Sleeping Outside in a Cardboard Box: My Experience Raising Awareness for the Homeless

How TVG Helped Raise Awareness for the Homeless By Bailie Moore, Senior Account Executive at The Vandiver Group in St. Louis, Missouri Around MLK Day each year, TVG supports a day of service for staff members. Staffers choose a nonprofit and spend the day volunteering at that organization. I kept waking up. I just couldn’t seem Read More

Random Acts of Kindness, Inspired by Dr. King

Random Acts of Kindness: TVG Day of Service By Patty Olsen, TVG Senior Project Manager Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was more than just a single day of giving back to the community where I have lived, worked and flourished. It was an opportunity to model what principled citizenship looks like to my elementary-age Read More

TVG’s 2017 Day of Service: St. Patrick Center

What Are You Doing For Others? TVG Day of Service By Andy Likes, TVG Senior Vice President For more than 20 years, TVG has been giving back to clients in St. Louis and across the country. When you look at dollars and hours donated over that time, our firm and our employees have given more than $3 Read More

Finding Solutions to Violent Crime in St. Louis

Help Reduce Violent Crime in St. Louis By Donna Vandiver, President & CEO TVG employees had a day of community service this year on Martin Luther King Day. Over the past several years, TVG has worked closely with the St. Louis Initiative to Reduce Violence (SIRV) to donate our time and services. Finding Solutions to Read More

Surging Waters: My Community Submerged

Surging Waters: My Community Submerged By Patty Olsen, TVG Senior Project Manager On December 29, 2015, floodwaters started moving into my Eureka community at a rate higher than any previous floods in recent history. As a resident, I was fortunate that my only flood story was spending three days at home on an “Island” with Read More

Open Door, Open Heart

Open Door, Open Heart By Abbey Theban, TVG Assistant Account Executive I remember the day we brought my dog home from the animal shelter. We walked into the shelter—dogs were barking loudly, it was smelly and dimly lit, and as an eight-year-old, I remember feeling very overwhelmed. We walked up to a kennel where a Read More

The Impact of the Flood

By Jesse Selz, TVG Graphic Designer

If you haven’t already heard about the current devastation caused by the historic Meramec River flooding in St. Louis that occurred in the days leading up to the New Year, there are endless numbers of articles and online sources that discuss the details. However, this blog will be focused on a micro perspective of this natural disaster, and the personal impact the floodwaters has had on my family and me. Read more