The Assurant Health Foundation, the charitable arm of Milwaukee-based Assurant Health, recently donated $152,000 in local community grants. “We are very pleased to be able to make these donations to such a wide range of deserving groups,” said Rob Guilbert, President of the Assurant Health Foundation. “These community organizations have done and continue to do outstanding work in the local areas the Foundation focuses on: health care access and promotion, disease prevention, the arts and education, as well as our national public policy initiatives.”
• $10,000 (each) Health Access Initiative grants to:
Next Door Foundation
Children’s Outing Association
Gerald Ignace Clinic
Bread of Healing Clinic
Covenant Health Care
Salvation Army
United Community Center
• $10,000 (each) Community Cornerstone grants to:
AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin
America’s Second Harvest of Wisconsin
Penfield Children’s Center
Task Force on Family Violence
• Cultural Arts grants to:
Ko-Thi Dance Company -- $12,000
AWE (Artists Working in Education) -- $5,000
Latino Arts Organization -- $5,000
Mojeska Youth Theatre -- $5,000
• $10,000 Together We Prepare co-sponsorship with State Farm Insurance Company to benefit the American Red Cross Together We Prepare information booth at Henry Maier Festival Park. Assurant Health and State Farm have an exclusive marketing alliance which makes Assurant Health Individual Medical insurance available through State Farm’s 17,000 agents nationwide.
• $5,000 Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges (WFIC) for WFIC’s College Readiness 21 program.
About the Assurant Health Foundation
For more than 30 years, the Assurant Health Foundation has been dedicated to improving the quality of life in our communities. The Foundation has donated more than $7.5 million in community grants.
About Assurant Health
In business since 1892, Assurant Health provides health insurance coverage for more than one million people nationwide. Assurant Health develops and provides a wide range of individual medical, small group, short term and student health insurance products, as well as non-insurance products. Assurant Health also provides consumer-choice products such as Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements. With almost 3,000 employees, Assurant Health is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., and has operations offices in Minnesota, Idaho, and Florida, as well as sales offices across the country. Assurant Health products are underwritten and issued by Fortis Insurance Company, John Alden Life Insurance Company and Fortis Benefits Insurance Company. The Assurant Health website is www.assuranthealth.com.
Assurant Health is part of Assurant, which offers specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other markets. Its four key businesses – Assurant Employee Benefits, Assurant Health, Assurant Preneed and Assurant Solutions – have partnered with clients who are leaders in their industries and have built leadership positions in a number of specialty market segments in the U.S. and selected international markets. Assurant is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ. The Assurant website is www.assurant.com.