ConServe Supports Honor Flight Rochester & Honor Flight Buffalo

ConServe employees, along with the company’s “Matching Gift Program,” donated a combined $8,540 through its “Jeans for Charity” program in July to Honor Flight Rochester and Honor Flight Buffalo.

Honor Flight transports WWII and Korean War veterans, as well as veterans from any era who suffer from a terminal illness, to Washington, D.C. to visit their memorials. Their goal is to take every veteran who otherwise would not or could not go, and who wants to fly.

“On behalf of Honor Flight Rochester we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to ConServe and its employees for this generous donation. This will fund more veterans to visit their memorials in Washington, D.C. at no cost to the veteran. These heroes gave their service to defend our freedoms and we are forever grateful,” said Honor Flight Rochester President Rich Stewart.

“ConServe is dedicated to improving the human condition,” said Mark Davitt, President of ConServe. “We are proud to honor our veterans who have sacrificed so much for our country and will continue to support our active military members as well.”

ConServe also supports veterans through participation in Hiring Our Heroes, a nationwide initiative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, to help veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses find meaningful employment opportunities. ConServe participates in local Hiring Our Heroes job fairs; to date more than 24,000 veterans and military spouses have obtained jobs through this initiative. ConServe is one of more than 1,700 businesses who have pledged to hire 448,000 heroes as part of the Hiring 500,000 Heroes campaign.

About ConServe:

Founded in 1985, Continental Service Group, Inc. (d/b/a: ConServe), has provided accounts receivable management services in the higher education, government and commercial markets. ConServe was ranked as the #1 performing Small Business collection agency on the U.S. Department of Education’s student loan collection contract from 2004-2010. In 2009, ConServe was again awarded a long term contract by the Department of Education.

ConServe has also achieved the ACA International Professional Practices Management System (PPMS) certification. Less than 1% of collection agencies nationwide offer the benefits of this certification to their Clients. This designation is the collection industry’s standard for quality management. ConServe was a recipient of the Rochester Business Ethics Award, listed on the Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest growing companies, named a Rochester Top 100 company 11 times in the last 12 years, named by insideARM.com as the Best Places to Work in Collections and earned the Greater Rochester Quality Control’s Customer Excellence Award. Visit ConServe online at www.conserve-arm.com.

About Honor Flight Rochester:

Honor Flight Rochester – one of 100 established hubs in the national Honor Flight Network – is a not-for-profit, fully-volunteer organization with a goal of taking every World War II, Korean War, or Vietnam War veteran who otherwise would or could not go, to visit and reflect together at Washington D.C. Memorials built in their honor.  With the community’s support, Honor Flight Rochester has – since 2009 – escorted 1,672 Greater-Rochester area veterans on a two-day Honor Flight. This is a free trip for veterans thanks to the continued generosity of the community. For more information, please visit http://honorflightrochester.org/.

About Honor Flight Buffalo

Honor Flight Buffalo was co-founded by Jo-Anne Wylie and Lisa A. Wylie, as well as Charles Dunkle, when they realized the organization’s national office “The Honor Flight Network” had greater than 300 World War II veterans in the Buffalo area waiting to make this journey to see their memorial.

In 2009, Honor Flight Buffalo became an “official” Hub of the Honor Flight Network serving Erie, Niagara and surrounding counties area veterans.  Honor Flight Buffalo was formed in honor and in memory of the Wylie sisters’ Dad S/SGT Robert P. Wylie, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II Veteran and Charter Member of the building of the World War Memorial who never had the privilege of seeing his Memorial. For more information, please visit http://www.honorflightbuffalo.org/.