As Commonwealth house workplace employees and advisors rely down the times to a brand new 12 months, we’re pausing to replicate on our giving again efforts in 2019. Past exceeding enterprise milestones and welcoming new faces into our fold this 12 months, Commonwealth’s dedication to philanthropy is one thing we’re particularly pleased with. Serving the communities the place we reside, work, and go to is not only a part of our core values, it’s a mirrored image of Commonwealth’s spirit of indispensable service, too.
In honor of the season of giving, we’ve rounded up 12 memorable moments from this previous 12 months of giving again
1) Chemo Caps for Youngsters. Commonwealth’s Waltham house workplace acquired a particular go to from a nurse at Boston Kids’s Hospital for World Most cancers Day in February. She got here to gather 100 hats knitted by Commonwealth employees and associates as a part of our Chemo Caps for Youngsters program. This homegrown initiative was began in 2009 to assist youngsters address hair loss brought on by most cancers remedies. With on-site knitting and crocheting workshops and involvement far past our house workplace, we’ve donated hundreds of caps up to now.
2) The HOPE Heart. Whitesell Monetary Group, LLP, of Speedy Metropolis, South Dakota, held its first annual chili cook-off fundraiser to learn the HOPE Heart, an area nonprofit that gives a drop-in day middle to these residing in poverty and with out houses. The February fundraiser raised much-needed donations for the middle, supporting its mission of offering essential companies like laundry and storage amenities, in addition to advocacy and mentoring packages.
3) The Nashville Meals Venture. Commonwealth’s Enterprise Expertise convention in Nashville, Tennessee, gave attendees a chance to lend a serving to hand to the Nashville Meals Venture. Advisors and employees participated in making ready balanced meals and snacks for native households in want, rolling up their sleeves to cut, slice, and prepare dinner donated meals. And we didn’t cease there! Along with making ready meals, volunteers helped construct planting house within the Nashville Meals Venture’s new group backyard plot.
4) Suppose Pink. Homegrown initiatives like a paint evening and a household picture day helped us increase cash for the Ellie Fund and the Gloria Gemma Breast Most cancers Useful resource Basis throughout Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month.
5) Nickel from Nicole. World Wealth Advisors of Dallas, Texas, held its second-annual volunteer occasion in service of Nickel from Nicole, a nonprofit began in reminiscence of an area teen who misplaced her life in a automobile accident. The group’s mission is to advertise protected driving to teenagers and their dad and mom. Volunteers put collectively “nickel playing cards” that encourage younger drivers to tape a nickel to their automobile’s dashboard as a reminder to drive safely.
6) San Diego Seashore Cleanup. Over on the West Coast, Commonwealth’s San Diego workplace took Commonwealth Cares’ Significant Could to the seaside for a day of giving again with San Diego employees, household, and associates. Our volunteers teamed up with Surfrider Basis San Diego, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to the safety and delight of ocean and seaside ecosystems, and San Diego Coastkeeper to scrub up considered one of California’s iconic surf and solar spots, Ocean Seashore.
7) Relay for Life. Midwest Monetary Group as soon as once more sponsored the Lafayette County Relay for Life crew, which raised greater than $40,000 for one of many American Most cancers Society’s marquee fundraising occasions.
8) Residence Base. Half health problem, half pledge drive, members of Commonwealth’s Compliance crew held a push-up competitors to boost funds for Residence Base, a joint program from the Crimson Sox Basis and Massachusetts Normal Hospital. With $0.10 pledges for each push-up, a pair of our Compliance workers pressed on in assist of the group devoted to therapeutic the invisible wounds of warfare for veterans and their households. As well as, 13 of our Commonwealth teammates—together with associates from our sister agency Advisor360°—proudly participated within the annual Run to Residence Base.
9) Aware Alliance. Commonwealth’s Nationwide Convention in October introduced collectively advisors, company, house workplace employees, and valued companions for camaraderie, studying, and giving again. At this 12 months’s occasion held in Aurora, Colorado, volunteers packaged greater than 10,000 nutritious dried soup meals for Aware Alliance. This motion of artists, musicians, meals makers, and music lovers has a mission rooted in placing meals immediately within the arms of kids and households in Colorado and all through the U.S.
10) Padres Pedal the Trigger. Impressed by a employees member whose youngster is at present battling most cancers, our teammates from each coasts put their cardio prowess to the take a look at with Padres Pedal the Trigger, an occasion held in San Diego’s Petco Park. Eight volunteers took half, together with Joni Youngwirth, managing principal, apply administration. The San Diego crew ran and biked, elevating their coronary heart charges and hundreds of {dollars} for the trigger! The proceeds from this occasion will fund life-saving most cancers analysis tasks regionally.
11) Undertake-A-Household. For greater than 20 years, Commonwealth has teamed up with the Waltham Boys & Women Membership to assist brighten the vacation season for native households. This 12 months, we additionally “adopted” two households from REACH, an area group that assists households struggling financially as they take care of the results of home violence.
12) The Walker College. Commonwealth’s Advertising and marketing crew flexed its artistic muscle tissue to spark some vacation magic by adorning and stuffing 70 Christmas stockings and present baggage for youngsters and youths staying on the Walker College over the vacations. The Walker College is a nonprofit behavioral well being group situated in Needham, Massachusetts, that provides a spot of security and stability for youngsters in disaster.
Holding the Good Going
The very best half? This year-end wrap-up contains solely a fraction of all the nice deeds executed, cash raised, and hearts warmed by our group’s dedication to giving again. Sustain with our advisors, house workplace employees, and associates as we attempt to do much more in 2020 by following our charitable group, Commonwealth Cares, on Twitter at @CommCaresOrg.
