Point Of Light Annual Community Event While in office, President George Herbert Walker Bush called on the nation’s volunteers to aspire to be “A Thousand Points of Light” by rededicating their efforts to make the communities in which we live brighter. In this vein, we at McCarthy Grittinger Weil Financial Group (MGWFG) have instituted our own ‘Point of Light’ award given annually to an individual or individuals who we would like to recognize for their positive efforts for the good of our Milwaukee community. A donation of $1000 is made by our financial planning and investment advisory firm to the recipient’s charity of choice. The selection criteria is to identify a worthy recipient(s) from among those who have a direct association to our independent investment advisory firm, such as a client, advisory committee member, referral source or a member of our own MGWFG Anxiety Removal Team ® . Past recipients of this award include Kathie Daily for her 25 years served as public relations coordinator for sisters of the Divine Savior, Mary Rose for empowering African young women through education, Jan Lennon for her tireless work on behalf of the MACC Fund, Bob and Laurel Kult for their grandson’s Spencer’s Fund, Avis Haasch and Pat Spoerl for their efforts with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI Greater Milwaukee), and Bob Sowinski for the National MS Society and the Wisconsin Seed School.
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Point Of Light Annual Community Event While in office, President George Herbert Walker Bush called on the nation’s volunteers to aspire to be “A Thousand Points of Light” by rededicating their efforts to make the communities in which we live brighter. In this vein, we at McCarthy Grittinger Weil Financial Group (MGWFG) have instituted our own ‘Point of Light’ award given annually to an individual or individuals who we would like to recognize for their positive efforts for the good of our Milwaukee community. A donation of $1000 is made by our financial planning and investment advisory firm to the recipient’s charity of choice. The selection criteria is to identify a worthy recipient(s) from among those who have a direct association to our independent investment advisory firm, such as a client, advisory committee member, referral source or a member of our own MGWFG Anxiety Removal Team®. Past recipients of this award include Kathie Daily for her 25 years served as public relations coordinator for sisters of the Divine Savior, Mary Rose for empowering African young women through education, Jan Lennon for her tireless work on behalf of the MACC Fund, Bob and Laurel Kult for their grandson’s Spencer’s Fund, Avis Haasch and Pat Spoerl for their efforts with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI Greater Milwaukee), and Bob Sowinski for the National MS Society and the Wisconsin Seed School.
Since the Point of Light Award began in 2005, over $15,000 has been contributed to area charities.
History of the Point of Light Award
The inaugural event held at Wisconsin Club in conjunction with 10-year anniversary of McCarthy Grittinger Weil Financial Group. Since then, this annual fall event has been held at the Wisconsin Lutheran College Schwan Performance Hall. Over the past seven years, upward of 1,000 people have attended this free community event. Each year an award recipient is chosen, keynote speaker lined up and charities chosen to support with a monetary gift. Here is a snapshot of the Point of Light Community Event through the years:
2005 Award Recipient: Jan Lennon
Keynote Speaker: John T. McCarthy, Founder McCarthy Grittinger Weil Financial Group
Charities Supported: MACC Fund – Childhood Cancer
2006 Award Recipient: Bob & Laurel Kult Keynote Speaker: Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee
Charities Supported: Spenser’s Fund – CHIN Congenital Heart Network, Archdiocese of Milwaukee Relief Funds.
2007 Award Recipient: Pat Spoerl & Avis Haasch
Keynote Speaker: Mike Gousha, TV Journalist Charities Supported: NAMI – National Alliance of Mentally Ill, MACC Fund, St. Ann Center
2008 Award Recipient: Bob Sowinski Keynote Speaker: John Gurda, Milwaukee Historian Charities Supported: National MS Society, Lakeside St. Amelian/Lakeside
2009 Award Recipient: Mary Rose
Keynote Speaker: Mark Green, Former Ambassador Charities Supported: St. Ann Center Cameroon Fund
2010 Award Recipient: Kathie Daily
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frank Wilson, Medical College of Wisconsin Oncologist Charities Supported: School Sisters of Notre Dame, Medical College of Wisconsin – Cancer Center
2011 Award Recipient: Larry & Nancy Maloney (with their adult children Shawn and Tim)
Keynote Speaker: Kathleen Gallagher & Mark Johnson, Co-Pulitzer Prize Journalists Charities Supported: Special Olympics, Wisconsin Humane Society, Ronald McDonald House Charities
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