1990

Launched our cornerstone food drive program. In 32 years, the initiative has provided more than 600,000 meals to families in need.

1997

Founded the Annual Tim Groves Memorial Charity Golf Event. To date, the event has raised more than $400,000 for local charities.

2013

We began an initiative called Carver Cares, to highlight and support local charitable organizations. The goals are to raise awareness of the services available to the community and to help support the organizations monetarily. At selected events throughout the year, local organizations will provide a brief overview of their mission, services and organizations. As a company we will match any donations to the highlighted organization – up to $4,000 – made in the month following the event. We let clients know which organization we are highlighting prior to the event. The community partners are listed in event communications and on our Events Page. At the event clients learn a little more about the agency being featured and what they do for the community. If you have a specific organization you would like considered, please contact Paige Rost. Charities are selected based on information obtained from Form 990, as well as their financial responsibility.

2023

For the last few years, a food drive has been held as part of our Client Appreciation Event at the Lake County Captain’s baseball game. In 2023, more than 1,800 clients, family, and friends who came to the game brought enough non-perishable food for nearly 4,000 meals, which was donated to End 68 Hours of Hunger Lake County. We have continued to support End 68 Hours of Hunger, The Salvation Army, and Lake County Free Clinic along with other local organizations. The 2023 food drive raised more than 3,000 meals again. Our Annual Charity Golf event donated more than $50,000 to the Be The Match Bone Marrow  program.

Carver Financial Services was founded with the vision of making peoples lives better. Over the last year, I reflected on the fact that donating food can and has made a difference, yet we were only treating the symptom and not the root cause of hunger or homelessness. The question was, how to do we fix this? The answer is the New Beginning Initiative.

The New Beginning Initiative is focused on permanently eliminating hunger and homelessness in Lake Country by helping individuals who want to help themselves. This initiative focuses on those who want to work – rather than getting a hand out. This initiative is here to help those individuals work, earn an income to support themselves and their family, provide dignity, independence and financial freedom. This also benefits our community. by improving the employment in our county. It benefits all of us with better property values, a more robust community and higher tax base.