KRT Wire | 12/18/2006 | Red Cross' go-to men combine business, giving: "Red Cross' go-to men combine business, giving
By Jerry Large
The Seattle Times
(MCT)
Business and charity can mix and often do, but it's rare for the balance to tilt so far to the service side of things as it does at American Preparedness.
But the company's president, Jeff Guite, thinks it's business, and especially big business, that ought to take responsibility for the community. Charity isn't about leftovers.
'You have to be hardworking and smart to help other people,' Guite said. 'You can't do it if you're lazy and dumb.'
American Preparedness is run by Guite and Sherman Fantroy, a couple of disabled Army veterans who after years in other businesses decided they wanted to leave a different kind of legacy."
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