CMI COMMUNITY OUTREACH

“You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” This has been part of CMI’s Community Outreach Spirit for several years and what was true in 2006 is even more meaningful in 2010.

Together, with our associates and because of our valued clients, we have achieved so much. These partnerships have allowed us to substantially expand the list of charities and organizations we contributed to in 2009. We are grateful to have been able to share our blessings with others. While we believe this is the true Spirit of Community, it is our goal to carry this spirit in our hearts by “living the meaning of Christmas” throughout the year. And, this is at the core of YOUR Community – OUR Commitment; CMI makes every effort to always give back to our Community by reaching beyond the walls of CMI to touch the lives of others in a positive way.

• Salvation Army; making Christmas dinners, clothing & toys available to those experiencing hardships in the Portland area
• Sunshine Division; a Portland Community Policing project meeting family’s needs since 1923. CMI participated in two food drives and collected over 2140 pounds of food
• USO; responding to the Fort Hood terrorist attack on our military
• Toys for Tots: CMI ranked in the top 5 companies who gathered toys for this cause
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Homefront America, Inc.; we adopted four families of deployed military and provided them with Christmas gifts
• USO; assisting soldiers to “come home to their kids” ( a reading program to help keep them connected while deployed), Emergency Assistance to families & Operation Phone Home
• Supporting our own deployed Oregon National Guard, Bravo Troop, 1-82 Calvary. We sent Christmas Trees and Ornaments; gifts for 30 in the Platoon, including Christmas Hats, Christmas Stockings and lots of food, clothing and snacks
• Supporting “Mikey’s kids” Oregon National Guard, by sending boxes of clothing and toys to Iraq for distribution to children in Bagdad
• Al Kader Shriner’s Circus, CMI sponsored two events for needy children
• Sponsor of the Great Western Grubfest to benefit families of deployed military
• Sponsor of radio-a-thon to benefit the Salvation Army
• The Citadel Heroes project (The Citadel Military College of South Carolina) by sending gifts four times each year to deployed Citadel Cadets; these are young men and women who interrupted their college careers to serve their country
• Pearl District Association Annual Event
• Again this year we were blessed by the smiling faces, giggles and shouts of joy as we watched 54 children from Royal Family Kids Camp celebrate their birthday at an event we sponsored. These are children from battered and abused backgrounds who were able to be a “kid” for a week and put all their cares behind them
• Royal Family Kids Camp Christmas party. We participated in gift giving to the children
• Boy Scouts of America
• Girl Scouts of America
• CAI Golf Tournament
• Kiwanis Club; revitalizing neighborhoods, organizing youth-sports projects, building playgrounds and countless other projects to help children and families
• Gathering and donating used clothing to needy families
• Lakewood Center for Performing Arts, Lake Oswego
• Volunteered for Street of Dreams
• Contribution of $1 for all Christmas Cards mailed and received to five selected charities
• Charity Auction of all Christmas gifts received by CMI; CMI matches the funds received and then CMI donates these funds to the five selected charities for 2009

(From left to right) Randy McManus, Dan Herzing, Matt Triplett, and Troy Culp from Willamette Landscape.

(From left to right) Elaine Hirth from Landye Bennett Blumstein, Jed Spera from CMI, and Karna Gustafson from Landye Bennett Blumstein

(From left to right) Matthew Smith from Forensic Waterproofing and Dave Schwindt from Schwindt & Co.

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CMI has been recognized by the City of Portland Recycle at Work program for recycling practices and reducing the amount of waste by implementing all of the City of Portland's five recycling steps.

At Community Association’s National Conference, recently held in Las Vegas, NV, CMI’s Brad Atchley was awarded his PCAM (Professional Community Association Manager) designation! This photo shows Brad flanked by CAI President Michael Nagle (l) and Tom Skiba, CAI’s CEO (r). Congratulations Brad!