Cotton Candy and Corporate Citizenship; SAS and Partners Team Up for Triangle Nonprofits.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2003 Tigers, elephants, horses and even alligators were on stage Saturday at the RBC Center Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference in Raleigh. Ringling Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . and Barnum & Bailey was in town, and several special guests were in attendance thanks to the generosity of SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. and company partners Zencos Consulting and The Delivery Partnership. SAS teamed with the organizations to make the day special for patients from Duke Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. , residents of the Agape agape In the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans and their reciprocal love for God. The term extends to the love of one's fellow humans. The Church Fathers used the Greek term to designate both a rite using bread and wine and a meal of fellowship that included Place and clients of Life Experiences Inc. Each nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. received tickets to one of three Saturday performances, food and drinks and circus souvenirs, and saw "the greatest show on earth" from the SAS box. The attendees could also take advantage of Ringling Bros.' "three ring adventure" before the shows, in which visitors to the circus are able to meet with performers on the circus floor. Dr. Philip Rosoff of Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center said the day was meaningful to the three families who attended from Duke Children's. "When cancer strikes a child, it affects the entire family and our approach to treatment involves brothers and sisters and parents as integral members of the health care team," said Dr. Rosoff. "The companies made it a special day for the entire family, allowing very special children and their families a brief respite RESPITE, contracts, civil law. An act by which a debtor who is unable to satisfy his debts at the moment, transacts (i. e. compromises) with his creditors, and obtains from them time or delay for the payment of the sums which he owes to them. Louis. Code, 3051. from the difficult and challenging road they follow." Shelley Mitchell of SAS' Partner Programs organization originally had the idea for the special day because she wanted to find a different way to engage SAS partners. "We work with our partners on the business level every day," said Mitchell. "By teaming up with them outside a work setting, I believe strengthens the relationships. The added benefit of doing good for the community made it that much better." David Septoff, Principal of Zencos Consulting, one of the partner organizations sponsoring the event, said, "It is easy to get lost in the daily activity of doing our business. Events like this help us to remember other important things in life." Life Experiences, a Research Triangle-based nonprofit, offers specialized facilities, training and employment for adults with disabilities, enabling them to gain employment and social skills. Eleven Life Experiences clients attended the afternoon performance at the RBC Center. Residents of the Agape Place attended the evening circus show. The organization provides short-term transitional shelter Transitional shelter is any of a range of shelter options that help a person or population displaced by conflict or natural disaster until they return to permanent accommodation. for homeless families in a large house in the Oakwood district of downtown Raleigh. Mary Madenspacher, executive director of Life Experiences, said the outing allowed for a day of enjoyment outside the clients' daily work environment. "I haven't been to the circus in many, many years and had forgotten what a fun, festive fes·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or appropriate for a feast or festival. 2. Merry; joyous: a festive party. atmosphere it is," said Madenspacher. "To see it through the eyes of the employee clients was a real treat. They loved the animals, clowns
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Loretta Schlatzer, SAS' Director of Partner Programs, said the effort was indicative of the organizations' business relationship. "SAS Partners support SAS in both our business and community endeavors. This activity was rewarding for all involved," said Schlatzer. About SAS SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 39,000 sites -- including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For more than 25 years, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). |
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