"If anything, Jim's commitment to Arc is even greater than when Markie was alive," said longtime friend, Greg DesRoches, president of Cornerstone, an advertising and public relations firm. "Jim Greenfield, over the course of his life, has had compassion and civic involvement and a generous desire to help others at the very core of his being every waking moment."
DesRoches said Greenfield has stepped in many times to help when he saw a need.
"I have seen an unbelievable number of circumstances where he has intervened in peoples' lives anonymously," he said. "What he's done is to combine his business savvy and his compassion to help make the lives of individuals better."
