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Corporate Philanthropy
At Integrated Solutions Management, we are extremely passionate about the charitable causes that we support with both our time and financial resources. Members of the ISM family are actively involved with the following organizations:
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is one of the world’s premier pediatric cancer research centers. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other deadly diseases through research and treatment. During its 50-year history, St. Jude pioneered the integration of research and care, allowing discoveries in the laboratory to turn quickly into effective treatments for desperately ill children.
St. Jude research ranges from fundamental discovery-focused basic science in our sophisticated laboratories to innovative clinical trials of promising new treatments. Current studies include work in cancer genomics, pharmacogenomics, clinical oncology, gene therapy, bone marrow transplantation, cancer biology, genetics, developmental neurobiology, drug discovery and development, influenza, cancer survivorship, biostatistics, computational biology, infectious diseases, immunology, blood disorders and pediatric AIDS.
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Doug Rezabek, Director of Marketing, completed the St. Jude Memphis Marathon in December 2012. He and his wife Christy led a fundraising team of more that 30 runners, competing in various events, that raised over $25,000 for the hospital. Doug's step daughter, Lakelee, is a patient at St. Jude. Their fundraising team for the St. Jude Marathon Weekend is aptly named "Lakelee and the Blastomas."
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Bridges to Community
Bridges to Community organizes and facilitates international cross-cultural service trips for volunteers to live and work in materially poor communities. Currently focused on work in Nicaragua, this year Bridges to Community expects to take nearly 1,000 volunteers in over 50 groups to participate in development projects with our community partners.
The purpose of these trips is to help volunteers see how a vast majority of the world's population lives, by living in a materially poor community, meeting people with a different way of life, and sharing in the effort of making real changes in their community -- by building a family a house, helping dig a community well, assisting with health workshops, or any of a number of other projects.
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Marty Burke, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, has been to Nicaragua four times with Bridges to Community, most recently in January 2010.
John Soles, Senior Management Consultant, has been to Nicaragua three times, also most recently in January 2010.
Bill Banks, President, joined the Bridges trip to Nicaragua for the first time in 2010.
Click here to see the photo gallery from the January 2010 trip.
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The Breast Cancer 3-Day
Thousands of women and men come together, each raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund. Then they take their commitment to end breast cancer one step further and walk 60 miles over the course of three days.
Eighty-five percent of the net proceeds of this event go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Every advancement in breast cancer research, treatment, education and prevention in the last 25 years has been touched by a Komen for the Cure grant.
The remaining fifteen percent of net funds goes to the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund to provide a permanent endowment for ongoing support of breast cancer initiatives. |
Bill Banks, President, has completed four Breast Cancer 3-Day events -- two years providing event support as a volunteer and two years as a walking participant.
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Aging Solutions
Aging Solutions, Inc. serves central Florida with the Office of Public Guardianship located in Hillsborough County, Pasco County, and Pinellas County on the West Coast of Florida
and Brevard County on the East Coast of Florida.
The Office of Public Guardian, Inc., (OPG) serves adults with mental and/or physical disabilities as their court-appointed legal guardian when they are incapable of managing some or all of their affairs.
The Office of Public Guardian, Inc., was established to act as a substitute decision-maker for those persons who are functionally impaired to the extent that they require the protection of court intervention. The OPG provides quality public assistance in the form of guardianship services to vulnerable adults adjudicated incapacitated who have no family, friends, or resources to obtain a private guardian. |
Rob Cribben is a major benefactor to Aging Solutions, Inc., where his wife Tamara Cribben is both the Executive Director and CEO.
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The American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was the first humane society to be established in North America and is, today, one of the largest in the world. The organization was founded by Henry Bergh in 1866 on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and respectful treatment at the hands of humans, and must be protected under the law.
Headquartered in New York City, the ASPCA maintains a strong local presence with programs that extend the anti-cruelty mission across the country. The ASPCA is a privately funded 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, and proudly boasts more than 1 million supporters across the country.
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Eric Silverstein, Senior Governance Architect, volunteers regularly -- walking, feeding, and bathing animals -- at local ASPCA shelters in Tampa and St. Petersburg, FL.
He also spent time in Gulfport, MS following hurricane Katrina at a standby shelter helping displaced animals.
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