Security Industry Works Together to Help Children in Need
Mission 500, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of children and the communities in crisis, is served by the security community at large with competitors within the industry coming together to serve needy children. At SIA Honors Night, a slide show and speech was delivered by Alan Forman, president and CEO, Altronix and advisory board member of Mission 500, who highlighted some milestones since this organization was launched in the security industry in 2007.
Those milestones include reaching the goal of 1,000 sponsored children and more than 50 individual child sponsors; visits to Mexico, India and Tanzania to participate in specific projects; securing ongoing child sponsorship programs with various security companies and over $400,000 of free media placement with leading security publications including SDM Magazine.