Students give Heart Art quilt to benefactor FIS

Posted on February 6, 2014 By Editor Junior Residents

To commemorate the first Show Us Your Heart art program, sponsored by FIS and facilitated by the American Heart Association-First Coast, the students of KIPP Impact Middle School last month presented a handmade quilt to Frank Martire, Chairman and CEO and Gary Norcross, President and COO, of Riverside-based financial technology company FIS.
The quilt was created by 60 students in grades 5-7 during a five-week art program last fall and is representative of the students’ interpretations of how cardiovascular disease impacts their and loved ones lives. With a strong tradition of community involvement, FIS saw the sponsorship as way to bring together two of its charitable giving interests, to give to American Heart Association-First Coast while creating a direct benefit for the students of KIPP Impact Middle School on McDuff Avenue.

FIS executives Frank Martire, Chairman and CEO (center), and Gary Norcross, President and COO (top), are surrounded by students from KIPP Impact Middle School, along with Amy Mergen, FIS Senior Vice President, Corporate Programs (lower right), Lorie Strange-Paylor, Go Red For Women Director, American Heart Association-First Coast (lower left) and Stephanie Garthe, Art Instructor (standing behind Mergen)