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Thank you for making the 2008 Community Leadership Awards dinner

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The Invest in Others Charitable Foundation and

InvestmentNews Welcome You to the Second

Annual Community Leadership Awards Dinner

DINNER CO-CHAIRSKandis BatesPresidentInvest in Others Charitable Foundation

Suzanne SiracuseVP / PublisherInvestmentNewsBoard MemberInvest in Others Charitable Foundation

MENTORING EXCELLENCE AWARD PRESENTED BY LEGG MASONJohn Brant, Kipp Brant Drummond & Associates, Inc.Wayne Brumm, Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.Marc Turner, Renaissance Advisory Group, LLC

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD PRESENTED BY ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS, LLCCarl Bailey, Bailey & Beatty Financial Services, LLC

Richard England, Jr., Madison Wealth Management

Marshall Gunn, Jr., Gunn & Company Investment Management, Inc.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERBlake MycoskieFounder and Chief Shoe Giver

TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow

VOLUNTEER TEAM AWARDPRESENTED BY LORD ABBETT & CO.Messick Financial Solutions Chris Messick, Bill Stutesman, Mike Nelson, Gayle Waltman, Kathrine Foster

Northwestern Mutual Financial Network

Martin Capital Management Frank Martin and team

Martin Capital Management, LLP

Larry Rybka and the ValMark Securities TeamValMark Securities, Inc.

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD PRESENTED BY LPL FINANCIALBetty Harris Custer, Custer Financial Services

C.N. “Gus” Petsas, Petsas & Hill, CPAs, Inc.

Elizabeth Verterano, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

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Welcome to the second annual Community Leadership Awards dinner. Thankyou for joining us as we celebrate the outstanding charitable work of membersof the financial services industry—individuals nominated as the most generousadvisors in the nation for selflessly striving to create a better world.

The ground swell of support at last year’s dinner highlighted our sharedhumanitarian involvement and commitment to helping others. The CommunityLeadership Awards dinner is a wonderful expression of this philanthropic spirit,which creates magic in the lives of the less fortunate.

Tonight, financial advisors from across the nation are joined together to supporttheir colleagues and to encourage all of us to continue making a positive impactin our local communities. Each of tonight’s finalists has a compelling story. I hopeyou will take some time to read their stories, which should inspire all of us. Wereceived hundreds of similar stories about advisors and advisor teams—allnominated by their peers in the financial industry—that went above and beyond.The leading honorees will be recognized in four categories: Volunteer TeamAward, Community Leadership Award, Mentoring Excellence Award, andVolunteer of the Year Award.

Tonight you will hear a similar story from our keynote speaker, Blake Mycoskie.As founder of TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow, he has touched the lives of tens ofthousands of children in developing nations by donating Argentine-stylealpargatas to cover and protect the feet of underprivileged young people. Mr.Mycoskie’s story encourages all of us to take steps toward making an imprint onthe world by proving that something as simple as a pair of shoes can foreverchanges a person’s life.

Thank you again for joining us tonight. Your generosity this evening will help tosupport charities associated with the finalists and the work of the Invest inOthers Charitable Foundation, which assists a broad range of charitableendeavors throughout the United States. For additional information on theFoundation, please visit our website at www.investinothers.org.

Enjoy the evening.

A Message from Kandis BatesPRESIDENT, INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Kandis BatesPresidentInvest In Others Charitable Foundation

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Dear Community Leadership Awards Dinner Guests,

Welcome to the second annual Community Leadership Awards.

All of us at InvestmentNews wish to congratulate the twelve finalists on theoutstanding contributions they have made to their communities. We are so proudto be able to honor them all here tonight.

The InvestmentNews and Invest in Others Community Leadership Awards wereestablished in 2007 to recognize and celebrate financial advisors across thenation for exemplifying what it means to be a true community leader. In theSeptember 8th issue of InvestmentNews, we highlight this year’s finalists, notonly to learn more about them and their charities, but also to communicate theirmessage to thousands of other advisors who can be inspired by their stories.

We received over 425 entries for the Community Leadership Awards this year,which was an outstanding response and shows the level of involvement theadvisor community has in changing the lives of others. Narrowing down thedecision to just three finalists per category was extremely challenging. Just likelast year, we were truly moved by the generosity and commitment to thecommunity that all of the finalists have shown.

A special thank you to the Invest In Others Charitable Foundation for theirpartnership and support of the awards program and for sponsoring tonight’s dinner.Their insight into the importance of this award was instrumental in its success.

I would like to thank all the judges who helped InvestmentNews determine thefinalists. They are Dale Brown from the FSI, Kevin Keller from the CFP Board,Nicholas Nicolette from the FPA, Tom Orecchio from NAPFA, Dede Pahl fromIMCA, and Jeffrey Taggart from NAIFA. Their time and thoughtfulness in thisprocess are much appreciated.

Finally, thanks to all of you who are here tonight to show your support for thesewonderful role models within the financial advisory industry. I am sure thisevening will prove to be very inspirational for us all.

We look forward to next year’s program and hope to see you all there. We hopethat tonight’s recognition of the efforts of our finalists and of all nominees willencourage even more advisors to share their stories with us in 2009.

All the best,

Suzanne SiracuseVP / PublisherInvestmentNews

A Message fromSuzanne SiracuseVP / PUBLISHER, INVESTMENTNEWS

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Established in 2006, the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation is aregistered 501(c)(3) charity founded with the mission of encouraging andsupporting the philanthropic and volunteer activities of financial advisors intheir local community.

This mission is achieved through a community-based approach tophilanthropy that seeks to strengthen neighborhoods from within byempowering those who are committed to serving others in theirprofessional and personal lives.

As mentors, volunteers, fundraisers, and leaders, financial professionals lendtheir unique skills and perspectives to the challenges and opportunitiesfacing their neighbors. Invest in Others is proud to support and promotethese efforts to better our world one community at a time.

To honor excellence in philanthropy, the Invest in Others CharitableFoundation established the annual Community Leadership Awards dinner.This event honors financial advisors from across the nation who have beennominated by their peers for both exemplifying great leadership qualities inthe industry and actively volunteering to improve their communities and makea difference in the lives of others. The awards dinner recognizes theseindividuals and the charities they support—and the Foundation makes agenerous contribution to these nonprofit organizations to help advance theirimportant causes.

For more information on the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation, pleasevisit the following Web site: www.investinothers.org.

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Invest in OthersCharitable FoundationMaking a Difference

WE PLANTED A TREE. WE BUILT A HOME. WE MENTORED A CHILD. WE WALKED FOR A CURE.

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Keynote SpeakerBlake MycoskieFOUNDER AND CHIEF SHOE GIVER , TOMS SHOES FOR TOMORROW

Blake Mycoskie redefines the idea of walking in someone else’s shoes.Since founding TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow in 2006, he has donated morethan 68,000 pairs of Argentine-style alpargatas to impoverished children indeveloping nations, including Argentina and South Africa. His efforts havenot gone unnoticed, as he has gained the attention of former President BillClinton, who involved Mycoskie in the Clinton Global Initiative working toend poverty and unify the global community. Outside the political arena,Mycoskie has proven an inspiration to the fashion world as well, havingbeen featured in the pages of Vogue, Elle, GQ and InStyle Magazine.

Mycoskie’s inspiration came after visiting Buenos Aires as a volunteer. In acountry where a child’s livelihood depends on walking barefoot on pollutedand disease-ridden streets, the absence of shoes can have life-alteringconsequences. While in Buenos Aires, he spent countless hours withArgentine shoemakers and returned to the United States as an entrepreneurwith a mission. TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow began with only three interns in aloft office in Venice Beach, California, and has quickly expanded to 300stores worldwide.

Mycoskie often speaks enthusiastically about his journey into the heart ofthe developing world and into the hearts of consumers who participate inhis effort to provide shoes for those less fortunate. His “one for one”program ensures that for every pair of alpargatas sold, one pair is donatedto a shoeless child. Mycoskie saw the opportunity to greatly impact otherpeople’s lives and through his visionary philanthropic spirit, he is doing thatevery day.

Mycoskie’s life and work prove that by supplying a pair of shoes to anindividual, a life can be dramatically changed, and that by fulfilling a basicneed in the life of an individual, we can change their world.

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PLATINUM AWARDS SPONSORS

DonorAcknowledgements*

BRONZE BENEFACTOR SPONSORS

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Allstate Financial

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Commonwealth Financial Network

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Financial Dynamics

Financial Planning Magazine

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Karen Morstad & Associates, LLC

KBS Capital Markets Group

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THANK YOU.

The Invest in Others Charitable

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the following sponsors who

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Leadership Awards Dinner as

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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARDBarry GlassmanCharity: The Brain Tumor Society

Barry Glassman launched a mission two decades ago to help fund the search for a braincancer cure. Since then, the senior vice president for Cassaday & Co. in McLean, Va., hasbecome the driving force behind the annual Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers Race for Hope.The race has grown from a small, local event to one that attracts national support and,in 2007, raised $1.5 million.

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARDGerald StridCharity: Project H.O.M.E.

Gerry Strid spends time every week on the streets of Philadelphia, ministering to thehomeless. His volunteering is done through Project H.O.M.E., a nonprofit group thatfocuses on outreach to the homeless community. Mr. Strid, a managing director for Wachovia Securities in Berwyn, Pa., also led planning and fundraising efforts for thegroup’s 2006 gala, which raised $1.5 million — the group’s largest ever fundraiser.

MENTORING EXCELLENCE AWARDKen ClarkCharity: Young Life South Coast

Ken Clark began volunteering 12 years ago for the local chapter of Young Life, whichmentors teens who might otherwise fail to reach their full potential. Several years ago, theindependent financial planner in Laguna Niguel, Calif., stepped in as director of the group.Under his leadership, the group went from providing 1,000 yearly volunteer mentoringhours to more than 10,000 hours a year.

VOLUNTEER TEAM AWARDArnerich Massena & Associates StaffCharity: Irvington Elementary School

Employees at Arnerich Massena & Associates Inc. in Portland, Ore., spend more than 1,200hours each year mentoring young children. By overseeing before and after-school groups atIrvington Elementary School that nurture students’ reading and math abilities, along withproviding summer enrichment programs focusing on math, science, and writing, employeesof the firm reach an average 220 students at the school annually.

2007 HONOREES

Barry Glassman

Gerald Strid

Ken Clark

Arnerich Massena & Associates

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Dale E. Brown, CAEPresident & CEOFinancial Services Institute

Evan CooperSenior Managing EditorInvestmentNews

Kevin R. Keller, CAEChief Executive OfficerCFP Board

Nicholas A. Nicolette, CFP®

ChairFinancial Planning Association

Tom Orecchio, CFA, ChFC, CFP®

ChairmanNational Association of Personal Financial Advisors

Dede PahlExecutive DirectorInvestment Management Consultants Association

Jim PaviaEditorInvestmentNews

Suzanne SiracuseBoard MemberInvest in Others Charitable Foundation

Jeffrey J. Taggart, CLU, ChFC, LUTCFPresidentNational Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPAWARDS JUDGES

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THANK YOU.

We would like to extend our

gratitude to the judges who

gave their valuable time to the

2008 Community Leadership

Awards. Selecting only 12

finalists from more than 425

entries was incredibly

challenging. For a second year

in a row, we would like to

recognize their efforts and

once again say, “thank you.”

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Tonight’s award honorees will receive a stunning,unique, and individually created sculpture thatreflects their commitment to supporting othersin need. Appropriately symbolized by someonehelping another rise above their circumstances,the “United” sculpture is crafted from naturallypreserved bogwood found in the ancientboglands of Ireland.

This extraordinary creation from the Celtic RootsStudio brings a timeless and unique treasure tolife. Lain hidden and naturally preserved formore than 5,000 years, bogwood has beenfound in the roots of prehistoric trees, waiting tobe discovered and molded into stunning worksof art such as the “United.”

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MENTORING EXCELLENCE AWARD

John BrantCharity: Boys & Girls Club of Ventura

Wayne BrummCharity: Sport Youth Foundation

Marc TurnerCharity: The School at Church Farm

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Carl BaileyCharity: Connecticut Quest for Peace

Richard England, Jr. Charity: Latin American Youth Center

Marshall Gunn, Jr. Charity: Give Kids The World

VOLUNTEER TEAM AWARD

Messick Financial SolutionsChris Messick, Bill Stutesman, Mike Nelson, Gayle Waltman, Kathrine FosterCharity: Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD)

Martin Capital ManagementFrank Martin and teamCharity: DreamsWork, Inc.

Larry Rybka and the ValMark Securities TeamCharity: Mission Jamaica/Westhaven Children’s Home

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD

Betty Harris CusterCharity: Wexford Ridge Neighborhood Center /Lussier Community Education Center

C.N. “Gus” PetsasCharity: Bay Area Rescue Mission

Elizabeth VerteranoCharity: Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPAWARDS FINALISTS

THE “UNITED” SCULPTUREPresented to tonight’s award honorees

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John BrantLike other financial advisors, John Brant often has many balls in the air. Butevery Thursday evening, he teaches others what it really means to juggle.

A regional vice president for Kipp Brant Drummond & Associates Inc. inVentura, Calif., Mr. Brant has spent the last 10 years holding a weeklyjuggling class for kids attending the Boys and Girls Club of Ventura, anaffiliate of Atlanta-based Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

Through his juggling instruction, Mr. Brant has enjoyed both forgingrelationships with his students and watching them blossom as they learnan enviable craft. Several times a year, he and his students participate inlocal parades to show off their new-found talent.

“What they really get out of it is self-confidence and self-esteem,” Mr.Brant explained. “And that’s a huge thing.”

In addition to his juggling instruction, Mr. Brant has served as a boardmember for the club for more than 15 years and chaired an annualfundraising campaign for the last decade. Also, to celebrate his 50thbirthday, he rode his bicycle 500 miles and raised $5,000 for the club. Forhis 60th birthday, which is Jan. 13, he plans to cycle 600 miles and raise$6,000.

Although Mr. Brant is involved in other local nonprofits, the Boys and GirlsClub holds a special place in his heart. Over the years, he has mentoredand taught juggling to hundreds of kids.

“I will always be part of the Boys and Girls Club,” Mr. Brant said. “Duringthe time I spend there, I get so much more back than what I give.”

MENTORING EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALISTS

Presented to an advisor who has been an active mentor to a young

adult for at least two years and has demonstrated qualities as a role

model and “champion for youth” in his or her community.

John Brant

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Wayne BrummThe way Wayne Brumm sees it, basketball is a microcosm of life. And as avolunteer coach for the Sport Youth Foundation in Merrillville, Ind., he putshis philosophy to practice.

“What we try to teach these kids and hope to leave them with is aroadmap to life-long success,” said Mr. Brumm, CFP and branch managerin Crown Point, Ind., for St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Raymond JamesFinancial Services Inc.

For the last 11 years, Mr. Brumm has spent much of his time away fromwork serving as a basketball coach for 15 to 17 year olds at the foundation.His participation, however, extends beyond courtside. Among his duties:Driving kids to and from practice or tournaments, washing uniforms,tutoring, soliciting donations for the group, organizing travel arrangementsfor competitions, and talking with college coaches interested in recruitinghis players.

Under Mr. Brumm’s direction, his team arguably has become one of the topamateur traveling basketball teams in the country. Last month, he said, theteam snared third place in the Lake Buena Vista, Fla.-based AmateurAthletic Union’s national competition. In his players’ division were 154teams from across the country.

But the rigorous training and game schedule are worth it for the kids, mostof whom come from gang-ridden communities and chaotic home lives.Over the last 14 years, the foundation has watched 92.3% of its players goon to college.

“The organization was started to get inner-city kids into college, throughbasketball,” Mr. Brumm said. “Some of these kids aren’t listening to theirparents — if they even live with them —or their preachers or schoolprincipals, but they’ll listen to their basketball coach.”

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Marc TurnerWhen Marc Turner was 26, he accepted a part-time job as basketball coachat the Church Farm School in Paoli, Pa. It wasn’t long before he realized theposition provided him with the chance to do for others what had beendone for him.

“There were people who had taken an interest in me, for whatever reason,and had decided to teach me about business, life, and more,” said Mr.Turner, president and owner of Renaissance Advisory Group LLC in ChesterSprings, Pa. “I’m just trying to do the same thing.”

Sixteen years later, Mr. Turner continues his role as coach on and off thecourt. Except for a few years during which he was an assistant basketballcoach at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., Mr. Turner has committedhimself to the Church Farm School’s basketball players, many of whomtruly need a role model.

Mr. Turner makes sure his players understand the importance of givingback to the community. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coastin 2005, Mr. Turner mobilized 50 boys from the school to help the localExton Region Chamber of Commerce collect goods for hurricane victimsand pack five tractor trailers worth of goods to be shipped south.

After a day spent loading trailers, the boys were told their shift was over andthey could leave. But when they looked at the mounds of goods remainingto be packed, they announced, “We’ll leave when Coach Turner leaves.”

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Carl BaileyAfter nearly a decade of financially supporting the Redding, Conn.-basedConnecticut Quest for Peace, Carl Bailey decided in 2005 to gain a first-handunderstanding of the group’s passion for sending humanitarian aid toNicaragua.

In simple terms, he wondered why Nicaraguans would leave everythingthey know to come to America and in what many U.S. citizens wouldconsider horrible circumstances: residing in crowded apartments andworking multiple jobs.

These immigrants “can be living here in deplorable conditions, so I wonderedhow bad could things be for them to leave everything behind to come here,”explained Mr. Bailey, president of Bailey & Beatty Financial Services LLC inDanbury, Conn.

His curiosity led to a three-week trip to the slums of Managua, Nicaragua.Mr. Bailey’s experience answered his own question. He was dismayed todiscover dire poverty, abominably depressing conditions, widespread druguse, and crime.

Since that visit, he has increased his support of the Quest for Peace byproviding numerous amenities for the people of Managua. Among his giftshave been computers, a library stocked with more than 1,800 books, anathletic field, repairs to the infrastructure at a local school, and daily milk forabout 500 children in need of daily nutrition. He also has taken U.S. dentiststo the community to serve patients who have no access to dental care, andhas raised nearly $300,000 to fund his projects.

Additionally, he established the Bailey Family Nicaragua Fund to help studentsfocusing on Latin American Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn.

“I suppose I could have picked anywhere [to help],” Mr. Bailey said. “Butwe’re making a difference in thousands of lives [in Nicaragua] instead of justtens of people here.”

Children in Managua, Nicaragua

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALISTS

Presented to an advisor who has served as a volunteer at a single, local

nonprofit organization for at least two years and has made a contribution

considered to have a “lasting impact.”

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Richard England, Jr.

Richard England, Jr.Richard England, Jr.’s mastery of Spanish led to something he never anticipated.

Interested in using his Spanish skills to help others, Mr. England beganserving as a mentor 15 years ago to homeless youth through the LatinAmerican Youth Center in Washington, D.C. It wasn’t long before hisvolunteerism attracted attention and he was asked to serve on the center’sboard. Today he’s known as a “board member for life.”

“I’ve been on other nonprofit boards, and I’ve never found one that’sbetter in terms of the enthusiasm and energy involved,” said Mr. England,CFP and senior wealth advisor for Madison Wealth Management inBethesda, Md.

The Latin American Youth Center serves more than 4,000 Latino, African-American, and multicultural low-income youth and families through avariety of multi-lingual, culturally sensitive programs that encourage thingslike academic achievement, career skills, community involvement, andhealthy habits to avoid risky behaviors.

For the last 10 years, Mr. England has served as the board’s treasurer,which has enabled him to help with business office practices, preparationof the center’s budget, and guidance with audits. He also has been aleading donor to the organization. When the center conducted a $3million capital campaign for a new facility, Mr. England contributed andmade sure family and friends did the same until the last dime was raised.

Most recently, Mr. England came up with the idea to create a $5 millionfund to help ensure the center’s financial health and stability. Through support from his family foundation and a personal gift, the fund waslaunched.

“It really makes me feel good to help those who don’t have the same[advantages] that many of us have,” Mr. England said.


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Marshall Gunn, Jr.Marshall Gunn, Jr. already was an active volunteer in his hometown ofJacksonville, Fla., when he wanted to learn more about a nonprofit grouplocated two-and-a-half-hours away.

With the help of a client who was the founder of the far-away group,called Give Kids The World Inc. in Kissimmee, Fla., Mr. Gunn visited thenonprofit and was hooked.

“I immediately fell in love with it,” said Mr. Gunn, CFP and president ofboth Gunn & Co. PA and Gunn & Co. Investment Management Inc. inJacksonville.

Give Kids The World is a sprawling 70-acre resort that provides aweeklong, all-expenses-paid vacation to children with life-threateningillnesses. The children and their families receive tickets to local themeparks and attractions, and meals and accommodations at the village. Sinceits inception in 1986, the nonprofit has hosted more than 88,000 familiesfrom all 50 states and more than 65 countries by working in conjunctionwith wish-granting organizations.

Despite his existing volunteerism with several Jacksonville-area charities,Mr. Gunn’s reaction to the resort led to his immediate involvement. Notonly has he been serving as a board member, but also as current chairmanof the board of trustees, and he’s poised to become chairman of the boardof directors next May.

Moreover, every few months he taps his list of potential volunteers andorganizes a weekend trip to the resort. While there, he and othervolunteers dedicate their time to helping kids experience a magicalvacation by serving meals and ice cream, hosting rides on the carousel,celebrating birthday parties, and driving trams, among other things.

“Our standard is [that a family’s experience] 99.5% exceeds expectations,”Mr. Gunn said.

Marshall Gunn, Jr.


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Messick Financial SolutionsChris Messick, Bill Stutesman, Mike Nelson, Gayle Waltman, Kathrine Foster

Chris Messick considers himself no different from others who have heardterrible stories about clients’ or colleagues’ family troubles and feelcompelled to help.

But in 2005, when he learned that Sam, the four-year-old child of a client,had been diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he was movedto action.

“I first thought I’d write a check, but then thought, ‘that’s too easy,’”recalled Mr. Messick, CFP and wealth management advisor for MessickFinancial Solutions in Dallas. “I decided it was an opportunity to serve thefamily and do something special.”

The result, five months later, was the first Sam’s Family Fun Day, a fundraiserfocused on providing fun for kids and their families through entertainmentlike magic shows, face painting, obstacle courses, and more.

Mr. Messick’s entire investment team administers the organizational andfinancial responsibilities to make the once-a-year fundraiser happen. Allmembers are on the Sam’s Day board of directors, and each membercontributes time to make sure the fundraiser is successful.

“This [disease] has been really hard for me to get my arms around,” Mr.Messick said. “It’s not just terminal, but it’s also slowly debilitating.”

Proceeds from Sam’s Day go to Middletown, Ohio-based Parent ProjectMuscular Dystrophy, a national organization that aims to improve the lives ofthose with Duchenne through research and advocacy.

On Oct. 25, the fourth Sam’s Day will be held. The fundraising goal is$250,000. It’s a great leap from the $38,000 raised in 2005. Last year, theevent raised $140,000. Not surprisingly, Sam’s Day has become the largestgrass roots fundraiser for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.

Chris Messick (center), Gayle Waltman, Bill Stutesman, Mike Nelson, Kathrine Foster

VOLUNTEER TEAM AWARD FINALISTS

Presented to a team of advisors and/or office staff for their collective

involvement of at least three years as volunteers for a charity in

their community.

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Martin Capital ManagementFrank Martin and team

After serving as a board member for a variety of nonprofit groups in hiscommunity, Frank Martin decided a decade ago that his view from the ivorytower was causing him to miss what was going on in the trenches.

So he began mentoring at a local elementary school whose students comefrom disadvantaged backgrounds.

“I went into it thinking I’d bring light into the darkness, but the oppositehappened,” said Mr. Martin, senior partner at Martin Capital ManagementLLP in Elkhart, Ind. “I found out that I didn’t know what it really means tosurvive at the lowest rungs of society. So [the students] became my teachers.”

The experience motivated Mr. Martin to launch DreamsWork Inc. in 2001 as away to help underprivileged children. Other Martin Capital employees havebeen involved since its inception by serving as mentors or providing help inareas like computer consultation, office setup, or general guidance.

DreamsWork selects up to 20 new fourth-graders each year to participatein the program. From fourth grade through their high school graduation,participants receive weekly one-on-one mentoring, along with enrichmentactivities such as museum trips, wilderness experiences, and communityservice. The top 10 students from each class are then eligible for aDreamsWork college scholarship.

Of the original five students selected for the program during its first year, fourare now in college.

“It’s all about helping kids and their families break the cycle of povertythrough education and through learning character traits that contribute tobeing a responsible citizen,” said Mr. Martin.

DreamsWork Inc.


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Mission Jamaica / Westhaven Children’s Home

Larry Rybka and the ValMark Securities TeamAt the encouragement of an acquaintance in 2004, Larry Rybkaaccompanied a group to Jamaica that was giving away 650 wheelchairs tosome of the country’s disabled citizens. When just 12 chairs were remaining,someone mentioned that a local orphanage could probably use them.What Mr. Rybka discovered at the orphanage, called the WesthavenChildren’s Home, broke his heart.

“Crippled kids started crawling out of cottages,” said Mr. Rybka, presidentand CEO of ValMark Securities Inc. in Akron, Ohio. “The ones who [had useof their legs] ran to us just because they wanted to be held.”

Mr. Rybka’s then-eight-year-old daughter, who had accompanied him there,pointed out that more children were stuck in cribs in the cottages. It was atthat moment that Mr. Rybka realized how much more help could beprovided to the orphanage, tucked away in the village of Copse, located inJamaica’s western mountains.

Since then, Mr. Rybka has organized a yearly trip for ValMark’s registeredreps and their families to the orphanage. Most of the home’s 80-plusresidents have been abandoned by their families due to the children’sphysical or emotional disabilities. ValMark employees, along with their kidsor grandchildren, arrive ready to do physical labor and provide support toboth the orphanage’s residents and its workers.

Among the gifts that the orphanage has received through Mr. Rybka’s tripsare a centralized kitchen and wash facility, a special ed teacher, hospice carefor terminally ill children, financial support to the Westhaven board, and ahandicapped-accessible playground.

“It started out as a one-time visit, but it’s taken on a life of its own,” Mr.Rybka said.


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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD FINALISTS

Presented to an advisor who is nominated for service as a volunteer

board member or in a leadership capacity and has made an outstanding

contribution of at least five years and served “with distinction.”

Betty Harris Custer

Betty Harris CusterWhile driving her daughter to ballet lessons more than 20 years ago, BettyHarris Custer was saddened when she passed a low-income housingcomplex. She wondered what hidden talent was lurking undiscovered inthe neighborhood due solely to its residents’ inability to finance extras likedance lessons.

“I realized that not only are the children missing out on opportunities, butwe as a society are missing out, too,” said Ms. Custer, managing partnerfor Custer Financial Services in Madison, Wis.

Her concern led to her involvement with the Wexford Ridge NeighborhoodCenter, located in the heart of the community that had caused herdistress. The center provides services such as academic support, instructionin arts, health and fitness, community service, and leadershipdevelopment.

Ms. Custer began helping in various capacities that ranged from workingin the center’s food pantry to financially supporting the center.

Five years ago, she and other volunteers began planning a facility toreplace the three cramped, renovated apartments in which the group hasbeen operating for nearly 30 years. When it became clear that a capitalcampaign would be critical to raising the $4.5 million needed to build thenew center, Ms. Custer agreed to lead the charge.

Much of her motivation arose out of love for a friend, Jane Buffet, whohad succumbed to cancer. Ms. Custer knew that Jane, a tireless advocatefor the center, would have eagerly volunteered to chair the campaign.

“So I agreed to do it,” she said. “And I truly feel like Jane has been sittingon my shoulder along the way.”

In September 2007, ground was broken on the new 12,000-square-footcenter, dubbed the Lussier Community Education Center.

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C.N. “Gus” PetsasAbout 14 years ago, C.N. “Gus” Petsas was invited to a crime-riddenneighborhood in Richmond, Calif. In the midst of boarded-up storefrontsand vacant lots, he found a place that quickly became his passion: The BayArea Rescue Mission.

“There are lots of nonprofits doing superficial work in the community, butthis [group] is out there making a difference,” said Mr. Petsas, a financialadvisor and president of Petsas & Hill, Certified Public Accountants Inc. inRichmond. “We’re proud of what we do and how we take care of ourpeople.”

Since that initial visit, Mr. Petsas has been involved in numerous aspects ofthe mission, which provides emergency shelter, meals, drug-recoveryprograms, spiritual counseling, job-skills training, youth intervention andmobile outreach. About 3,000 people are fed daily through the mission’sshelter and its warehouse; more than 200 people each night have a bed tosleep in because of the group.

In addition to serving as a board member for the last 14 years, five ofwhich were spent as chairman, Mr. Petsas offers hands-on help. He’s doneeverything from serving meals to the hungry and assisting with toygiveaway programs at Christmas to loaning his financial expertise to thegroup and arranging for one of his clients to donate a building to themission.

One of Mr. Petsas’s greatest joys is seeing the transformation in addictswho enter the mission’s drug recovery program, which boasts an 85%success rate. Many of them show up with wild eyes and a sense ofhopelessness; a year later, he said, they’re smiling.

“It’s amazing,” Mr. Petsas said. “The mission transforms people from theinside out.”

C.N. “Gus” Petsas

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Elizabeth VerteranoMany volunteers would be delighted to see growth in a community servicethey helped to launch. But not Elizabeth Verterano, CFP.

“Our goal has always been to put ourselves out of business,” explained Ms.Verterano, a founder of the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County in New Castle,Pa. “We’ve hoped the community … would progress to the point thatpeople wouldn’t be raping or battering women and children and our serviceswould no longer be needed.”

Ms. Verterano, a financial advisor in New Wilmington, Pa., for Minneapolis-based Ameriprise Financial Services Inc., began her crusade to battledomestic violence in 1979. Not only was she interested in advocating forwomen, but a local report revealed her community’s domestic violenceproblem.

“I grew up at a time when many doors were closed to women,” she said.“As a young woman, I encountered [such] situations. But here were womenin a far worse position than I had ever been.”

With Ms. Verterano’s leadership, by 1981 a crisis hotline and emergencyshelter had been launched, staffed entirely with volunteers including Ms.Verterano. Now the shelter also offers transitional housing, counseling, courtand medical advocacy, prevention education, and intervention training.

Ms. Verterano’s commitment has never wavered. She continues to serveon the board and has championed fund raising efforts, mentored women,and helped establish an endowment fund intended to move the agencyfrom governmental funding to self-sufficiency.

She also is vocal about her conviction that domestic violence should beviewed as more than just a women’s issue.

“We’ve had victims of sexual assault as young as a few months and as old aswomen in their 70s,” she said. “I believe that everyone has a responsibilitytoward helping to end domestic violence.”

Elizabeth Verterano


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