Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton

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Booz Allen Hamilton understands that effecting
far-reaching change that can make the world a
better place often begins at home. Building on
programs that originate at the grassroots level
and engage the skills and passion of its people,
the firm goes beyond providing funds to charitable
organizations to help improve the communities
where its employees live and work.
Booz Allen’s association with charitable organizations
frequently comes from a place very close
to home. Ten years ago, when Senior Associate
Craig Miller was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative
disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS)—better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—
Booz Allen engaged in critical ALS Association
fund-raising efforts. This year, the ALS Association
awarded Booz Allen its inaugural Partnership
for Success Award for the firm’s ongoing
financial backing and its groundbreaking
pro bono work with the association’s signature
fund-raising event, the Walk to Defeat ALS.
Exemplifying Booz Allen’s commitment
to local communities, each year the Colorado
Springs office sponsors the Pikes Peak or Bust
Rodeo, which benefits local military charities
With Booz Allen’s help since 2000, the walk has
become an annual $18 million enterprise involving
150,000 people in 150 cities.
“For us, this is personal, and a way to honor
Craig, who passed away in late 2007. Craig’s Crusaders
has been our team since the first walk,”
says Executive Vice President Ken Wiegand, who
is based in Herndon, Virginia. “ALS is like the
tough challenges we undertake for our clients;
it’s one of the toughest health problems out there.
But we will stay the course until there’s a cure.”
Assisting military personnel
Booz Allen’s connection to the military also runs
deep. For decades, Booz Allen staff have donated
funds to the United Service Organizations (USO),
a group that provides moral support to US military
families throughout the world. The firm has also
contributed its consulting expertise on a pro bono
basis to develop a new strategic, focused approach
for managing the USO’s future growth. Having
launched the plan, the USO is now making significant
progress toward its long-term goals.
Since 2007, Booz Allen has further provided financial
and planning support—and more than
1,200 volunteer hours—for the National Disabled
Veterans Winter Sports Clinic and the National
Veterans Summer Sports Clinic. These organizations
teach adaptive adventure sports to veterans
with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries,
amputations, and visual impairments.
At the winter clinic in Snowmass, Colorado, hosted
by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
and Disabled American Veterans, Booz Allen