Donors offer guidelines for sharing

Corporate Giving story for The Commercial Appeal

January 23, 2009

Some highly successful Memphis business people met Thursday at the Salvation Army headquarters to talk about how they make decisions to donate their money and time to charitable organizations.

On the panel were Society of Entrepreneur members Dick Barnhart, retired CEO of Barnhart Crane and Rigging; Mike Bruns, president of Comtrak Logistics; Charles Ewing, president and CEO of Ewing Moving Service Inc.; and Bernice “Buzzy” Hussey, owner of Babcock Gifts.

In the audience of more than 30 were representatives of some of this city’s most giving organizations, including the Church Health Center, Junior League, Memphis Leadership Foundation and AGAPE … (read more)