PENTICTON, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Long-Haggerty Robertson LLP will be donating 100% of profits back into the community. The Penticton CPA firm has started the Long-Haggerty Robertson Community Foundation to support the Community through a variety of efforts including growing the current contributions of the firm’s annual Tax Season Foodbank Drive and Toy/PJ Drive that each raised over $4300 in their 2nd run, and supported local foodbanks, SOWINS, OSNS and other local organizations in their fundraising efforts. The Foundation will support youth, those with disabilities and minority groups with workplace experience and educational opportunities. The firm already supports a diverse and inclusive team and the Society will create more opportunities as it grows. Along with providing a safe and progressive workplace, the Foundation will provide bursaries to support attendance at local educational facilities and extend the ‘business of the month’ program to support small businesses in Penticton and surrounding communities.
Jane Long-Haggerty, Managing Partner of Long-Haggerty Robertson and winner of the CPABC Early Achievement Award for her professional accomplishments and community support, says the intention was to make the firm itself non-profit, however a non-profit society is not an allowable structure under the current bylaws of CPABC (something she hopes will change one day), but that the creation of the Foundation of which all profits can be donated, achieves the same goal, just a longer way of getting there. “Our hope is that other professional organizations will step-up and help lead the way for change. Together we can make our communities a better place: less ME, more WE” says Long-Haggerty.
Kelly Robertson, the Robertson of Long-Haggerty Robertson and current board member of the Okanagan College Alumni Association, sees firsthand the importance of providing opportunities for everyone to learn and grow, either in furthering education or in developing key workplace skills. “We get to experience firsthand the excitement of sending someone to school that may not otherwise be able to afford it, or the smiles on the faces of giving a person with varying abilities the chance to work in a safe environment that is flexible to their needs. You can’t put a price on that” says Robertson.
The Foundation is a registered society and working on obtaining charitable status to be able to issue tax receipts for donations. An opening fundraising event being planned for the Foundation will take place later this summer.
