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Not long after he graduated from St. John Fisher College in 1974 with a degree in accounting, Jerry Archibald got a job at Arthur Anderson LLP, an accounting firm.
Jerry Archibald
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Not long after he graduated from St. John Fisher College in 1974 with a degree in accounting, Jerry Archibald got a job at Arthur Anderson LLP, an accounting firm.
One of his first clients was the School of the Holy Childhood, an organization devoted to helping children and adults who have developmental disabilities.
It was not considered a plum assignment, Archibald recalls, as accounting firms weren’t paying much attention to nonprofit clients, especially small agencies.
Archibald went out to the school led by Sister Seraphine Herbst, a Roman Catholic nun whose devotion to Holy Childhood and its students was contagious.
“I met that woman, and it basically changed my life,” says Archibald, now a partner in the Bonadio Group, a Pittsford-based accounting and financial
services firm with offices throughout the state.
services firm with offices throughout the state.
In a sense, it wasn’t that Archibald, who recently received the Community Partner Award from the Council of (nonprofit) Agency Executives, discovered a new life when he first visited the School of the Holy Childhood.
It was more that he saw a way to connect his personal and professional lives.
A native of Irondequoit who now lives in Honeoye, Ontario County, Archibald was one of five children who grew up in a Roman Catholic family committed to helping the less fortunate.
That commitment was reinforced at his Catholic elementary school and at Bishop Kearney High School and St. John Fisher.
That commitment connected him then and now to the School of the Holy Childhood, which has thrived over the years and is now located in Henrietta.
“Jerry’s always right there when you want him,” says Sister Seraphine, who is retired. “You don’t meet a lot of people like him. Jerry is special.”
As time went on, especially after he joined Bonadio in 1986, Archibald added more and more nonprofit agencies to his client roster.
Along the way, Archibald became recognized as an expert on the financial and organizational issues facing social service agencies, hospitals and other nonprofit groups.
But all this time, Archibald has not just talked the talk.
In addition to serving on a variety of boards over the years, Archibald, who is 60, has helped in other ways.
For one thing, he has made it a point to give away $10 to $50 a day to people whom he thinks may need help. It could be someone paying a restaurant bill, someone in line at a grocery store. The gifts are spontaneous and have no strings attached.
This kind of giving could increase if Archibald, who is married and the father of two adult children, retires in five years.
He hopes then to travel the country for a year, spending one week at a time using his knowledge and experience to assist churches with whatever problems they may have.
In addition to serving on a variety of boards over the years, Archibald, who is 60, has helped in other ways.
For one thing, he has made it a point to give away $10 to $50 a day to people whom he thinks may need help. It could be someone paying a restaurant bill, someone in line at a grocery store. The gifts are spontaneous and have no strings attached.
This kind of giving could increase if Archibald, who is married and the father of two adult children, retires in five years.
He hopes then to travel the country for a year, spending one week at a time using his knowledge and experience to assist churches with whatever problems they may have.
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