“Totally unacceptable.”
That’s what Mark McDermott has to say about poverty.
“Probably goes back to my Catholic upbringing,” he says.
It’s that commitment to others that led McDermott into the for-profit senior home care industry.
“I was looking for a way to make a living with a purpose,” he says.
He and his brothers started Touching Hearts at Home which has provided non-medical, companion-level care for years now, even through the pandemic.
The company’s success has put him and his family in a position to sponsor the House of Mercy gala.
The monetary commitment represents an extension of his family’s deep connection to the HOM with McDermott’s father serving on the board.
That link was started and strengthened by a shared belief in Radical Compassion.
“It means action,” McDermott says. “Compassion without action is sort of an empty promise.”
In the HOM, McDermott sees action with the right direction.
“They acknowledge individuality and meet them where they are,” McDermott says.
Doing that, to McDermott and many others who support the HOM, is more than acceptable: it’s expected.