Did you know that over 23 Million Americans have diabetes?

On October 11th, I will be running a 5k as a fundraiser for Diabetes research for the American Diabetes Association. The mission of the ADA is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. This includes people living with type 1, type 2, gestational, pre-diabetes or anyone who may be at risk.

I will be running with a team of friends, one of whom has a younger sister named Anna with type 1 diabetes. In honor of her, our team name is Anna's Bananas (her sister's nickname).

If you would like to make a donation towards this cause, you can use the following link: http://www.active.com/donate/nwatour/nwatourLCuster.
Thank you for supporting me in this cause.

Lindsay Custer

Keep the Magazines Coming!

This is a message we received from the woman who is sending the magazines overseas for us ...

PLEASE tell your co-workers thank you again for the mags. Tim's unit started receiving mail over 2 weeks ago and there are 180 men and women Marines in his platoon/unit with about 36 to a tent and those magazines ARE getting passed around.

Backpack Drive Results

We received a total of 152 backpack donations for the Backpack Drive for GRACE. Plus, $120 in cash donations. PLUS, the Ivie's matched your donations so we had a total of 305 backpacks to donate!

Thanks to everyone's generous donations GRACE did meet their goal of 500 backpacks. They have promised to send some pictures from the day they distributed them to the kids so we will post those as soon as we receive them.

Congratulations and thank you to everyone that participated!

Magazines for U.S. Troops

Everyone has old magazines at home that either end up in the trash - or hopefully for some in the recycle bin at least. How about putting them to good use? Bring in old magazines - whatever the genre - and Ivie Cares will have them shipped off to troops in Iraq.

Feel free to include any letters of encouragement along with those magazines! Even better - get your kids involved! Have them write letters and draw pictures to include in the package.

Drop off boxes will be in 2 locations in the Flower Mound office:
1st Floor – Cube 102B just inside the entryway in the Client Service area
2nd Floor – On the Ivie Cares’ cart outside of Becky Pearce's office near IT

If you are located in the field and are interested in participating send us a message at IvieCares@ivieinc.com. We will provide you with the details to either have them shipped here to Flower Mound or directly to Iraq.

I Need Your Help: Junior Achievement Bowl-A-Thon

I am excited to be supporting Junior Achievement's economic education programs as a Bowl-a-thon participant.

It is estimated that about half of our young people leave school without the knowledge or foundation required to find and hold a job. The main reason is that they lack hope. Junior Achievement programs show our youth how they can take advantage of the many opportunities that are available to them through the free enterprise system and how to prosper in it.

If you would like to make a donation please visit my website.
For more information on Junior Achievement follow the link to the right under Recommended Links.
Thank you for your help...if you have any questions, call me!

Alessia Andrae