Small Business CEOs Raise Big Bucks for March of Dimes

Cynthia Driskill, CEO of CDG, has shown that small businesses can work together to achieve big things. Preliminary results from the April 27th March of Dimes WalkAmerica fund raiser have put CEOs Walk the Walk, the team of small business chief executives they organized, into the winners’ circle. Their team stands alongside teams from companies like Bank of America and Vought Aircraft as one of the “Top 25 Dallas Teams,” a prestigious roster of the most successful fund raisers for the March of Dimes in the Dallas area.  Their team also raised the largest amount of walker dollars in the North Texas division.
 
Driskill, a newcomer to the March of Dimes North Texas Division Board of Directors, felt that small businesses were under-represented among the March of Dimes’ major contributors. She decided to change that by inviting CEOs of companies with revenues of $3 million or more to join together. Seventeen other CEOs accepted Driskill’s challenge and the team succeeded in raising $23,800.
 
Besides CDG’s Cynthia Driskill, team participants included CEOs Adrienne Beam, Insite Productions, Charlie Tusa, Tusa Office Solutions, David Spurlin, Microwave Transmission Systems, Don Hanratty, Optimance, Drew Clancy, Publishing Concepts, Greg Carr, Carr Law Firm, Keela Narramore, Team Builders, Larry Burgess, Helmsman Financial Partners, Larry King, KGA Group, Linda Crawford, Delta Dallas, Lois Melbourne, TimeVision, Matt Fossen, Viking Capital Group, Inc., Ed Rankin, PeopleSolutions; Rex Kurzius, Resulte, Rollie Waters, Waters Consulting Group, Tom Sadler, Executive Press, Valerie Freeman, Imprimis,  and Ziggy Pflaster, Zimports International.
This is the first year of what Driskill says will be an annual event. “I envision this growing larger each year and spreading to other locations around the country,” Driskill said. Driskill added that their team’s goal for next year is to have 250 CEOs and to raise $250 thousand.
 
The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies. More information is available on the March of Dimes Web sites at www.marchofdimes.com and www.nacersano.org.
 
About CDG

CDG is a Dallas-based consulting firm specializing in human resources information systems for companies with 1,000 or more employees. CDG helps its clients get maximum return on their investment in advanced personnel, payroll and benefits systems, including CSS HRizon, eLabor.com, Genesys, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ProAct Technologies, SAP, SmartStream and UltiPro. The company serves large- to mid-size organizations nationwide across all industries including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Associates, J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, Neiman Marcus and Wyndham Hotels. CDG and President Cynthia Driskill have received many awards, including the Ernst & Young 2000 Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year, Working Woman Magazine’s National General Excellence Award, the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals’ Business Ethics Award, and the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2001 Small Business Person of the Year. For more information, visit www.cdg-inc.com.