Ingram Micro Associates Raise Record Funds at 17th Annual East Coast Charity Golf Tournament

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Ingram Micro Associates Raise Record Funds at 17th Annual East Coast Charity Golf Tournament

Aug 29, 2012 (Marketwire via COMTEX) --Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) and its associates once again showed their commitment to the local Buffalo community by raising more than $250,000 at the distributor's 17th Annual East Coast Charity Golf Tournament. The event, which benefitted five local charitable organizations, was held earlier this month at The Links at Ivy Ridge in Akron, N.Y. "Our annual golf tournament reflects on the longstanding Ingram Micro tradition of giving back to the communities in which we work and live," said Tom Bamrick, executive director, east and global sales, Ingram Micro North America. "The annual outing is a fun way to bring our associates and business partners together in support of local charities. When companies and communities work closely together for a good cause, it can have a huge impact, encouraging a spirit of wellness." With the help of Ingram Micro business partners and sponsors, the tournament awarded five local charities with donations ranging from $20,000 to $40,000. Those charities included: The Anthony V. Mannino Foundation will use the funds to financially assist young adults, ages 18-34, while they are undergoing cancer treatment.  Cradle Beach will use its donation to replace a company van that transports disabled children participating in their camps. Danceability will replace dance floors and purchase accessories for those in its "Sensory Rooms" program that serves both adults and children with special needs. Gerard Place will renovate its gymnasium to make it a safer place to have children participate in character building activities that are part of its housing program for homeless single parent families. Theatre of Youth will renovate its theatre and improve its sound system at the location where more than 50,000 children participate and see plays each year. The 2012 Ingram Micro East Coast Charity Golf Tournament drew 148 golfers, including Ingram Micro executives, associates, customers and vendors, as well as more than 50 associate volunteers. The event was sponsored by 35 of Ingram Micro's strategic vendors and manufacturers including Add-On Computer, Cisco, D-Link, Ergotron, HP, Intel, Juniper Networks, MaintenanceNet and Wells Fargo. Ingram Micro also held a silent auction to raise additional funds for the local charities. At the annual awards ceremony, Marty Battaglia, senior director of sales for Ingram Micro and the event organizer for the past seven years, praised the generosity of both Ingram Micro associates and the distributor's vendor partners, who together have raised more than $1 million for local Buffalo charities over the past few years. "Ingram Micro and its associates take great pride in being a part of the Buffalo community and are honored to help our local charities make a difference in the lives of those in need," says Battaglia. For more information about Ingram Micro's community relations activities, visit the company'sCorporate Social Responsibility page. More information about Ingram Micro is available at www.ingrammicro.com. To learn, see and hear more about Ingram Micro online, follow the distributor on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/IngramMicro; Twitter at www.twitter.com/IngramMicroInc; and YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/user/ingrammicroinc. About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

Self-Insurance Complicates Deal on Birth Control

Excerpt from an article in The New York Times
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Self-Insurance Complicates Deal on Birth Control 

By KATIE THOMAS

The Obama administration thought it had found a way to ease mounting objections to a requirement in the new health care act that all employers — including religiously affiliated hospitals and universities — offer coverage for birth control to women free of charge.

It would make the insurers cover the costs, rather than the organizations themselves.

But the administration announced the compromise plan before it had figured out how to address one conspicuous point: Like most large employers, many religiously affiliated organizations choose to insure themselves rather than hire an outside company to assume the risk.

Now, the organizations are trying to determine how to reconcile their objections to offering birth control on religious grounds with their role as insurers — or whether there can be any reconciliation at all. And the administration still cannot put the thorny issue to rest.

“We’re all kind of waiting and seeing,” said Jim Liske, chief executive of the Prison Fellowship, a Christian charity that insures itself and objects to offering the morning-after pill to its employees.

The administration has remained mostly silent on how self-insured institutions will be treated, other than to say that the details will be worked out in meetings with religious leaders in the days and weeks to come.

“This policy will be developed collaboratively so that the ultimate outcome works for religious employers, their workers and the public,” an administration official said Wednesday.

But some expressed skepticism that any satisfactory solution could be reached. “That’s quite a trick,” said Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director of “pro-life activities” at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has been among the most vocal critics of the birth control mandate.

“Putting the obligation on the insurer and not the employer doesn’t help much if they are the same person,” he said.