January 5, 2009
TPG Companies named to work with Ag-Urban Leadership Initiative
TPG Companies has announced that for the second year, it is working with the Ag-Urban Leadership Initiative and the Iowa Soybean Association to help create a model in which ag and urban interests are engaged in a collaboratively-based dialogue and solutions.
As part of the leadership team, TPG is involved with the strategic development and facilitation of the Initiative, helping participants build consensus and engagement, despite differences and distractions, to generate impact, results, and relationships.
The Ag-Urban Leadership Initiative was founded by the Iowa Soybean Association for people who live, work or have an interest in the options and challenges affecting Iowa. It offers leaders an opportunity to build on already strong and valued Iowa characteristics for a stronger Iowa.
The Ag Urban Leadership Initiative is now accepting applications for its 2009 class. Ag-Urban Leadership Initiative participants meet five times in all-day sessions beginning in late March and run through December.
Additional information and an online application are available at www.Ag-UrbanLeadership.com.
Interested individuals may also contact Pat Grote at 515-974-4283.
October 10, 2008
TPG Companies Creates Ripples with Sponsorship of Motivational Event
Imagine...A motivational experience that doesn't turn into a sales pitch. One that offers hope and inspiration in these days of economic turmoil and unsettling world events. Words of Hope is that experience.
TPG Companies, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has helped create and launch Words of Hope...Creating Ripples in Our Lives, a half-day seminar that engages and inspires.
TPG invites its colleagues and friends to join this exciting event, scheduled for October 25, 2008 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines.
Paul Kirpes, President and CEO of TPG Companies is the lead-off speaker ofor the day. You'll want to hear his motivating talk on "Living...Hope." Paul will introduce powerful words and simple questions that help listeners reveal, receive and reciprocate living words of hope.
Like many of the companies and organizations it serves. TPG holds strong values of creating hope and positive change. Presentations at Words of Hope are drawn from the personal stories of inspiration and perservance in speakers' lives...stories about how words -- a promise give, a voice heard, a passion discovered -- have sparked dramatic changes. Particpants will leave Words of Hope knowing that they too create ripples.
Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Cornerstone of Hope Orphanage and the Food Bank of Iowa. For details and ticket purchase visit www.hoperipples.com.
September 10, 2008
Local Company Names a National Consultant Partner
TPG Companies, Inc. (www.whatmattersmost.com) West Des Moines, Iowa, has been named Consultant Partner with Mission Research, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based developer of the fundraising software GiftWorks. Paul J. Kirpes is President & CEO of TPG Companies. Kirpes has guided the company through 30 years of bringing strategic management, fundraising, grant writing, capital campaign, and leadership development to the non-profit sector. Mission Research is a socially responsible software company focused on serving nonprofits with contact, donor and donation management software.
September 1, 2008
TPG Philanthropy Group Receives 2008 Best of West Des Moines Award
WASHINGTON, D.C., -- TPG Philanthropy Group, one of the TPG Companies, has been selected for the 2008 Best of West Des Mopines Award in the Business Management Consultants category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).
The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Progra recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are companies that enhance the positive image of local business through service to customers and community.
Various souces of information were gather and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The mission of USLBA is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.