Community Involvement

Kiva

S&A is sponsoring an event with TIPS (The Ivy Plus Society) for Kiva on May 15th 2010. To attend the event, please register through our partner TIPS

About Kiva:
Kiva is the world’s first online micro-lending website.  Kiva was created to help the world’s working poor help themselves to alleviate poverty.  Kiva serves entrepreneurs in the US and internationally by providing small business loans to entrepreneurs in need. Since 2005, more than 430,000 people have used Kiva.org to fund over $120 million in loans to help micro-entrepreneurs build businesses to improve their lives.  The most amazing part is that it’s not charity, but a loan.  So, when loans get paid back, Kiva lenders can reuse funds to help someone new.  Kiva helps entire communities succeed – Kiva entrepreneurs impact their communities by creating new jobs, and strengthening local industries, from agriculture to green energy. Kiva creates a ripple effect that truly is a sustainable way to grow small businesses and fight poverty.  

Siemer Family Foundation

Siemer & Associates proudly supports the Siemer Family Foundation.

S&A Supports MyHappy.com, a social business designed to promote the dissemination of scientific research concerning human happiness. According to one study, unipolar depression (as opposed to bipolar depression which is often more physiological in nature) accounts for 11% of the world's population. Other studies have found that, measured in Disease Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), unipolar depression will be the world's 2nd greatest disease burden and the greatest disease burden in high income countries by the year 2030. Siemer and Associates believes in the old maxim that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure & therefore founded MyHappy.com in order to help promote the dissemination of happiness research. In addition to serving the general internet population, the site is used for educational purposes at local universities where the science of happiness is taught.

S&A sponsored team "Risky Business" at the Manhattan Beach Six Man tournament.

Our founder, David Siemer, has personally volunteered at the Dorothy's Place kitchen.