The NTSA is proud to name Adam Pearce, CFP®, one of the 2021 recipients of the NTSA Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award.
Pearce, a certified financial planner at Lincoln Investment, has been an active volunteer with the NTSA. His volunteer activity includes work with the CRES Committee, Summit presentations and service as President and Past President.
Says Pearce about his volunteer work with the NTSA: “What I found on my journey with the NTSA is that you serve with many successful and talented folks. And successful folks tend to also be givers, generous with their time, relationships and knowledge. As you work alongside one another, you learn a lot along the way. You share ideas. And get a lot of help. It’s no coincidence that the successful tend to be givers. Because when you give you also get back. I have learned you can’t out-give, you always get back more. It’s the law of reciprocity. If you give sparingly, you will also receive sparingly, and if you give bountifully you will reap bountifully. Finally, when others see a giver, they want to give, too. By our actions we create a culture of generosity and together that is what we inspire at the NTSA. A great example for our industry and a better one for our country.”
Pearce’s community service includes work with Hustle PHX, an initiative in Arizona established to educate business leaders in underserved urban communities about doing business. They seek to encourage the creation of sustainable business ventures that affirm the dignity of people and lead to the flourishing of all communities in Phoenix.
“Adam is an amazing individual that has given his time and committed to the mission of Hustle PHX,” says Oye Waddel, CEO of Hustle. “Despite some of his health challenges, in a very trying time in his life, Adam continued to find ways to support the mission of Hustle PHX by supporting entrepreneurs in urban/inner city communities throughout Phoenix.”
About the NTSA Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award
The NTSA Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award honors and promotes NTSA members’ volunteer and service work in two areas: both with the NTSA in their tax-exempt retirement industry markets and with the member’s own non-profit community. This award evidences to the retirement industry, as well as the tax-exempt and non-profit communities, as well as to clients and their supporting parties, that the excellence and social responsibility represented by NTSA members enhances their unique partnerships.
Volunteerism. NTSA standing committees and projects, through the NTSA member’s donation of time and talent, in ways that are extraordinary, unique and valuable.
Service. Community Service, either locally or nationally, through the NTSA member’s donation of time and talent, in ways that are significant, innovative and meaningful.
The awards were established in the 30th anniversary year of the NTSA in honor of the unique, lifelong volunteer efforts of Richard Ford, a lively and dedicated NTSA volunteer for its whole life. Ford was an extraordinary community volunteer and promoter as well. NTSA officers, on behalf of the association and in unanimous conjunction with the NTSA Leadership Council, established these awards in 2019, following the untimely passing of Ford. As Chief Marketing Officer for PlanMember Financial Corporation and a leading NTSA Strategic Partner, Ford also created, implemented and promoted the PlanMember “Make a Difference” annual award.
See the full Terms and Conditions for the NTSA FVSA purpose and process at https://www.ntsa-net.org/sites/ntsa-net.org/files/PDFs/2022_FVSA_TandCv3.18.2021.pdf
In Part I of a special, three-part NTSA WOWcast series about the Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award and its inaugural winners, NTSA Past President Randy Aranowitz discusses the award with Kevin Twohy and NTSA Past Presidents Kris Coffey and Susan Diehl; together the four form the Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award Committee. In Part I-B, Aranowitz interviews 2020 Richard Ford Volunteer Service Award winner Lisa Stubbs.
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