By Loretta Worters, Vice President, Media Relations, Triple-I
One in 5 U.S. kids is not sure the place they’ll get their subsequent meal, in keeping with the U.S. Division of Agriculture. In 2022, 33 % of single-parent households skilled meals insecurity, and the issue is very acute for households of coloration and households headed by single moms.
The Insurance coverage Trade 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 thirtieth anniversary 12 months in 2024.
On common, IICF offers 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 thirtieth Anniversary Celebration are acknowledged on its web site as IICF Kids’s Champions for contributions of $1,000 or larger and all donors contributing $30 or extra.
Donors giving $30 or extra can enroll for a complimentary 12 months 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 thirtieth Anniversary Committee of 35 trade leaders within the new 12 months to assist lead and advance our thirtieth marketing campaign to lift funds for hungry kids,” Ross stated. “Seven insurance coverage corporations are main inner firm campaigns in help of IICF’s thirtieth, 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 up to now. For each 100 new donors, at solely $30 every, that’s 1000’s of meals they will ship to kids in want.
“As we glance again at 30 years of the IICF, it’s encouraging to know we’ve 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 help, serving on IICF’s worldwide and native boards and committees,” stated Ross.
“All through our 30 years, IICF has maintained a give attention to kids in danger, training and meals insecurity. Every of our divisions encompasses these focus areas, in addition to further areas of want particular to every area, together with navy veterans, the setting, and social mobility,” he stated.
“It’s all the time essential to acknowledge the place we began as a basis, and our imaginative and prescient stays the identical as we speak. 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 Achieved
Since 2020, IICF has raised $1.8 million and delivered three million meals by its Kids’s Reduction Fund, which was launched in response to the worldwide pandemic. However extra must be carried out. For those 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 trade!”
