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f we spend all of our time with affuent people, eventually that
becomes the defnition of the world for us, said Bruce Fyfe,
executive vice president of ProVise Management Group
in Clearwater, Florida.
Working at the Homeless Emergency Project has provided an
important balance for me, he said.
HEP, also based in Clearwater, provides emergency housing and food,
transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing.
Mr. Fyfe has served as chairman of HEPs board since 1992.
Over the years, he has taken the organization from two employees
and a budget of $100,000, to almost 60 employees with an operating
budget of $4.5 million, serving 400 clients per day. Mr. Fyfe raised
almost $1.5 million for HEP between January 2011 and April 2012.
Last October, he accomplished a personally signifcant project for
HEP: the opening of a 32-unit complex for homeless veterans of the
Afghan and Iraq wars. He and his wife raised $3.4 million for the
facility in honor of their son, an Iraq war veteran who died in 2009 from
the effects of severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
It was a passion for me before my son died, and its a double passion
now. I dont want others to lose their children in the same way I lost
my son, Mr. Fyfe said.
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