By Loretta Worters, Vice President, Media Relations, Triple-I
One in 5 U.S. youngsters is uncertain the place they may get their subsequent meal, in keeping with 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 coloration 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 struggle in opposition to childhood starvation all through its 30th anniversary yr in 2024.
On common, IICF offers as much as 5 meals for each greenback contributed, working with 11 nonprofit companions that serve communities throughout the US 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 offers 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 business leaders within the new yr to assist lead and advance our 30th marketing campaign to boost funds for hungry youngsters,” Ross stated. “Seven insurance coverage corporations are main inner firm campaigns in assist of IICF’s 30th, elevating and matching funds for hungry youngsters: 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 hundreds of meals they will ship to youngsters in want.
“As we glance again at 30 years of the IICF, it’s encouraging to know we now have grown from an effort primarily serving California, with roughly 20 board members, to now increasing as a nationwide and rising worldwide business 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 youngsters in danger, training 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 essential to acknowledge the place we began as a basis, and our imaginative and prescient stays the identical right now. The IICF is right here to signify the insurance coverage business in a united philanthropic effort by offering grants in native communities, industrywide volunteer service and ongoing alternatives for management in our communities and our business.”
Extra Work Must be Accomplished
Since 2020, IICF has raised $1.8 million and delivered three million meals via its Youngsters’s Aid Fund, which was launched in response to the worldwide pandemic. However extra must be executed. For people who want to donate, the IICF is grateful to those acts of kindness.
Ross summed it up finest: “Once we unite to assist others, nice issues occur for everybody – communities, our neighbors in want and our business!”
