Eaton Financial Group In The Community

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of it’s members.

We believe in the power of many coming together for a greater good and here at Eaton Financial Group, we focus our efforts and resources on the needs of our surrounding communities, every chance we get. We are committed to taking action and serving our communities.

We are proud to partner with and immerse ourselves with following community organizations:

RUN 4 BEIGEL

RUN 4 BEIGEL is a multi-sate 5k and 10k race established in honor of a beloved coach and mentor, Scott J. Beigel, who died a hero in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy on February 14, 2018. The singular mission and purpose of this organization is to raise funds for the Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund, founded to send disadvantaged children touched by gun violence to summer camp.

** Douglas Eaton serves as the Race Director.

 

 

Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund

Our mission and purpose is to send at-risk, underserved children touched by gun violence to summer sleep-away camp.

The Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization created in response to the tragic loss of Scott J. Beigel, the geography teacher and cross-country coach at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 innocent people died from gun violence. The fund provides camperships to send at-risk, underserved children touched by gun violence to summer sleep-away camp.

Scott J. Beigel was passionate about positively impacting children and lived his life serving kids through his work as a high school geography teacher, cross country coach and summer sleep-away camp counselor. He believed in fighting for the underdog and treating others the way you want to be treated. The Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund was created to carry on Scott’s legacy of helping others.   

** Douglas Eaton serves on the Board of Directors

Parkland, Florida Chamber of Commerce

The Mission of the Parkland Chamber of Commerce is to promote the well-being of the entire business community within the City of Parkland while maintaining the City’s residential integrity and enhancing our quality of life.

** Douglas Eaton serves as a Trustee and current President.

 

Parkland Buddy Sports, Inc

Parkland Buddy Sports provides quality sports programming for special needs children and young adults in an empowering, challenging and loving environment where the emphasis is on having fun, making friends and realizing full potential. Our volunteers, both students and adults, learn patience, tolerance and the ability of one person to change the life of another. They also learn that by creating an environment void of physical, social and cultural barriers, there are “NO LIMITS”.

** Eaton Financial Group is a proud supporter and Scholarship sponsor.

 

 

Best Buddies

Best Buddies International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

The IDD community that Best Buddies serves includes, but is not limited to, people with Down syndrome, autism, Fragile X, Williams syndrome, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and other undiagnosed disabilities.

Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.

** Eaton Financial Group is a proud supporter.

DECA Inc

DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) is a long standing, reputable institution that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. Our opportunity with DECA includes the mentoring of high school students engaged in an intensive business preparatory program.

** Eaton Financial Group is a proud supporter and sponsor, and Douglas Eaton serves as a student mentor

Northwest Broward Road Runners

Formed in 2008 in Parkland, Fl, the Northwest Broward Road Runners mission is to inspire people of all ages to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle through running / multi-sport, and to be the pre-eminent clearinghouse of running information for all families, competitive and social running-related organizations in Broward County.

** Douglas Eaton serves as a Board Member.

MSD Heroes Challenge

MSD Heroes Challenge is an organization created to encourage and support the families of those who died and encourage the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy in Parkland, FL.

Our mission is to honor and celebrate the lives of those we lost in the MSD tragedy by using a positive event to raise awareness for the benefit of a safer community and to create an extended family to support those affected.

The MSD Heroes Challenge is a run/obstacle race/yoga event that provides an opportunity for the local community to “save the day” by helping raise funds and awareness scholarships for emerging student leaders and for community organizations whose mission it is to make safer communities.

** Douglas Eaton served as a co-founder and event director.

4FNow, Inc

Fewer Firearms, Fewer Funerals. The 4FNow organization was founded in 2018 by Parkland, FL parents of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors. 4FNow is an apolitical, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to raise awareness for safer communities, prevent gun violence, and award scholarships to emerging student leaders.

** Douglas Eaton served as a co-founder.

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