The Marshall-Teichert Group Community Involvement
As you are probably aware, our business - with what is most often Monday through Friday out-of-state travel - makes it difficult to participate in many activities… Yet our Team Members still manage to donate time to charitable organizations. Below is just a sampling of the causes, organizations, and community efforts to which our staff donate their time and resources.
AS A TEAM: Standard practice with our larger project teams is to collect the toiletries provided during our weekly hotel stays. Throughout the project, these accumulated goods are donated to local abused women's and children's shelters. Also, MTG is a stickler for proper meeting protocol and as a team, assess fines for such infractions as showing up late for a meeting, forgetting to turn off one's cell phone, etc. At a project's end, the monies collected from these fines are also donated to local shelters. During one particular project, the Project Team was able to collect and donate $400 to a local shelter in Oklahoma.
Colleen Bodvig, who works remotely in Central Iowa, was witness to the depth of the devastation in the Midwest caused by the Iowa Floods of 2008. She donated both time and resources toward the recovery and clean-up in Palo – a small community near Cedar Rapids, IA, that was particularly hard hit, with about 98% of its homes affected by the flood waters. She also donated time to the Cedar Valley Humane Society to help care for the 1,000 pets that were made homeless by the floods of 2008.
Alex Buehler has hosted a visiting Christian missionary from South Africa who was visiting to attend an annual church mission conference. Alex also helps with the House of Prayer Church's annual fundraising event to set up and run the Vacation Bible School for children in the community. He also volunteers at an annual American Indian Mission Conference to help raise funds and provide native tribe missionaries with tools and money to continue ministering to their tribal groups.
Brian Smith, director of MTG’s Energy Industries practice, participates annually in the American Diabetes Association’s Tour de Cure. Tour de Cure is a series of fund-raising cycling events held in 40 states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association by supporting research to prevent and cure diabetes as well as programs to improve the lives of those affected by diabetes.
