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Some are major, like our CT20! Voluntourism Scholarship, and some are individual, personal moments of charity represented by our own travel specialists. Each time we participate in a give-back initiative, we write about it below to raise awareness about the amazing organizations we've come to know throughout the year. Have an opportunity you'd like us to consider? We'd love to hear it- please email us here.

Cadence Turns Twenty
Cadence Turns Twenty: Raising $8000 + for Rady Children's Hospital
Cadence Turns Twenty: Raising $8000 + for Rady Children's Hospital

Our final act of CT20 and second annual holiday charity event benefited one of our favorite local charities. And, drum roll please.... We exceeded our fundraising goal by $3000!

Cadence Turns Twenty: Professional Attire Drive
Cadence Turns Twenty: Professional Attire Drive

This winter, Cadence collected gently used, nearly-new professional attire for local organization's initiative for career-driven women.

Cadence Turns 20: Feeding the homeless with Urban Angels
Cadence Turns 20: Feeding the homeless with Urban Angels

Urban Angels is a Nonprofit Organization formed to nourish and provide food for the homeless of San Diego. We joined in to help on just one of the food services they provide 7 days a week, every single day of the year.

Cadence Turns Twenty: Adopting a Family for Holiday Gifts
Cadence Turns Twenty: Adopting a Family for Holiday Gifts

Cadence adopted a family in need for the holidays and showered them with wrapped gifts based on their wish lists and anticipated needs.

Cadence Turns Twenty: Hosted Christmas party for local children in Mexico
Cadence Turns Twenty: Hosted Christmas party for local children in Mexico

This year, one of our "CT20!" reps joined in on a group trip to Tijuana for a very special Christmas party to ensure that 150 local children were able to celebrate the holiday.

Cadence Turns Twenty: "Deck the Halls" for charity
Cadence Turns Twenty: "Deck the Halls" for charity

Every year, our local Embassy Suites by Hilton in La Jolla hosts a tree decorating and raffle event to benefit Braille Institute. We filled our travel-themed tree with handmade ornaments that said "hello" in languages from around the world.

Cadence Turns 20: Collecting Hotel Toiletries for Locals in Need
Cadence Turns 20: Collecting Hotel Toiletries for Locals in Need

Working in the travel industry creates of a lot of opportunities for hoarding tiny bottles of hotel shampoo, conditioner, body wash and lotion. This year, we found a much better place for our collections than the back of our bathroom cabinets!

Cadence Turns 20: Homemade Blankets for Nursing Homes
Cadence Turns 20: Homemade Blankets for Nursing Homes

Time spent with seniors brings so much joy to both parties and as an added bonus, we can also learn so much from them. However, we recently read a statistic that 85% of people in nursing homes sadly don’t get visitors.

Cadence Turns 20: Movember!
Cadence Turns 20: Movember!

By way of stick-on mustaches, Cadence officially raised funds and showed our support for a loyal client's personal 30-day Movember campaign.

Cadence Turns Twenty: Food drive for The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
Cadence Turns Twenty: Food drive for The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

We supported the largest hunger-relief organization in San Diego County with a week-long food drive at our headquarters... And were shocked to see our entire bin was overflowing past the brim!

Cadence Turns 20: Operation Christmas Child
Cadence Turns 20: Operation Christmas Child

Every year, Samaritan's Purse hosts National Collection Week, where shoeboxes are filled with hand-picked gifts and mailed to children around the world. If you have a few minutes, you can do it all from your computer any time of year!

Cadence Turns 20: Sponsoring "Trick or Suite" at Embassy Suites
Cadence Turns 20: Sponsoring "Trick or Suite" at Embassy Suites

Lions and tigers and scares, oh my! With the help of a few jungle friends, Cadence hosted a candy filled safari to inspire the littlest of future travelers.

Cadence Turns 20: Socktober!
Cadence Turns 20: Socktober!

If you follow Kid President as much as we do (we're borderline obsessed), you may already know how to do Socktober. If not, we'll explain.

Cadence Turns 20: 9th Annual Rady Children's Hospital Family Walk at SeaWorld
Cadence Turns 20: 9th Annual Rady Children's Hospital Family Walk at SeaWorld

On Sunday, October 4th, our team of Cadence employees arrived early to register walkers and cheer them on for one of our favorite fundraising events of the year.

Cadence Turns 20: Sponsoring Disabled Athletes for Adaptive Water Sports
Cadence Turns 20: Sponsoring Disabled Athletes for Adaptive Water Sports

For many, surfing is the ultimate escape. For others, like wheelchair bound Charles Webb, it is the ultimate therapy. We turned to our travel partnerships to help him compete in the opportunity of a lifetime: Duke's OceanFest in Hawaii.

Cadence Turns 20: Helping children cope with the loss of loved ones
Cadence Turns 20: Helping children cope with the loss of loved ones

Hosted by Center for Compassionate Care of The Elizabeth Hospice, Camp Erin San Diego is a free annual weekend summer camp open to local children and teens who are grieving from the death of someone close to them.

Cadence Turns 20: Donating Blood on Keller Williams RED Day
Cadence Turns 20: Donating Blood on Keller Williams RED Day

Hosted by our neighbors at Keller Williams La Jolla, in partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank, RED Day is an annual give back initiative in the community of La Jolla.

Cadence Turns 20: Raising Funds to Better the Lives of U.S. Military Families
Cadence Turns 20: Raising Funds to Better the Lives of U.S. Military Families

Since 1941, USO (United Service Organization) San Diego has been serving active-duty, reserve, guard and military families in effort to enhance the quality of life of the U.S. Armed Forces personnel and their families.

Cadence Turns 20: Spreading the love with a luxury getaway
Cadence Turns 20: Spreading the love with a luxury getaway

2015 is a milestone for Cadence- we're celebrating our twentieth birthday! Our travel specialists will be spending the year paying it forward in twenty ways, starting with a giveaway for two free nights for two at Montage Beverly Hills!

Cadence Turns 20: SDSU Voluntourism Scholarship
Cadence Turns 20: SDSU Voluntourism Scholarship

We believe travel creates opportunities to both see and change the world. We raised $5000 to send one local student to Fiji where they will visit local schools, work on clean water projects, train locals on sustainability practices, and set up reforestation projects.