Let us show you care.

I'm actually a pilot, and I help move animals from shelters to foster homes or permanent homes.

What Truist is doing, you've gotta lift your head up, look around and say how can I help? How can I make a difference?

What's happened with COVID is, many people lost their jobs and animals are one of the first things you start to cut dollars and cents on, which is a shame.

I said, "I can make a difference by helping these animals who are otherwise displaced or in need, and then I get the satisfaction of really giving something to the community."

Truist's purpose, it's all right there in the front and center of what we do all the time.

We've got 50,000 people who work for this company.

If 50,000 people all did one little thing each day to make the community better, what does that math come out to? Do that over the year, you're now talking about 15 million good deeds. That makes a difference.

We are the oldest hardware store in Washington, D.C. continuously operated since 1866.

We moved here in 2014 and this is hopefully will be the home for the next hundred years at least.

Jenks is unique because there's not just a hardware store they have a very profitable income producing building with a very dynamite hardware store in the center of the building.

In order for us to stay in business our ability to change direction has enabled us to go through the ebbs and flows that the economy has gone through over the last 150 years.

Truist enables us to finance our business which enables us to provide the products and services that the residents of this community actually use and depend on.

The ultimate goal of the PPP loans was to make sure that people were able to keep getting paid even if they were in situations, where by no fault of their own, they couldn't go to work.

Twenty percent of our staff was 60 or over and one of the things that we didn't want to do was let those people go.

And I called Truist they gave us some direction on the PPP loan.

We had the loan submitted within a week. We received our funds within probably two to three weeks.

And that enabled us to keep everyone on staff that we had we wanted to make sure that everybody stayed healthy and when business came back we have a full crew of the same people that we had when we started.

It was an honor having President Biden here talking about the PPP loans.

I think was important. I think that the small businesses that may have been afraid to go out and take a PPP loan.

I think this hopefully gave them some incentive to take advantage of that because it really was designed to make sure that small businesses were able to survive.

I love this story about W.S. Jenks and Son. They've been a staple in D.C. since 1866.

So that's 155 years of providing goods and services to support their community.

And so the fact that in their time of need we were able to support them so that they can continue to support their community lets me see that we are truly living up to the Truist purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities.

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