By Loretta Worters, Vice President, Media Relations, Triple-I
One in 5 U.S. kids is uncertain the place they’ll get their subsequent meal, in response to the U.S. Division of Agriculture. In 2022, 33 p.c of single-parent households skilled meals insecurity, and the issue is particularly acute for households of shade and households headed by single moms.
The Insurance coverage Business Charitable Basis is observing Starvation Motion Month – a nationwide effort held each September– by elevating funds in its ongoing combat towards childhood starvation all through its 30th anniversary yr in 2024.
On common, IICF supplies as much as 5 meals for each greenback contributed, working with 11 nonprofit companions that serve communities throughout america and United Kingdom. Donors to the IICF 30th Anniversary Celebration are acknowledged on its web site as IICF Youngsters’s Champions for contributions of $1,000 or higher and all donors contributing $30 or extra.
Donors giving $30 or extra can enroll for a complimentary yr of IICF World Membership, which supplies unique volunteer alternatives and a community of philanthropically minded insurance coverage professionals, famous IICF CEO Invoice Ross.
“We convened an IICF 30th Anniversary Committee of 35 trade leaders within the new yr to assist lead and advance our 30th marketing campaign to lift funds for hungry kids,” Ross stated. “Seven insurance coverage corporations are main inner firm campaigns in assist of IICF’s 30th, elevating and matching funds for hungry kids: CNA, Burns & Wilcox, Falvey Insurance coverage Group, Lockton, Markel, RT Specialty and The Hartford. We hope extra corporations and people will take part.”
The IICF has roughly 400 particular person donors thus far. For each 100 new donors, at solely $30 every, that’s 1000’s of meals they’ll ship to kids in want.
“As we glance again at 30 years of the IICF, it’s encouraging to know we’ve got grown from an effort primarily serving California, with roughly 20 board members, to now increasing as a nationwide and rising worldwide trade basis with greater than 800 insurance coverage professionals, offering private management and volunteer assist, serving on IICF’s worldwide and native boards and committees,” stated Ross.
“All through our 30 years, IICF has maintained a deal with kids in danger, schooling and meals insecurity. Every of our divisions encompasses these focus areas, in addition to extra areas of want particular to every area, together with army veterans, the surroundings, and social mobility,” he stated.
“It’s at all times vital to acknowledge the place we began as a basis, and our imaginative and prescient stays the identical immediately. The IICF is right here to characterize the insurance coverage trade in a united philanthropic effort by offering grants in native communities, industrywide volunteer service and ongoing alternatives for management in our communities and our trade.”
Extra Work Must be Performed
Since 2020, IICF has raised $1.8 million and delivered three million meals by means of its Youngsters’s Reduction Fund, which was launched in response to the worldwide pandemic. However extra must be performed. For people who want to donate, the IICF is grateful to those acts of kindness.
Ross summed it up greatest: “Once we unite to assist others, nice issues occur for everybody – communities, our neighbors in want and our trade!”
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