Giving Back
February 2016: growth[period] is proud to support the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS), a non-profit with over a century of experience providing financial assistance and educational resources to members of the Navy and Marine Corps and their families. NMCRS was founded in 1904 by a group of Naval officers, wives of Naval officers, and civilians who felt that there was a lack of formal, organized assistance available for Navy widows and orphans in need of financial aid. The Society soon expanded beyond this original mission and began providing healthcare services and eventually educational assistance for Navy and Marine Corps servicemen and their families.
NMCRS works hard to provide effective client service in a consistent, compassionate manner, with the goal of helping clients improve their personal financial skills and encouraging individual financial responsibility. The Society has a team of over 3,000 volunteers operating out of nearly 250 offices, and in 2014 alone they provided $48.5 million in need-based, interest-free loans and grants to 62,000 sailors, Marines, and their families.
December 2015: Volunteering at DC Central Kitchen is a wonderful way to give back over the holidays! growth[period] staff were happy to spend a morning preparing healthy meals to be delivered to local homeless shelters, transitional homes, and non-profit organizations!
DC Central Kitchen prepares 5,000 meals a day to local organizations in need, and is a national leader in reducing hunger through recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise. The Kitchen runs a number of programs, including:
- Food Recycling Program – turns leftover, surplus food into healthy meals to be distrubuted throughout the region
- School Food Program – provides balanced meals for thousands of local, low-income schoolchildren
- Healthy Corners Program – distributes fresh produce and healthy snacks to corner stores in DC food deserts
- Culinary Job Training Program – trains unemployed, underimployed, previously incarcerated, and homeless persons for careers in culinary service
November 2015: growth[period] is proud to support the Barnes Foundation, which was established in 1922 with the mission of promoting advancement of education and appreciation of fine arts and horticulture. The Foundation owns over 2,500 objects, primarly works of art by Post-Impressionst and early Modern artists such as Paul Cezanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Foundation’s collection also features works from the American masters, African scultures, Native American ceramics and jewlry, and antiguities from the Mediterranean region and Asia, in addition to the Barnes Arboretum, which contains over 2,000 varieties of trees. The Foundation was conceived as a school, rather than a museum, and hosts educational programs throughout the Philadelphia community, as well as online.
October 2015: growth[period] is proud to announce that we support the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund! This non-profit organization provides support to US military personnel and their families, and since its inception in 2000 has raised over $120 million for veterans, servicemen and women who have been injured in combat, and families of those who have been lost in service. The Fund has grown rapidly since it was founded, and in 2007 launched the Center for the Intrepid, a state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center that serves military personnel who have been severely wounded. Following the opening of this Center, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund then opened the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), which provides care and support for veterans affected by traumatic brain injuries. The NICoE also conducts research, tests new protocols, and provides comprehensive education and training to providors, patients, and family members, to raise awareness of and advance treatment for this devastating condition.
October 2015: growth[period] is proud to announce that we participated in a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) Light the Night Walk in Reston Town Center. LLS is the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research, finding cures, and ensuring access to treatments for blood cancer research, and currently has over 300 active research projects related to advancing cancer treatments. LLS holds Light the Night Walks across the country to raise funds to support research and care for people battling with cancer, and proceeds go towards advancing LLS’s mission: to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myelomia, and to improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Participants in the walk typically raise an average of $250 prior to the event, then come together for an evening of music, entertainment, and camaraderie as they walk, carrying paper laterns, and demonstrate their support in the fight against blood cancers.
October 2015: growth[period] is proud to support the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC), which has protected over 252,000 acres of natural land since it was founded in 1932. WPC was the first conservancy to be founded in Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to restoring watersheds and preserving natural habitats. The organization is perhaps best know for preserving Fallingwater, the iconic house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, but is also responsible for conserving approximately 50% of all the land currently protected by land trust organizations in Pennsylvania. Every year, the WPC partners with over 12,000 volunteers, as well as community organizations and businesses, to plant and manage over 100 gardens and 20 greening projects across western Pennsylvania.
September 2015: growth[period] is pleased to announce our support for Hadassah’s international Walking Program, Every Step Counts, which raises awareness and funds to combat heart disease. The Walking Program is simple: participants monitor the number of steps they take each day and upload them to Hadassah’s Walker Tracker, and watch their avatar advance from Hadassah’s headquarters in New York to the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. Funds raised through this challenge support medical care and research at the Hadassah Medical Organization, which was founded in 1913 with the goal of bringing American-style medical care to the Middle East.
September 2015: growth[period] is proud to announce our continued support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), a non-profit dedicated to finding cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma and to improving the quality of life for patients and their families. LLS was founded in 1949 and is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society has 64 chapters across the globe, and has contributed over $600 million for research on blood cancers since its inception.
August 30, 2015: growth[period] is proud to support the SSG Matthew Pucino Memorial Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to continuing the legacy of Staff Sergeant Matthew Pucino by providing for the physical and emotional needs of wounded soldiers and their families. The Foundation provides assistance for travel to and from The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, and has provided for rehabilitation needs as well as for less visible emotional needs such as PTSD, depression, and traumatic brain injury.
2014: growth[period] is pleased to extend our support to the Alzheimer’s Association National Capital Chapter, one of the 70+ chapters serving communities across the US. The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in care, support, and research for Alzheimer’s, and is dedicated to eliminating the disease by advancing research, providing and enhancing care and support, and reducing the risk of dementia by promoting brain health.