Freedom Financial Network Contributes to Relief Fund
In Honor of Area Resident Killed by Tsunami
--San Mateo Firm Urges Area Small Businesses to Combine Efforts for Common Goal--
January 2005 San Mateo-based Freedom Financial Network , LLC, a national consumer debt resolution service, is one local business participating in the tsunami relief effort in hopes that its contribution sends a message to small businesses throughout the Bay area and Silicon Valley.
By itself, our contribution is nominal, says Brad Stroh, co-CEO of Freedom Financial Network. Yet if small businesses throughout the area each do their part, together we can have a significant impact on the rebuilding of this part of south Asia.
The company is contributing $5,000 to the relief fund organized by classmates of Stanford University Graduate School of Business student James Hsu, who was killed in the disaster. Proceeds from the fundraising effort will be contributed to the American Red Cross and will aid the estimated 150,000 victims of the tsunami.
Hsu, a second-year MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, was vacationing in the resort area of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, with three other students following a school study trip to Singapore and Thailand that had concluded a few days earlier. Hsu, 25, was a U.S. citizen and a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley. He lived in Atherton.
A written statement prepared by the Hsu family said, "We hope that James' life will spur all of us to take action and to contribute to the effort to help those who have survived, not just in the immediate aftermath, but also throughout the long, long road to recovery. Stroh, who along with company co-CEO Andrew Housser holds a degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, echoes the family's sentiment. This disaster is affecting each person in a different way. We each must find the best way to do our part.
More information on the fund, with instructions on how to contribute, can be found at www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/hsu_howto_donate.shtml .
Freedom Financial Network, LLC (www.freedomdebtrelief.com) provides consumer debt resolution services through its Freedom Debt Relief, Freedom Foreclosure Relief, and Freedom Tax Relief divisions. The company represents the consumer exclusively, serving in a position of mediation and negotiating with unsecured creditors to offer an alternative to bankruptcy, credit counseling, and debt consolidation. B ased in San Mateo, Freedom Financial Network serves more than 2,000 clients nationwide and manages more than $70 million in consumer debt.
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CONTACTS:
Brad Stroh, co-CEO
Freedom Financial Network, LLC
650-571-0961, x210
bradford@freedomdebtrelief.com
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