Colorful birdhouses now dot the campus of Pink Hill Elementary School thanks to a grant provided by WoodmenLife sales representative Lynn Hill through the insurance company’s Giving Together Project. With Hill, at left, are project volunteers Brenda and George Griffin and students Laurel Lawson and Shealynn Roberts.

The connection between Pink Hill Elementary School and WoodmenLife, the insurance company that has pitched in previously on school improvement projects, has resulted in another grant that adds color to the campus.

Dotting the campus now are four attractively painted birdhouses – including one modeled on a little red schoolhouse – that were created and located with a $500 grant provided through the WoodmenLife 2022 Giving Together Project.

The grant is courtesy of Lynn Hill of Kinston, who as an Alpha Level sales representative with Woodmen qualified for participation in Giving Together and, once again, connected with the school and with friend, Woodmen member and fourth-grade teacher Brenda Griffin.

In 2019, the first year of Giving Together, that teamwork resulted in a $500 grant that provided the foundation for a wooden footbridge that connects the main campus to school’s athletic fields.

“The WoodmenLife 2022 project gives representatives the opportunity to help the community by providing the items needed to complete a project,” Hill said. “The program helps raise visibility to the community, introduces WoodmenLife to organizations and individuals and strengthens relationships with current and former members.”

The grants, capped at $500, can be used for clean-up, community beautification and painting projects. Pink Hill qualified as a beautification project.

Provisions of the grant program prohibit a direct donation of the funds but instead require participation of the sales representative and volunteers in completing the project. On a recent day Hill worked with Griffin, her husband George Griffin and students Laurel Lawson and Shealynn Roberts to erect the last of the birdhouses.

“I am very grateful my WoodmenLife representative, Lynn Hill, selected Pink Hill Elementary School as the recipient of her community project,” Brenda Griffin said. “Our students and staff love the beautiful new birdhouses. They will be a welcoming home to the birds who visit our school campus!”