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.
Jim Trice, Chairman and CEO of MTG is heavily involved in various conservation groups and committees: For six years, he chaired Islamorada Florida’s Near-Shore Water Regulation Committee, and is currently a Trustee and the Founder of the Islamorada Fishing and Conservation Trust, a public charity. He is also a member of the United States EPA No-Discharge Zone Implementation Committee, as well as a member of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC). Jim is a board director and former president of Bonefish & Tarpon Unlimited. Jim has also been very active in the development of the Everglades National Park 20-year General Management Plan and co-developed Alternative E for the National Park System. In addition, he has written and contributed several articles to leading recreational fishing conservation publications. Jim is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Don Hawley Foundation, a charity whose fundamental purpose is to disperse gifts to needy individuals who are connected with the Florida Keys fishing industry. He is Chairman of Youth Fishing for Islamorada’s Fishing Club, in addition to serving as the Marine Conservation Chair of its Board of Directors. Jim also remains active in his church (Island Community Church), including the annual Islands Seafood Crunch outreach dinner and the Thanksgiving Outreach Dinner where Jim and his wife, Sherri, lead the effort to prepare and deliver over 500 individual meals to needy folks in the Florida Keys.
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.
Gregg Messel devotes both time and resources to: Henry’s Fork Foundation, a nonprofit, member-based organization founded in 1984 to preserve and protect the unique qualities of the Henry's Fork watershed located in eastern Idaho; Montana Council of Trout Unlimited: Montana Trout Unlimited's mission is to conserve, protect, and restore Montana's world-class coldwater fisheries and watersheds; HOPA Mountain, which works to expand and enhance community-based opportunities for youth and adults; Friends of the Library at Montana State University; Friends of Gettysburg, a national leader in battlefield landscape preservation, land protection, monument restoration, and education; and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which promotes the preservation and protection of the Greater Yellowstone region.
Mike Johnson and his wife have been contributors to the Christian Children’s Fund for over 20 years.
