Cleveland, OH -- (SBWIRE) --06/13/2011 -- Employees at Cleveland-based Cedar Brook Financial Partners paid $5 to wear jeans to work on April 29, 2011. All funds were donated to MedWish International but only after two Cedar Brook partners, Ken Rogat and Randy Schneider, matched the impressive hundreds of dollars raised.

MedWish International, founded in 1993 by Lee Ponsky, M.D., provides donated medical supplies to improve the health and save lives of people in need across the globe. The non-profit organization is committed to the recovery and recycling of donated medical supplies area healthcare providers must discard.

“MedWish is an amazing organization,” explained Ken Rogat, Cedar Brook partner. “People in developing nations are literally dying for what our hospitals dispose of every day. MedWish bridges that gap and provides our medical surplus to help save lives overseas and the environment,” continued Rogat.

MedWish International is just one of several charities Cedar Brook supports each year. Every Thanksgiving, Cedar Brook advisors and associates volunteer at the Cleveland Food Bank. 2011 was the fourth year in a row Cedar Brook conducted a firm-wide program to raise donations for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Campaign.

About Cedar Brook Financial Partners LLC
Headquartered in Cleveland, OH, Cedar Brook Financial Partners LLC is one of the largest independent wealth management firms in Northeast, OH, according to Crain’s Cleveland Business 2011. Cedar Brook’s fifty-plus professionals deliver customized, personal services including comprehensive wealth strategies, investment and insurance advice, retirement plan consulting, and group benefit programs. Physicians, corporate executives, privately held business owners, and families can consider their Cedar Brook advisor to be their personal CFO. The firm offers securities through Securities America Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services are offered through Securities America Advisors Inc., a SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Cedar Brook Financial Partners LLC and the Securities America companies are not affiliated. For more information, visit http://www.cedarbrookfinancial.com.

About MedWish International
MedWish International is a non-profit organization committed to the recovery and recycling of donated medical supplies area healthcare providers must discard. Globally, the MedWish International program improves the quality of medical care available to the underserved around the world; locally, we are effectively reducing the amount of solid waste deposited in landfills. MedWish International also serves as a resource for local health-care professionals and charitable organizations interested in global health.