However, the arm of the company that Porter may be most proud of is the Baystate Charitable Foundation established in 1999, which grew out of Porter's work with children in the Boston area. The fund helps support the DSS Kids Fund, which helps abused and neglected children in the care of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.

The foundation also supports Friends of the Children-Boston, which hires professional mentors to work with the city's most at-risk young people. The foundation is an expansion of something Porter's own children and their friends started and it is now going to be expanded to Maine and Rhode Island.

"When I interview people for positions, I hand them a binder that has thank-you notes in it from charitable organizations and I ask them what it means to them," Porter says. "I want to hire people who will give back. If you do not have money, you can give time. We support the staff members' contributions to charities.

"I am always looking for someone who is willing to say 'yes' to the question, 'Will you help me?' It says a lot about who you are," he adds.

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