NEW YORK | W. Thomas Spencer Jr., CLU, ChFC, from Sudbury, Mass., secured a $10,000 grant from the MDRT Foundation on behalf of Seeds of Peace.
Spencer, of Spencer Financial LLC and a 31-year MDRT member, is an active supporter of Seeds of Peace and nominated and endorsed the grant application. Seeds of Peace is a nonprofit organization that empowers young people from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. The MDRT Foundation grant will support the organization’s programs.
This year the MDRT Foundation will award more than $1 million in grant to more than 100 charities. Representing the MDRT Foundation, Spencer presented this grant to Seeds of Peace on July 14 at the Seeds of Peace Camp in Otisfield, Maine.
The MDRT Foundation was created in 1959 to provide MDRT members with a means to give back to their communities. Since its inception, the Foundation has donated more than $23 million in 67 countries around the world and all 50 US states. The majority of these funds were raised by MDRT members from MDRT members.
The MDRT Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Million Dollar Roundtable, The Premier Association of Financial Professionals®. MDRT is an international independent association of more that 39,000, or less than one percent, of the world’s best life insurance and financial services professionals from 491 companies and 87 nations and territories. MDRT members demonstrate exceptional product knowledge, strict ethical conduct and outstanding client service. MDRT membership is recognized internationally as the standard of sales excellent in the life insurance and financial services business.