Partners for a Cause

Snapshot: The Lazy Volunteer

Telecom Brokerage Inc.’s Ken Mercer and Cbeyond’s Dana Woll perfect their baggo tosses at the Toss for Tots event.

Joining Tomlin on the board are D.J. Fioretti from X4 Communications, Ian Kieninger from Avant Communications, Katie Else and Shane McNamara of CDW and Dallas Tomlin of AAOS.

Dave Henke of Chicago Paramedic, Keith Tomlin of XO and Bob Welker of Verizon show off the gorgeous Toss for Tots baggo trophies.

In addition to ongoing volunteer efforts, The Lazy Volunteer’s main event is a “Toss for Tots” baggo tournament held each fall to benefit Children’s Memorial Hospital Cancer Research Center in Chicago. (Baggo is a kind of beanbag toss game.) This year’s event was sponsored by XO Communications, X4 Communications, Telecom Medic, Global Crossing, Bandwidth.com, Level 3 Communications, Avant Communications, BlackBerry, US Signal, iTEMize Technologies, Shoot Photography, Wells Fargo, State Farm, Netwolves, Action Seratoma and PAETEC.

The event raised approximately $15,000 in 2008 and about $25,000 in 2009.

“It sounds so cliché,” said Tomlin, “but if everyone got involved in a charity they were passionate about even once a year, we would all be a lot better off.”