David Cacioppo stays plenty busy running digital marketing firm emfluence, but he still makes time to volunteer as a board member for Children International.

Based in Kansas City, Children International assists more than 340,000 impoverished children and youths around the world. The nonprofit provides a wide range of services, covering nutrition, health, education and more, in 20 different countries.

Cacioppo is in the second year of a three-year term on Children International’s board. He has offered marketing advice to the charity, and last year, he visited three of its service centers in Zambia.

Cacioppo joined the board thanks to a connection through the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, another organization that he serves with. It’s been amazing, he said, to witness the scope of Children International’s programs and how many people they help.

“Their staff is so incredibly smart and talented, he said. “They really run like it a well-run business, with a heart.”

(photo courtesy of Children International)