Giving Back
Customer satisfaction is highly rewarding. It is one of the major drivers to excellence for Cadence Regulatory. Helping to bring new medical technologies to market in order to assist patients (like me!) is also a major driver. Working together, we can advance the medical profession and help save lives. But there is still another major driver to excellence. It is the resultant ability to combine our knowledge, resources, and initiative to assist our communities and the world at large.
I pursue a dual approach to “giving back.” One approach is mainly financial. I have long supported global organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies[1] and Kiva.[2] As a Freemason and a Shriner, I have also long supported many of their charitable efforts.[3],[4],[5],[6] The other approach is hands-on service to these and other charitable organizations, including spending days working at local homeless shelters or supporting Habitat for Humanity.[7] I pursue these efforts not because they are inherently critical to Cadence Regulatory’s stated mission, but because they are critical to the mission of me as a person.
In building this website, I searched for an inspiring quote to support this idea, but almost all of the quotes I found were unsubstantiated or paraphrased and had no credible citation. Thus, I decided to write my own: My purpose for existence is not happiness, contentment, or success. It is compassion for all that lives and assistance to those in need.
[3] https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en
[4] https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/