Dedicated Financial GBC‘s 2021 charitable impact included feeding approximately 500,000 children and contributing more than $250,000 to charitable causes that are important to the company’s team members.

“Social responsibility has always been at the forefront of our company culture,” Shawn Smith, CEO of Dedicated Financial GBC, said. “As a faith-based company, Dedicated was built on the ideal of putting people before profit. Leading with our values has brought our company growth and employee excellence from day one, and giving back is an integral part of who we are.

“The following is just one example of what we do: Through a multi-year partnership with Feed My Starving Children, Dedicated has now donated more than 1.5 million meals to children across the globe, including half a million in 2021 alone. Initially, we donated one meal for every account that was collected by our specialists. Over time, we have increased this metric and added several additional seasonal and event-driven donations.”

In addition to supporting Feed My Starving Children, Dedicated Financial GBC provided more than $250,000 to support several other organizations, including Restavek Freedom, Create MPLS, Elevate Micro Loans, Thorn, Gold Star Moms, Healing Haiti, Proud Rescuers of PR, Love Life Now, Cradle of Hope, the Slipka Foundation, Man Up Club, the University of Minnesota Foundation, the Stories Foundation, Cookies for Kids Cancer, Movember and KT’s Sunshine Foundation.

“The organizations that we support are important to our individual team members, and what’s inspiring is that, as a company, every one of us gets on board to show support when a team member suggests a worthy cause,” Smith said. “As a team, we are using perhaps the most negatively stereotyped industry in the world to demonstrate that any business — even a collections company — can be a force for good.”