IICF Celebrates Week of Giving

The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities and enriching lives, hosted the annual IICF Week of Giving, a celebration of the insurance industry’s year-round dedication to volunteerism, from October 14–21.

According to a press release, thousands of insurance professionals gathered across the US and UK to participate in service projects and give back to their communities.

“Ours is an industry committed to volunteerism and philanthropy, and we’re proud to celebrate our collective impact during the IICF Week of Giving,” said Bill Ross, CEO of IICF. “We see the commitment of insurance professionals giving back through IICF each year, and as we approach the thirtieth anniversary of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation in 2024, we are energized and excited to continue offering creative and meaningful volunteer projects that benefit our nonprofit partners, neighbors and communities.”

IICF reports that the Week of Giving provides essential resources and support to assist causes such as education, safety, food and housing insecurity, disaster preparedness, children at risk and more. Major projects from this year’s philanthropic celebration included:

• An early literacy event with nonprofit partner Breakthrough in Chicago. Approximately 60 children between ages 2 and 5 were guided through interactive literacy activities by 40 volunteers from several insurance companies. Open Books, another IICF nonprofit partner, donated books for the kids to take home and provided a children’s storyteller at the event, which concluded with a group dance party.
• More than eight Week of Giving volunteer projects across multiple office locations in the Northeast US. Post & Schell, a board member company of IICF’s Philadelphia Chapter, organized the projects across multiple office locations with Manna, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Gift of Life Howie’s House, The Lehigh Valley Humane Society, Angels in Motion, Family House, Susquehanna Service Dogs, and the IICF Share the Warmth Coat Drive. Since 2017, Post & Schell’s Week of Giving contributions have benefited more than 50 charitable organizations, helped diverse communities and directly helped people in need.
• The washing of more than 45,000 headstones of fallen US servicemen and servicewomen at the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston national cemeteries. A record number of nearly 600 insurance leaders in Texas joined together in the two cities in what has become a tradition over the past decade to honor fallen soldiers and their families. Volunteers representing more than 32 companies in the IICF Southeast Division cleaned the headstones.
• A food drive in Seattle and Portland that provided more than 2,000 meals to Sunshine Division (OR) and Rainier Valley Food Bank (WA). IICF’s Pacific Northwest Chapter volunteers also packed bags and sorted donations. Leaders delivered an “Insurance 101” presentation, sharing why insurance is needed and what an insurance career can look like, to Summer Search scholars and young adults. Summer Search works with resilient low-income high school students and inspires them to become responsible and altruistic leaders by providing year-round mentoring, college advising and more.
• One-on-one CV and interview sessions with six women supported by Women’s Inclusive Team, an IICF grant recipient charity that provides training and community services to ethnic women in East London. Members of IICF UK’s Associate Board also joined with WIT volunteers to make dozens of samosas for an upcoming art event hosted by the charity.

IICF’s 2024 Week of Giving is scheduled for Oct. 12–19, 2024.

Learn more and register for IICF’s volunteering projects throughout the year at http://www.volunteer.iicf.org/.

About the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF)

The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) is a unique nonprofit that unites the collective strengths of the insurance industry to help communities and enrich lives through grants, volunteer service and leadership. Established in 1994, IICF has served as the philanthropic voice and foundation of the insurance industry for close to thirty years, contributing more than $45 million in community grants along with over 325,000 volunteer hours by more than 115,000 industry professionals. IICF reinvests locally where funds are raised, serving hundreds of charities and nonprofit organizations for maximum community impact.

IICF is a registered nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. Learn more at www.iicf.org.