When Kurt
Amico describes himself as a farmer, he's not talking about agriculture
or cultivation.
"Some
people are hunters, looking for you to give something to them.
If you're a farmer, you plant a seed and it will grow," says
the president and owner of MidCity Office Furniture.
Amico, who
joined MidCity as an outside-sales representative in 1991, says
he learned early in his career that good things come to those
who give in just about every facet of life.
"You
could see the way folks acted in their best interest first and
that it didn't necessarily work," he says. If you can do
what's in someone else's best interest first and you can feel
good too, where's the problem there? It's good news all around."
Amico's personal
philosophy on community contributions has become a mantra for
his business. He says MidCity donated 50 percent of its gross
profits last year to charities and community organizations.
Included in
those donations were the design and furnishings for an office
at Gilda's Club Western New York, 20 truckloads of furniture for
the Buffalo City Mission and more furniture for the City of Buffalo
and Boys and Girls club of Buffalo, Inc. MidCity has also made
cash contributions to such organizations as the Arts Council in
Buffalo & Erie County, Camp Good Days and Special Times, Roswell
Park Cancer Institute and People, Inc.
"Everybody
that asks gets something from us, either in-kind donations or
money," Amico says.
And contributions
to the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County's annual campaigns
are de rigueur for all MidCity staff.
"I look
at it like it's a requirement to work here," Amico says.
The Town of
Tonawanda resident, a father of two, says he expects that he will
have to give something before he sees any benefits, whether in
the business world, in relationships with friends and family or
in the community.
It seems natural
that it would carry over to owning a business and giving back
to a community that's obviously made it possible for us to be
here," he says.
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