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Where you will find us when we are not at your desk: the chambers, the tournaments, the causes we care about. Dated, with names.

The causes202620252024With clients

Causes we show up for

Eight causes, most of them year after year.

Pick one to see every time we were there.

Dated, with names

Where we have been.

2026
Our table at the Early Learning Coalition summit, with the Protected Trust card among the flowers
September 24, 2026 · Tampa Bay

Kindergarten readiness, at the track

We supported the Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County's summit on kindergarten readiness, held at The Motor Enclave in Tampa, for the second year. Local leaders and policymakers, a good conversation about investing in the youngest learners, and charity races around the track to raise money for the cause. The year before, the Coalition raffled off a Surface we donated and put every dollar toward classroom resources. Good to see Rick Rampersad and the Coalition's team again.

For Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County
Two of our people at the Protected Trust booth at the ABC Construction Expo
September 2026 · Orlando

The ABC Construction Expo

A night at the ABC of Central Florida's Construction Expo, carnival theme and all. Clients stopped by the booth, Tucker Paving among them, and Amanda Hopta-Brown of Cultura HR went home with the Yeti cooler.

For ABC of Central Florida
A centerpiece table at the ABC of Central Florida Casino Night
August 18, 2026 · Orlando

Casino Night for workforce education

ABC of Central Florida's Casino Night at the Orlando Science Center raises money for workforce education in the trades. We went for the cause and met a room full of people building Central Florida.

For ABC of Central Florida
The Protected Trust tent on the course, with the Yeti cooler on the table
March 26, 2026 · Polk County

The Chamber golf tournament

Par sponsor at the Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce's 35th annual golf tournament. Our tent on the course, a Yeti cooler to win, and a lot of people we already knew. The coolers went to Edoardo Zanguio of Polyglass USA and Zach Wilson of Hill Nissan.

For Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce
2025
Four of our golfers under the Protected Trust tent
November 14, 2025 · Polk County

Golf for the Scouts, year two

Back at Cypresswood for the Greater Tampa Bay Area Council of Scouting America, a year after the first one. John Strang of Gapway Grove and Scott Moore of Publix joined our crew. Joe Nichols of Trax Credit Union took home the cooler. Nobody asked about the scores, which was kind.

For Scouting America, Greater Tampa Bay Area Council
Our team in matching jerseys at the Protected Trust tent at the Endeavor Cornhole Classic
October 23, 2025 · Polk County

The Endeavor Cornhole Classic

We presented the Endeavor Cornhole Classic this year, the annual fundraiser of Endeavor, Winter Haven's young professionals, with six/ten as the venue sponsor and a board full of Winter Haven businesses behind it. We came in jerseys. Kayleigh Avian of EMERGE Lakeland won the computer, and Leah handed it over as the sun went down. If you were there, thank you for coming out.

For Endeavor Winter Haven
Four shooters under the oak with the Soaring Sponsor sign at the Clays Classic
October 2025 · Polk County

The Clays Classic, second year

Back at the John R. Alexander Memorial Clays Classic for the Polk State College Foundation, with Ian Prince of Prince and Sons and Mike Felix of Tucker Paving shooting on our team. Carlin Bennett of Haven Building Products won the cooler. The money goes to Polk State students.

For Polk State College Foundation
The group at a CCC Orlando dinner
October 2025 · Orlando

CCC Orlando, and a night on an AI panel

We have joined CCC Orlando, Contractors, Closers and Connections, a nonprofit that brings together people from commercial real estate and construction in Orlando and puts the proceeds of its events into local causes. In September, Javier sat on its panel on AI in business at Allure Auto Spa and talked about Copilot without the hype, and Rey Ruiz of ECS Limited won the computer we brought. In October, the members' happy hour at Osphere. A good room, and the kind of people we like to know.

For CCC Orlando
Two of our golfers at Theatre Winter Haven's second annual golf tournament
September 2024 and 2025 · Polk County

Theatre Winter Haven's golf tournament

Two years running on the course for Theatre Winter Haven and The Ritz. In 2024 with Logan Webb and Hood Craddock of Tampa Bay Trust Company and Alex Nikdel of Echo Delta. In 2025 with Steve Brooks of Brooks Law Group and Zack Strang of Gapway Grove, and John Morisako took home the cooler.

For Theatre Winter Haven and The Ritz
Our foursome on the course at the 34th annual Winter Haven Chamber golf tournamentRick Miles of Mulling Insurance Agency with the Surface he won, at lunch with Bill
April 2025 · Polk County

The 34th Chamber golf tournament

The Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce's 34th annual tournament, with Joe and Chris handing out refreshments at our hole. The raffle put a Surface in the hands of Rick Miles of Mulling Insurance Agency, which has protected Florida businesses since 1957, and Michael Hoyle of Atlantic Payroll Partners.

For Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce
The panel at the Orlando Business Journal's 2025 Economic Outlook
January 2025 · Orlando

The Economic Outlook, downtown

The Orlando Business Journal's Economic Outlook for 2025. Economists on a stage, a room full of the people who run Orlando's businesses, and Pedro taking notes. We had been at the Journal's downtown event at the Dr. Phillips Center two months earlier.

2024
Our foursome with the tournament sign
November 22, 2024 · Polk County

The John G. Wood Lake Region Golf Scramble

The 37th annual scramble for the Greater Tampa Bay Area Council of Scouting America, with Austin Tharp of Aventail Wealth Management and Angela Rosado of the Lake Wales History Museum on our team. The sign has an older line of ours on it. The people are the same.

For Scouting America, Greater Tampa Bay Area Council
The crowd at CCC Orlando's Playing for Vets night at Mercedes-Benz of Orlando
November 21, 2024 · Orlando

Playing for Vets

CCC Orlando's Playing for Vets night at Mercedes-Benz of Orlando, for disabled veterans. We were glad to be in the room and glad to help.

For CCC Orlando
The shooters under the oaks before the round at the John R. Alexander Clays Classic
October 25, 2024 · Polk County

The Clays Classic for Polk State

An Eagle sponsor at the John R. Alexander Memorial Clays Classic, the Polk State College Foundation's sporting clays shoot, which raises money for students in our county. Under the oaks before the round.

For Polk State College Foundation
Four of us at the SIP Business to Business social
April 2024 · Polk County

A social at SIP

The SIP Business to Business social at Gene Downing's wine bar in Haines City, a room of people who work in Polk County. Gene is a client, and the evening was his idea.

May 2024 · The Grand Cypress, Orlando

The people who answer your phone, with the people they go home to.

The whole company and the families, a weekend at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando.

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With clients, off the clock

Some of the people we work for are people we fish with.

That is not a strategy. It is what happens when the same people answer the phone for ten years.

Our people with the Bishops of Top Flight Electric and Wesley Perine of Next Level Training
February 26, 2025

Oysters in Lake Alfred

An evening of oysters with Billy, Jessika, and Renee Bishop of Top Flight Electric and Wesley Perine of Next Level Training. Clients for years, and by now the kind of people you call to go to dinner.

Three of the night's crew holding up a fish under the lights
September 2024

Bow fishing, after dark

A night on the water with Twisted Limbs Bow Fishing, Wesley Perine of Next Level Training, Bill, and Chris. A night to remember, Bill said, which from Bill is a review.

Six of us on the boat at sunset in Boca Grande
June and July 2024

A summer of tarpon in Boca Grande

Bill ran charters out of Boca Grande all summer, and clients came along. Jay Burns of Crown Shredding and Jake Wren with Pedro in June. Austin and Greg Tharp of Aventail Wealth Management and Angela Rosado of the Lake Wales History Museum in July. Chris Sexson of Destroyer Media and Brian Sleight the next week. The Bishops of Top Flight Electric and the Perines of Next Level Training to close it out, with the sunsets to prove it.

Two rods in the water at sunset off Boca Grande
July 2024

Another day, another tarpon

Bill, a boat, and a client at sunset. Most of what we know about our clients we learned somewhere like this.

Five men on the dock in Boca Grande with a tub of the day's catch
June 2024

The first charter of the summer

Jay Burns of Crown Information Management and Jake Wren, new clients that spring, with Pedro and Bill on the dock at Boca Grande. The tub says how the day went.

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