The AAMGA at Work COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS 2013 Entry PREPARED BY Arlington/Roe & Co. 8900 Keystone Crossing, Suite 800 Indianapolis, IN 46240 Contact: Bobbi Simmons, PR Director 800-878-9891, Ext. 8585, bsimmons@arlingtonroe.com
PREFACE This holiday greeting, sent to our customers and associates by our president, Jim Roe, reflects the community spirit that is at the core of Arlington/Roe. The Arlington/Roe Team
Arlington/Roe Community Service SUMMARY OFFICIAL ARLINGTON/ROE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS JUNE 1, 2012 THROUGH MARCH 1, 2013 Ronald McDonald House of Indianapolis (June 23, 2012) Backpack Attack School Supply Drive (July 26, 2012) United Way (Fall, 2012) The Autism Society of Indiana (Sept. 17, 2012) St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry Fall Food Drive (Oct. 26 Nov. 16, 2012) Hurricane Sandy Relief (Nov. 13, 2012) Humanitarian Service Project, DuPage and Kane Counties, IL (Nov. 14, 2012) Movember: Team Roevember (Nov. 1 Nov. 30, 2012) Christmas Giving: United Christmas Service (Dec. 20, 2012) Family Haven (December, 2012) Jeans Week (Dec. 26 Dec. 31, 2013) Susan G. Komen for the Cure (contributions made before March 1) American Cancer Society Daffodil Days (contributions made before March 1) Donations to Insurance Education Programs and Insurance Student Scholarships SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOR NINE MONTHS 2012 2013 Over 80% of Arlington/Roe employees participated in community service Over $45,600 and countless hours were donated The following pages feature highlights of official Arlington/Roe activities and individual employee community support as well. THANK YOU FOR READING OUR STORY!
Arlington/Roe Community Service Project Highlights BACKPACK ATTACK SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE JULY 26, 2012 Since 1999, Indy BackPack Attack has made it their mission to collect school supplies for children in the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) as well as other Indiana schools in Marion, Boone, Hancock and Hendricks counties. Arlington/Roe s Indianapolis staff donated over 280 items to Backpack Attack along with 7 backpacks plus cash for this annual school supply drive benefitting Indianapolis Public School students. They have collected over 300,000 items this year to help students throughout Marion County. Stacy Russell, Niki Lucas and Mary Miller (l to r above) took our donations to the IUPUI warehouse and stayed to help sort supplies for four hours. Stacy and Niki were the Queens of Highlighters and Mary was on pen patrol! In addition, at our Louisville office, staffers organized a school supply collection for the children of Morgan County, KY. They worked with Ison Insurance Agency in West Liberty, KY, just as they did to help out with donations after tornadoes wreaked havoc there earlier in 2012.
Arlington/Roe Community Service Project Highlights UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN FALL, 2012 Arlington/Roe continued its partnership with United Way of Central Indiana with our biggest campaign ever: $33,300 was pledged by employees including Jim and Vickie Roe. United Way executives visited Arlington/Roe to say thank you. Family Haven in Michigan and United Christmas Service in Indianapolis were two of the holiday programs our offices supported with generous gifts, food and donations in 2012. The Humanitarian Service Project was supported by our Chicago office staff who worked at their headquarters as well as providing donations. L to R, Andrea Nehring, Audrey Mertes, Angela Cale, Sarah Immordino and Sharon Nerone.
Arlington/Roe Community Service Project Highlights MOVEMBER: TEAM ROEVEMBER NOV. 1 30, 2012 The moustache enthusiasts of Arlington/Roe are embarking on a battle of the truest test of man a thirty day moustache contest entitled Movember. See our team page or make a donation to team Roevember at http://us.movember.com/team/662517 All proceeds funds benefit the Prostate & Testicular Cancer Foundation. Arlington/Roe s Team Roevember celebrated the success of our first ever team for Movember, an international program to benefit men s health. Shown here comparing the international results are Al Grau, Chad Trainor, Eric Frankenberger, Patrick Roe, Ryan Smith and Michael Stanfield, our newest staff member from the UK.
Arlington/Roe Community Service Project Highlights COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SUPPORT AND INSURANCE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS Arlington/Roe contributes annually to various colleges and universities that support insurance and risk management education. In addition, we fund a variety of insurance education scholarships. Arlington/Roe contributed to the renovation of Federal Hall at Indiana State University, now the home of the Scott College of Business. Shown above, Anne Duncan and Jim Roe at the Arlington/Roe & Co. Insurance Teamwork Development Lab, so named because of the extensive support for the ISU Insurance and Risk Management Program given by our company and our employees. Brenda Niederbrach, left, congratulates Mark Rogina, right, on his receipt of one of the Arlington/Roe scholarships given at The Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services at Illinois State University.
Arlington/Roe Community Service Project Highlights UNOFFICIAL CAUSES SUPPORTED BY ARLINGTON/ROE AND OUR PEOPLE Employees support many kinds of community service organizations individually, such as churches, business associations, schools and colleges, fraternal organizations, charities, arts organizations, sports organizations, humane societies and conservation groups. Because we are allowed to share these efforts, we are able to support one another s causes. As Edward Everett Hale said in 1902, I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. That is the spirit of Arlington/Roe. Above, Angela Cale of our Chicago office shows one of the quilts she has made and donated to Project Linus. Right, Molly Schumaker, Indianapolis office, volunteers frequently to assist in the adoption of greyhounds for American Greyhound.
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE ORGANIZATIONS ARLINGTON/ROE EMPLOYEES SUPPORT: American Greyhound Boy Scout Popcorn Sale Catholic Charities Castleton Church of the Nazarene Sunday School Board and Missions Committee Cincinnati Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Dance Marathon for Riley Children s Hospital DECA Dress for Success Fishers Parks and Recreation Board Fishers Rotary Club Fishers Youth Soccer Girl Scout Cookie Drive Goodwill Habitat for Humanity Head and Neck Cancer Alliance (Macy s Shop for a Cause) Indiana Blood Center Indianapolis Humane Society Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Knights of Columbus Multiple Sclerosis Society National Kidney Foundation Riley Children s Hospital Ronald McDonald House Roncalli High School Salvation Army Scecina Memorial High School Board of Directors Sertoma Shepherd Community Center Smithsonian Speedway Lions Club St. Elizabeth Seton Church St. Joan of Arc Church and Grade School St. Luke s United Methodist Church St. Vincent DePaul Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Committee The Linus Project (quilts) Thrifty Threads (part of the Julian Center for battered women and their children) Wheeler Mission The Arlington/Roe spirit is reflected in this comment about a family receiving help from one of our team members and her family in Illinois: We have been doing this for 6 years and will do it for at least 6 more years. The reason I am providing this information is because it is not always the money you throw at a problem but the caring that makes the difference. Brenda Niederbrach Illinois Marketing Manager Arlington/Roe & Co.