OneAmerica Celebrates Local Office Expansion with Week of Caring For United Way

OneAmerica® will up the ante on community kindness, as Milwaukee area associates celebrate their local office expansion with a Week of Caring for United Way.

Sixty volunteers from the Park Place and Milwaukee Center OneAmerica offices will pitch in to help seven United Way agencies and kick off an annual giving campaign.

“As OneAmerica continues to grow in the Milwaukee area, our commitment to the community deepens as well,” said Scott Davison, president and CEO for the companies of OneAmerica. “Community service is a cycle that enriches everyone, even if recipients never know who gives, and givers never meet those they help.  When people are educated, families are fed, kids are cared for and the homeless have help, it makes the communities in which we live and work even more vibrant.”

Week of Caring community volunteer efforts are connected to the opening of a new, consolidated OneAmerica office at the Meadowland Research & Technology Center in Wauwatosa. The new center will come on line near the one-year anniversary of the OneAmerica acquisition of BMO Global Asset Management's Milwaukee-based retirement services business on Sept. 30, 2015.  

“I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate our growing local footprint than by contributing to our community,” said Mark Schnabl, vice president, OneAmerica retirement services operations. “Serving others is part of our DNA, and our associates are eager to support so many worthy causes during the Week of Caring and beyond.”

Volunteers will help the agencies listed below by harvesting produce, reading to children, contributing to literacy programs, stocking food pantries, and helping older adults freshen their job hunting skills. A Week of Caring is something OneAmerica has done in Indianapolis and other locations annually since 2014, and associates are excited to bring the successful community volunteer effort to Milwaukee.  

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SCHEDULE

Monday, September 19th
Hunger Task Force Farm: Cultivate, weed, harvest and wash fresh produce for the hungry in Milwaukee County (15 volunteers)  

Tuesday, September 20th
Next Door: Reading one-on-one or to a small group of children ages 2-5 (12 volunteers)

Boys & Girls Club: Volunteers facilitate various literacy based activities focused on health & wellness, spelling, art and more (40 volunteers)

Wednesday, September 21st
Penfield Children's Center: Help kids ages 2-6 create art masterpieces (12 volunteers)

Thursday, September 22nd
Next Door: Help clean, repair and label gently used children's books to get them ready for distribution (10 volunteers)
Friedens Community Ministries: Help unload and stock monthly food deliveries (5 volunteers)

Friday, September 23rd
Interfaith at Washington Park Senior Center: Help older adults freshen their job hunting skills and learn the basics for interviewing and resumes today (20 volunteers)

In addition to the above volunteer projects we are also have donation bins located at both locations for both non-perishable food items and gently used children’s books both of which collections have started this week so we can have them ready for next week’s volunteers to take to the volunteer locations.

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