Recognition Highlights Employee-driven Community Impact Through Kids Around The Corner Foundation
Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 6, 2025 - Fleet Advantage, a leading innovator in specialty financing, fleet data analytics, fleet performance services, and life cycle cost management, announced today it has been selected as a recipient of the American Logistics Aid Network’s (ALAN) 2025 Humanitarian Logistics Award in the category of Employee Engagement. The company received the award through its Kids Around The Corner Foundation (KATC), which empowers employees to volunteer and donates a portion of profits to a variety of charitable causes.
This marks the second time Fleet Advantage has earned an ALAN Humanitarian Logistics Award, the first being in 2022 when KATC received the Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Effortsaward.
Since 2017, ALAN’s Humanitarian Logistics Awards have honored individuals and organizations that demonstrate an ongoing and sustained commitment to helping others in their time of greatest need, and who serve as beacons of hope before, during, and after disasters strike. Fleet Advantage and its KATC Foundation were recognized during ALAN’s 20th anniversary celebration on Sunday, October 5 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
In 2024, KATC marked its 10-year anniversaryand delivered a record-setting year of engagement, supporting 51 nonprofit organizations with $380,425 in donations, including 16 new partnerships, while also engaged employees and partners in eight in-person volunteer events. Fleet Advantage employees and their families actively participated in these initiatives, directly impacting the communities where they live and work.
KATC’s community service initiatives included:
- Partnering with Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) to support disaster relief efforts following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, providing urgently needed aid to devastated communities.
- Serving over 2,000 meals and hygiene kits to individuals experiencing homelessness during Good Friday and Thanksgiving events with The Caring Place.
- Donating more than 100 Easter baskets to children in underserved communities.
- Hosting its largest-ever backpack drive, collecting and distributing 200 backpacks filled with school supplies through a new partnership with Henderson Behavioral Health.
- Renewing partnerships with organizations such as Junior Achievement of South Florida, expanding access to financial literacy education for underserved students.
These efforts brought Fleet Advantage’s lifetime charitable contributions through KATC to more than $1 million since its founding in 2014.
“We are incredibly honored that the American Logistics Aid Network has recognized our employees’ passion and commitment through the Kids Around The Corner Foundation,” said Elizabeth Gomez, Director of Marketing and Community Outreach for Fleet Advantage. “Our team consistently demonstrates that community service and humanitarian relief are integral to our company culture. This award reflects their compassion and proves that meaningful engagement can make a lasting difference.”
For more information about ALAN’s Humanitarian Logistics Awards and to view the other 2025 recipients, please click here.
About Fleet Advantage
Fleet Advantage is the largest independent lessor for heavy-duty Class-8 trucks and has over $3.7 Billion in assets under its Life Cycle Cost Management program. This comprises a client portfolio of more than 50 of America’s top corporate fleets, including five (5) of the top 10 private fleets in the country. Fleet Advantage guarantees the absolute lowest cost of operation by providing fleet asset management, financing solutions, and fleet analytics, using the latest equipment technology to achieve optimum vehicle productivity and maximum safety. Our model of TCO, clean diesel, and safety-enhanced trucks with shorter life cycles complement our customers’ ESG goals. The accomplishments of Fleet Advantage and our leadership team continue to be recognized for tremendous growth and industry leadership with numerous awards, including Top Private Independent and Most Innovative Firm by the Monitor Daily, Top Software & Tech Awards, Top Women Associates in Finance, and Green Supply Chain Awards to name a few. The company has also been named to Inc. magazine’s 500|5000 list of fastest growing companies in the nation.
About Kids Around the Corner
Kids Around the Corner was founded in 2014 by Fleet Advantage to support the needs of the communities where their employees and clients live and work. Fleet Advantage has committed to donating a percentage of its profits to children’s charities each year on behalf of their customers.
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