Sedgwick CMS

Corporate Giving story for The Commercial Appeal

June 5, 2009

The 6,400 employees of Sedgwick CMS provide claims administration, medical management and risk consulting in all 50 states and Canada. At corporate headquarters in Memphis, the 500 employees lead a grass-roots community support effort.

“As an office, we get to vote on which organizations we give to,” said Kelli Reece, project coordinator for Sedgwick.

For 2009, the company’s beneficiary is the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South, the organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. In November, for instance, Make-A-Wish gave 15-year-old Jasmine Johnson, a musician who has suffered from AIDS since she was 2, a $6,500 shopping spree to buy recording equipment so she could make music for her father to listen to when she is gone … (read more)