Last week, we had an idea. Why not take a fun holiday like Halloween, and pair it with a fundraising challenge, to raise money for local charities? So we did just that. Throughout last week, Avionté employees nominated fellow coworkers to dress in costumes and placed their "bids" on the costume nominations, with the goal of building the bids up as high as they could!

We challenged you to participate in our Halloween fundraising challenge too, by sending us photos of your team's "Most Creative", "Most Outrageous", "Best Dressed Group" and "Best Dressed Pet" costumes!

Our employees came to the office in all kinds of fun costumes on Friday, including The Avionté Spice Girls, My Little Pony, Rosie the Riveter, and more! Our CFO Mark Young won the challenge by raising the most bids and by coming to the office dressed as Baby Spice. He's chosen to give the $725 raised to Smile Network International, an organization that provides life-altering surgeries and health care services to impoverished children and adults in developing nations.

We'll be announcing our four client winners later this week. Each winner will receive $500 to donate to the charity of their choice. Thank you to everyone who participated in the client costume contest; we loved seeing all of your costumes, and hope you had a great Halloween!