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Fort Wayne Metals Employees Gather to Pack 100 Breastie Boxes to Benefit Local Patients Fighting Breast Cancer
- Published October 3rd, 2025
Fort Wayne Metals Employees Gather to Pack 100 Breastie Boxes to Benefit Local Patients Fighting Breast Cancer
Nearly 100 Fort Wayne Metals employees gathered to pack 100 Breastie Boxes at its third annual “Pack the Box” event on campus Thursday, Oct. 2. Breastie Boxes, which contain comfort items to help support the emotional support side of a patient’s breast cancer journey, are distributed through Parkview, Dupont, and Lutheran hospitals, Fort Wayne Medical Oncology, and other community outreach organizations.
“What’s really special about this event is that we can have over 100 people participate,” said Evan Wood, Vice President of People & Strategy at Fort Wayne Metals. “Our owner, Scott Glaze, is big on supporting the community, but he wants people to support with action, not just dollars. It also fits with who we are as a company. Our products often end up in life-improving devices and when you talk about breast cancer, you’re talking about people facing life-challenging and life-altering events. To be able to give back in that way—beyond the products we make—is important to a lot of people.”
To further its support of Breastie Boxes, Fort Wayne Metals also collected employee donations for the organization, encouraging its people to wear pink and jeans for a purpose.
“We are not funded by hospital systems,” said Erica Hyatt, breast cancer survivor and Executive Director and Founder of Breastie Boxes. “Because of partnerships with businesses like Fort Wayne
Metals, where you pack boxes and collect dollar bills for wearing pink, money stays in Fort Wayne and any woman or man that walks into one of our hospital systems gets a Breastie Box free and clear. That’s something that we’re very proud of—people don’t have to worry about one more thing when they get a breast cancer diagnosis.”
Metals, where you pack boxes and collect dollar bills for wearing pink, money stays in Fort Wayne and any woman or man that walks into one of our hospital systems gets a Breastie Box free and clear. That’s something that we’re very proud of—people don’t have to worry about one more thing when they get a breast cancer diagnosis.”
Breastie Boxes, a local nonprofit that began packing boxes in October 2022, has gifted nearly 3,000 boxes and raised more than $500,000 for its cause. Hyatt shared that $45,000 of those dollars have been the result of corporate box-packing events like the one that Fort Wayne Metals proudly jumpstarted in 2023. Breastie Boxes distributes approximately 100 boxes to breast cancer patients in the community per month.
About Fort Wayne Metals
A leading manufacturer of precision materials used in life-improving medical devices, Fort Wayne Metals is dedicated to making Northeast Indiana and the world a better place. As committed as we are to supporting our customers’ medical technologies, our more than 1,700 employees are just as committed to contributing to community organizations and causes. Whether it’s providing the world with customized material solutions to support the medical device industry or championing efforts that lift up local communities, we are passionate about making lives better. Learn more at fwmetals.com