Happy holidays, everyone!
We want to thank you for another wonderful year of partnership, friendship, and innovation! We are so grateful to work in the IBM i space, building relationships with talented IT professionals, and developing tools to help you take your applications to the next level.
To show our gratitude, this year, we’ve donated money on your behalf to the American Red Cross and World Central Kitchen. Both of these organizations do amazing work around the country and the globe.
Our wishes for you…
As 2024 winds down, we hope that you have time of restoration, peace, and joy surrounded by those you love. We hope that you eat food you enjoy, laugh until you cry, and be filled with peace and contentment.
May 2025 bring you health, purpose, and happiness.
American Red Cross
Red Cross volunteers and staff work to deliver vital services – from providing relief and support to those in crisis, to helping you be prepared to respond in emergencies.
Each day, thousands of people – people just like you – provide compassionate care to those in need. Our network of generous donors, volunteers and employees share a mission of preventing and relieving suffering, here at home and around the world.
We roll up our sleeves and donate time, money and blood. We learn or teach life-saving skills so our communities can be better prepared when the need arises. We do this every day because the Red Cross is needed – every day.
World Central Kitchen
“When you need medical service, you bring doctors and nurses. When you need the rebuilding of infrastructure, you bring in engineers and architects. And if you have to feed people, you need professional chefs.”
– José Andrés WCK Founder & Chief Feeding Officer
Food is essential to life every single day, all over the world—and it is more important than ever in a crisis. Not only is a thoughtful, freshly prepared meal one less thing someone has to worry about after a disaster, but it’s also a reminder that you’re not alone, someone is thinking about you, and someone cares. Food has the power to be the nourishment and hope we need to pick ourselves back up in the darkest times.
In 2010, Chef José Andrés, ready to use his culinary knowledge and talent to help, headed to Haiti following a devastating earthquake. Cooking alongside displaced families in a camp, he was guided on the proper way to cook black beans the way Haitians like to eat them: mashed and sieved into a creamy sauce. It wasn’t just about feeding people in need—it was about listening, learning, and cooking side by side with the people impacted by the crisis. This is the real meaning of comfort food, and it’s the core value that José, along with his wife Patricia, used at the center of founding World Central Kitchen.
