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As we’ve said before – behind the data is people. And behind people are ideas that need to be realized and battles that need to be fought. That’s why Altum takes a role in community events that we think will make a difference. We hope you’ll join us in the following:
Helping Hungry Kids
http://www.givingcircleofhope.org
Helping Hungry Kids (HHK), a service program of the Giving Circle of HOPE, was co-founded by Sandy Amato and Connie Laurent-Roy in the summer of 2009. HHK provides food for kids attending local Title 1* elementary schools who may not have enough to eat when school is not in session. HHK is currently provides food packages for 100 kids every weekend for the 2010-2011 school year. Each package contains non-perishable food items sufficient for 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, 2 snacks, 2 fruit cups, milk and 100% fruit juice, at an approximate cost of $7.00 per package. Altum employees in our Reston office pack the food sacks each week and HHK volunteers deliver the packages to the designated elementary school in need and school staff distributes them to identified children before each weekend.
Smart Sacks Program
http://www.mannafood.org/index.cfm?page=smart-sacks
In 2005 the Manna Food Center located in Gaithersburg, MD founded the Smart Sacks initiative which partners Manna, businesses and organizations, and elementary schools. Together we provide the children with backpacks full of kid-friendly food every Friday so they have food on the weekends when there are no school meals to sustain them. The Smart Sacks program currently operates in more than 45 elementary schools, feeding nearly 1,600 children each week. Smart Sacks is a perfect example of how a community comes together to solve a problem. Business and community organizations, Manna, and elementary schools work collaboratively to help children at risk of hunger. Children who participate in Smart Sacks are better able to succeed in school. Teachers have remarked that children come to school on Mondays full of energy that they lacked before participating in Smart Sacks. An unanticipated but welcome outcome of Smart Sacks is that parents of children in the Smart Sacks program are more involved in their children's schools. Smart Sacks is an important component to breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty and provides children with the opportunity to learn and succeed at school. We are proud to say that in September 2011 Altum will begin our third year of packing Smart Sacks for Manna to distribute to Meadow Hall Elementary School in Rockville, MD. Our Bethesda office packs 60 sacks each week and delivers it to the elementary school each Thursday for distribution to the children each Friday.
American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=13941357&pg=personal&fr_id=33704&fl=en_US&et=p5ug4EWO8iolgBbnVv-6kg..&s_tafId=755748
When people come together to make a difference in the fight against cancer, it can have a dramatic effect both on their community and on the disease itself. That’s why the American Cancer Society gives people the power to help fight cancer in communities around the nation with opportunities such as Bike-a-thon, Celebration on the Hill™, and other advocacy and volunteer efforts. The American Cancer Society gives you the power to help in their mission of hope as we work toward a future where cancer doesn’t take the lives of our friends and family. Altum encourages and supports their employees to reach out to the community and make a difference. One Altum employee recently raised over $3000.00 in the 39th Annual Cancer Society Bike-a-thon.
Habitat for Humanity
DC Habitat for Humanity empowers low-income working families to buy affordable, volunteer-built Habitat homes, revitalizing their neighborhoods and strengthening their futures. We are a construction company, using volunteer and AmeriCorps labor, and requiring each homebuyer to invest 300 hours of “sweat equity” helping to build their home and the houses of their Habitat neighbors. This enables us to build professional quality homes at affordable prices. Currently, we are building a new community in the Northeast Boundary neighborhood of Washington, DC. In 2002, we acquired a 4.3-acre vacant parcel of land in Ward 7 from the DC Housing Authority through a $1 land transfer. The community will contain 53 modest, energy efficient homes, each approximately 1,200 square feet with three bedrooms and one bathroom. DCHFH has completed and sold 41 homes on the Northeast parcel, and four more homes are under construction.
On May1, 2010 Altum had the opportunity to work alongside the AmeriCorp volunteers and future Habitat homeowners to help build the last two houses to be sold in this community. It was a rewarding opportunity and a gift to be able to give back to this community.
NIH Children’s Inn Golf Tournament
www.childrensinn.org/site/c.kkI1KiMXIvF/b.2001915/k.9D50/Home_Page_Content.htm
Altum is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the second annual NIH Children’s Inn golf tournament to be held June 1, 2009. All proceeds from the tournament benefit The Children’s Inn at NIH, a private, non-profit family-centered residence for pediatric outpatients and their families at the National Institutes of Health. The Inn was established to keep children with their families while they participate in groundbreaking medical research for serious illnesses at the NIH.
The Inn’s children come from across the United States and 74 countries to participate in leading-edge research that offers hope for serious and life-threatening illnesses that have resisted conventional therapies. Last year, more than 1,400 families stayed at The Inn. The Inn’s mission is to reduce the children’s stress and facilitate their healing by allowing them to remain with their families during treatment. Additionally, there is no charge to families staying at The Inn which helps to ease the tremendous financial burden associated with caring for a seriously ill child.
Manna Food Distribution Center
About Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center provides food to nearly 2,000 households each month, helping the working poor stretch their limited dollars so they can afford a better life. Through its work, Manna Food Center:
- Gives families the opportunity to share their day over a healthy, home-cooked dinner.
- Provides children with the chance to succeed in school by helping ensure their nutritional needs are met.
- Offers strength to neighbors who are ill or elderly.
- Provides a helping hand to people who face temporary hardship or unemployment.
Each year, Manna also provides food at no charge to twenty-five partner organizations, freeing $1 million annually to fund drug rehabilitation, life skills training, child care and shelter.
In early 2009, Altum volunteers assembled boxes, crated 10 cases of peanut butter and prepared 600 servings of food for the Manna Smart Sacks program. + view photos
Association of Government Accountants Sponsorships and Conferences
www.agacgfm.org/corporate/partners.aspx
The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) supports the careers and professional development of government finance professionals working in federal, state and local governments, as well as the private sector and academia. Founded in 1950, AGA has a long history of being the thought leader for the government accountability profession. Through education, research, publications, certification and conferences, AGA reaches thousands of professionals and provides more than 100,000 continuing professional education (CPE) hours annually.
Altum is an AGA Professional Corporate Partner and provides support through sponsorships of events and conferences and through our leadership in the areas of federal financial management and performance management.
March of Dimes March for Babies
www.marchforbabies.org/why.aspx
www.marchforbabies.org/s_team_page.asp?seid=651258
Every year millions of babies are born too early. Some survive and some do not. By participating in the Walk for Babies, Altum helps raise funds needed for care and research so that one day all babies will be born healthy.
Altum’s goal for the 2009 March for Babies held on April 19, was to have every Altum walker raise $200 toward the cause. Altum walked for Aidan Lee Artiles, a relative of Altum employee Wendy Kessell, and for all the other babies who will benefit from the March of Dimes’ work.