Giving Back to our Communities
Serving our communities and helping others in need is a core TerpSys belief and business value. Of course, we've repeatedly been recognized for our efforts related to community service, and we appreciate that honor - but in the end, we don't do it for the recognition. We do it because it's the right thing to do.
Under our "3-Plus-1" giving structure, TerpSys supports the same three non-profit organizations every year:
- The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation,
- The National Capital Area Alzheimer's Association, and
- For Love of Children
One additional non-profit organization, chosen from employee nominations, changes annually. Our "Plus-1" entity for 2007 is the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
But "giving back" at TerpSys goes far beyond writing checks. We also:
- Collect food and clothes for emergency shelters
- Build homes with Habitat for Humanity
- Send volunteers to the D.C. Special Olympics
- Donate toys for needy children every holiday season
Our generous staff makes this possible. In 2006 alone, they put in almost 1,500 volunteer hours, donated over $100,000, and help raise another $100,000. TerpSys provides quiet encouragement via paid volunteer leave and a business structure that promotes active involvement in community service.
And incidentally, TerpSys is priviledged to support a number of customers dedicated to some pretty noble causes. Therefore, we take our responsibility to support them just as seriously as they take their varied and praiseworthy missions, including curing cancer by 2015, promoting world peace and ending hunger. We like to think that that's a kind of "community service" as well.
Coming together as a company - and as family - TerpSys reaches out to help.
Who we have worked with:
- The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- The National Capital Area Alzheimer's Association
- For Love of Children (FLOC)
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- Habitat for Humanity
- Children's Inn at NIH
- So Others Might Eat (SOME)
- The American Red Cross
- Head Injury Rehabilitation Referral Services, Inc. (HIRRS)
- Keep Montgomery County Beautiful - Adopt-A-Road Program
- Corporate Volunteer Council
- Capitol Children's Foundation
- The Ronald McDonald House

