Do The Right Thing Welcomes Whelan Security as a Primary Sponsor

St. Louis—Do the Right Thing of Greater St. Louis, a program that increases awareness of children’s positive acts and deeds in the community, welcomes Whelan Security as one of the primary sponsors of the 14-year old initiative. Whelan, one of the top contract security companies in the United States, will help develop and promote positive social behavior in St. Louis area youth by:

Reinforcing and increasing good behavior in school-age children across the Bi-State regions;
Increasing positive media coverage of the good deeds performed by school-age children;
Continuing to increase the ways in which children are recognized for their selfless acts.

“The mission of this organization is to work in partnership, on behalf of the Bi-State region, with area law enforcement agencies, schools, businesses, and the media in an effort to encourage, develop, recognize, and promote positive social behavior in the youth of our community,” said Greg Twardowski, President of Whelan Security. “Although Whelan Security is involved in and supportive of many nonprofit charitable organizations and civic, cultural, and educational endeavors, it is a tremendous honor to be associated with Do the Right Thing of Greater St. Louis, Inc., an organization that is encouraging children to live out the meaning of words such as honesty, respect, and integrity while also inspiring and rewarding them for their actions and ultimately instilling confidence in the future leaders of our society.”

The Do The Right Thing initiative was started in the St. Louis area in 1994 and since then has recognized over one thousand (1000) children each year throughout the Bi-State area. Whelan joins the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the St. Louis County Police Department, KMOV Channel 4, Commerce Bank, Sigma-Aldrich, Schnucks Markets, McDonalds (of St. Louis and the Metro East), Six Flags (of St. Louis), St. Louis Community College, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Memorial Hospital (Belleville), and the Cooperating School Districts of St. Louis County as primary sponsors of Do The Right Thing.

WHELAN SECURITY: With headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, Whelan Security is a privately owned and operated security firm providing outsourced and contract security staffing services to corporate headquarters, Class A office buildings, financial institutions, educational campuses, industrial and distribution facilities, medical facilities, retail shopping centers, residential communities, and sensitive government facilities throughout the Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States (including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Maryland, Delaware, Northern Virginia, and Washington DC). From humble beginnings in 1949 as a simple security patrol company providing service along the St. Louis riverfront, Whelan Security now employs more than 3,500 full-time employees and currently ranks within the top fifteen security companies in the country, placing it within the top 1% of the industry. In addition, Whelan Security is one of the top ten privately owned contract security companies operating in the United States and one of the top privately held companies in St. Louis, MO.