"DOING WELL by DOING GOOD"This section of our website is dedicated to highlighting the many good works our readers and their companies do - sometimes as part of a corporate-wide commitment, and sometimes on their own, as part of good citizenship, or simply to 'do good'. If you or your company have any good causes you would like us to report on, and to boost, just send an email with the details... to cthagberg@aol.com Click here to read about the 2009 End of annual Meeting Celebration and Benefit Fountain House:For over 60 years, Fountain House has been helping 'members' who suffer from mental illnesses with social services, education, housing assistance...and meaningful work...work that has enabled thousands of members to return to the mainstream of life...Read about Fountain House, which, since its founding, has become the model for clubhouses around the country, and around the world. Note especially its Transitional Employment Program...and read about a few of the many companies that have used the TEP...and how your own company might benefit. Click here to read about the Fountain House Public Companies and Key Service Providers Rally 'Round a Great Cause...Read how the now annual End of Annual Meeting Celebrations and Benefits support the wonderful work of Fountain Gallery - an artists' cooperative for artists suffering from mental illnesses. Check out the Benefit's sponsoring organizations and look for friends in our pictures of "winners" at recent Benefits. Click here to read about the 2008 Celebration and Benefit The NYARKOA Foundation:Industry veteran Barry Shapiro (who's also a member of our team of Independent Inspectors of Election), and his brother, formed the Nyarkoa Foundation to bring clean water to hospitals and surrounding villages in Ghana. Check out the pictures of their first well. Now, the Foundation is focusing on repairing and sanitizing existing but failed and/or polluted wells as a way to "do more...and do it faster, and more efficiently, with less money." Exactly what OPTIMIZING is all about...and truly a worth cause! Click here to read about the NYARKOA Foundation e-Tree... "Reducing costs while helping the environment...one e-mail address at a time."Click here to read about a program that's been stimulating many investors to give up paper copies of Annual Meeting materials. Click here to read about e-Tree Share Gift USA - Making Shares Make a Difference "An idea that deserves to happen":Read about this wonderful non-profit organization that motivates "small shareholders" to turn tiny holdings into meaningful donations to charity - and makes it easy for them to do so...producing big savings in account-maintenance and servicing costs for U.S. corporations. Click here to read about Share Gift (Article 1) |















