On May 20, 21 Long Island-based Arrow employees joined team captain Anthony Pappone, finance manager, Melville, in the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Great Strides Walk in Long Beach, N.Y. Participants trekked a five-kilometer (3.1 miles) section of the Long Beach Boardwalk to raise a total of $3,835, including a $1,050 grant earned through Arrow’s Employee Volunteer Team Grant program for U.S. employees.

Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease affecting approximately 30,000 people in the United States with chronic, life-threatening lung infections and digestion impairment. The median predicted age of survival for people with Cystic Fibrosis is in the mid-30s.

Participating in the Great Strides Walk were employees (left) Jessica Teisch, Mary Ellen Hendrickson, Lisa Melchione, Robert Weisberg, Dena Bardekoff, Colette Navetta, Thomas Noto, Lauren Heimowitz, Brian Simpson, Glenn Klevitz, Frank Navarra, Kathy Quinn, George Asimakopoulos, Anthony Pappone, Adam Weiss, Martin Hillery and Andres Parra. Melissa Cavaliere, Susan Matusek, Matthew McHugh and Barton Ng also participated but are not present in the photo.