Back during the recession years of 2008-2009, things trended toward bleak for the American Supply Association’s Education Foundation.
“That was my first year on the Education Foundation as a trustee,” recalls Central States Group’s Todd Ford, chairman of the ASA Education Foundation Endowment Campaign Advisory Board. “Sales were gone and the endowment had gone below the original endowment amount and we didn’t have the sales to fund our initiatives and products, plus ASA didn’t have the funds to subsidize the foundation.