The Lending Hands team would like to thank all Option One and HRBMC associates who gave so generously to the Hurricane Katrina relief appeal. “It was never a question of if our associates would donate,” says Kim Denger, who oversees Lending Hands. “They always come through. Our challenge was to find a way to make it as easy as possible for them to give.”

And give you did. In the end, associates made more than $110,000 in donations. Add in a company match of $100,000 and our total contribution to the American Red Cross will exceed $210,000.