PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pittsburgh-based software firm Confluence is providing Thanksgiving turkeys to 100 area families as part of its Confluence Cares community outreach and service program. Confluence employees and Chief Operating Officer Skip Smith will staff the Northside Common Ministries Food Pantry and give away Giant Eagle gift cards for turkeys on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
“We are proud Pittsburgh is our home, and I am humbled by our employees’ commitment to serving our community,” Smith said. “At this time of Thanksgiving, we pause to give thanks for what we have, and we take time out of our lives to pay forward the kindnesses we have received.”
Confluence was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh with offices in San Francisco, London and Luxembourg. Over 60 percent of U.S. mutual funds operate through the software and service platforms it offers. It has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in Western Pennsylvania for 11 years in a row and is committed to growing as a strong regional employer with a commitment to healthy employees, service values and community outreach.
The turkey drive is being conducted as part of Confluence Cares, an employee-driven grassroots service program. In 2013, employees gave back through toy and food drives, financial donations and volunteer time with organizations including the American Diabetes Association, North Hills Outreach, American Cancer Society, Education Partnership and Gilda’s Club.
Northside Common Ministries is a non-sectarian collaboration of 30 churches working together to provide food and shelter to homeless people in the community. Its food pantry provides a week’s worth of food every month to over 950 Northside individuals and families.
About Confluence
For more than 20 years the global investment management industry has come to trust Confluence to deliver innovative solutions to take the risk out of fund administration. Helping investment management companies gain unprecedented control, Confluence automates every step of the fund administration process—including the collection, creation, confirmation and delivery of investment product data. Results are lower costs, reduced risk, decreased reporting turnaround times and the scalability to automate more processes without additional resources.
Confluence solutions are used by 40 percent of the leading global investment managers, and over 60 percent of U.S. mutual funds. From the Confluence traditional install, hosted and outsourced Unity® platform solutions to our enterprise-grade SaaS enabled Unity NXT platform, Confluence automates critical fund administration and reporting processes—such as regulatory reporting, financial statement preparation and performance reporting. Confluence solutions support a wide array of collective fund investment types – including European domiciled UCITS, alternative investments, traditional U.S. based ’40 ACT mutual funds, and contemporary fund structures such as ETFs.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Confluence serves the international fund industry with key locations in San Francisco, London and Luxembourg. For more information, visit www.confluence.com.