During the 2014 WWT National Sales Meeting, John Chambers (CEO - Cisco Systems) challenged me to shave my head for St. Baldrick's and offered a $10,000 donation if I did so.
Rather than just agreeing to shave my head, I launched a $1M Global Community Impact Initiative and challenged our employees to get involved in their local community. WWT would match employee donations up to $500,000 by the end of the year. If employee donations reached $200,000 by our mid-year Corporate Update, I would shave my head.
I am pleased to announce that WWT employees have raised to-date, more than $888,000 for charities across the country, WWT will be donating more than $300,000 to those charities (and still counting!), and on July 17 I fulfilled my part of the bargain, shaving my head at our Corporate Update!
I was not the only one to shave for St. Baldrick's. WWT employee, Jeff Mika, along with his 13 year old son Jack, and many other of Jack’s friends, formed a St. Baldrick's team "6 is a Serious Number" in memory of Jack's friend, Joe, and shaved in March, 2014, raising more than $26,000 and over $50,000 in the past two years they have been involved with St. Baldrick’s to fund childhood cancer research.
Please join us in making a difference in the lives of kids with cancer with a donation to support lifesaving childhood cancer research.
In the time it took you to read this message, another family heard the words 'your child has cancer'. Please help us make a difference.
Sincerely,
Jim Kavanaugh
CEO – World Wide Technology, Inc.