MANALAPAN – Schoor DePalma Community Foundation, dedicated to servicing communities where Schoor De- Palma employees live, travel, play and work, announced that it has changed its name to CMX Community Foundation.
The move is in line with rebranding of Schoor DePalma to CMX. In addition, the foundation announced the appointment of Patrice Malleus as the foundation’s chairwoman, Rocco Palmieri as its vice chairman and Mary Anne Miller as its treasurer. All are long-serving members of the foundation’s board of trustees. Two additional trustees have also been appointed to the board to enhance the geographic reach of the foundation’s positive impacts, according to a press release.
“Just as our parent organization is announcing news of its rebranding campaign, an initiative that will help position the firm as a national engineering and consulting firm, so too is the community foundation changing its name to help ensure future success,” said Malleus. “This is an exciting time at the foundation and I look forward to contributing to its mission of helping those communities where CMX and its employees are already helping to make a difference.”
In its latest charitable initiative, the CMX Community Foundation has donated back-to-school supplies to communities such as Coatesville, Pa., and Beverly, West Branch and Roselle in New Jersey. CMX, as well as employees themselves, contributed items to support several organizations including; Teach for America, St. James Baptist Church, Community Youth and Women Alliance, Monmouth University and Roselle Borough. The program donated pens, pencils, pencil cases, glue sticks, self-sticking notes, lunch cooler bags, back packs and highlighters. The foundation also donated more than 4,000 plastic bags which will be used to transport food to the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Neptune.
Malleus is a vice president at CMX and a senior project manager in the firm’s Highway Business Unit.
Palmieri is a senior vice president and business service manager at CMX.
Miller is the senior executive assistant to the chief legal officer of CMX.
The foundation has added two additional trustees to expand the board into the firm’s other geographic areas and areas of specialization. Stephanie Kinsey, an executive vice president at CMX in the Southwestern United States operations, is an expert in the coordination of numerous large-scale, master-planned residential and commercial projects.
Lynn LaMunyon, a vice president at CMX, is responsible for managing the design of intersection improvement and signalization projects throughout the New Jersey-New York region.
According to the press release, the CMX Community Foundation was established in. To date the foundation has donated more than $800,000 to programs in the areas of healthcare, community, education and children.