their success to hard work in the “Land of Opportunity,” the Rug & Home founders have not forgotten their roots in India – each year, they organize a humanitarian trip to India for a 3-day health clinic in remote villages in the rug-weaving region of eastern Uttar Pradesh where there is little to no access to healthcare. Through these health clinics, they realized that the population most neglected in terms of health is women, and the number one ailment facing many of these underprivileged women is cataracts.

The Dadawas Initiative is a rural poverty eradication project by the Society for Excellence in Education. The Dadawas Institute was started by Sagar Jain, a former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dadawas’ goal is to conquer poverty through education for children living in the rural village of Dadawas in the state of Haryana in India. By providing underprivileged youth with basic health and sanitation services and education, along with a school that fosters learning and enrollment in a rural community where education is secondary to basic needs like food and shelter, Dadawas is hoping to help the poor reach middle class, within the span of one generation.

Rug & Home has proudly sponsored both the 2012 and 2013 seasons of the Music on the Rock series at the Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theater of NC. We also decorated the Playhouse Downtown’s lobby with Rug & Home rugs and furnishings. We are very proud to be associated with this quality performing arts venue and to support the hard work they put in to bringing arts and entertainment to the Carolinas.

Rug & Home is a proud supporter of the Blue Ridge Literacy Council whose mission it is “to provide adults in Henderson County the English communication and literacy skills they need to reach their full potential as individuals, parents, workers and citizens.”