April Baldridge’s never-ending love for volunteerism inspires family, team members

April Baldridge's never-ending love for volunteerism inspires family, team members

April Baldridge, Synovus commercial banker, wants to do more to help others. Her dedication to volunteerism has earned her the Donald D. Howard Heart of the Community Award, given by the Synovus North Georgia division.

Baldridge has a longstanding reputation for helping others.

"A few of my first memories are selling candy bars in grade school to help get supplies for the classroom," she remembers. "I ended up selling the most candy bars and won a really cool telescope."

Since then, she's devoted her time and talent to organizations that help communities and individuals in need. Baldridge lives in Tunnel Hill, Georgia, and volunteers for United Way of Gordon County, Junior Achievement and Levi Circle. When she joined Synovus, she introduced Levi Circle, an organization that supports adoptive and foster families, to her new team and broadened the efforts to help the group.

She's recently been appointed as treasurer for the board of Hope Spur Inc., a northwest Georgia nonprofit focused on raising funds for people who cannot afford mental health treatment, resources or counseling.

Throughout her life, a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quote has served as an inspiration to Baldridge's volunteerism: "If a man is called to be a street sweeper … He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."