Global Connections Employees Raise Funds For Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center
August 20, 2010
Thomas Eddy
For the third consecutive year, employees of Global Connections, Inc. (GCI) (www.exploregci.com), a nationally respected travel club, helped to raise money to benefit Quest To Walk, an exercise-based spinal cord injury recovery center founded by one of its employees.
Global Connections staff members, vendors and company friends aided the non-profit facility through a week of corporate fundraising events, culminated by the Hospital Hill Run, Kansas City’s oldest half-marathon and Quest To Walk’s largest fundraiser of the year. More than a dozen Global Connections employees participated in the race as Team Global, generating over $5,000 in donations. This team was the largest charity group running in the race, which included more than 120 runners.
Additional events organized by Global Connections’ employees – including a bake sale and hot dog “grill out” – raised over $575. The majority of the money collected will help purchase equipment and supplement out-of-pocket fees for patients of the Quest To Walk spinal cord injury recovery center.
The Overland Park, Kansas facility was co-founded by GCI’s Vice President of Sales Thomas Eddy after he suffered a stroke in June 2005, caused by a blood clot in the spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Today, four certified therapists and trainers serve about a dozen patients at a time. Patients from outside the Kansas City area come for a trial period of several weeks and receive a training program, videotape and instructions to manage the program back in their hometown.
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