Assurant Employee Benefits, a part of Assurant, Inc.(NYSE: AIZ), is a provider of employee benefit insurance products. The company offers a wide range of employer-paid and employee-paid (voluntary) products, tailor-made for small to mid-size businesses including disability, life and AD&D, dental and reinsurance management services.
Assurant Employee Benefits Nonprofit Service : Matching gifts program
At Assurant Employee Benefits we are proud of the work we do in our local communities. We encourage our employees to give their time to help make our world a better place.
Our efforts focus on:
- Education: emphasis on alternative education, retraining and mentoring/tutoring programs;
- Health and social welfare: emphasis on benefit solutions, such as assisting disabled or displaced workers, their families, and people with special needs;
- Neighborhood preservation: emphasis on building community spirit and improving the quality of life through crime prevention programs, revitalization and environmental projects, neighborhood and youth programs, recreational projects, financial education, race relations and sensitivity to cultural differences.
Assurant Cares
In everything we do, we remember that people count on Assurant. That’s why we encourage our employees to volunteer in the communities where we work and live. We enhance their great works through the charitable giving programs of the Assurant Foundation.
The Assurant companies cultivate deep roots in diverse communities across the United States and in select worldwide markets. We participate in community-based programs by volunteering, through charitable grants and matching gifts.
We encourage our employees to give back to their communities and commend those who actively take time to assist and support those around them. Our commitment to serving local communities in America goes back more than 100 years. That tradition continues today – each and every day.
About the Assurant Foundation
For thirty years, the Assurant Foundation has served as an important resource for nonprofit organizations. The Assurant Foundation is expanding its reach with new charitable grants and a new employee matching gifts program, which will supplement diverse volunteer opportunities. All charitable giving focuses in three areas: health and wellness, homes and property and local hometown help in the communities Assurant serves.
Assurant’s Giving Philosophy reinforces the values of the Company through the Assurant Foundation. The Assurant Foundation’s giving structure has four main components:
- Assurant Employee Matching Gifts Program provides all eligible U.S. Assurant employees the opportunity to request a dollar-for-dollar match for their personal contributions to qualifying charitable organizations. The program is administered through the Assurant Foundation, which matches each gift of $25 or more, up to a total of $1,000 per employee during the calendar year.
- Direct Charitable Grants are made in support of charities in Assurant local communities that provide health and home services to those in need. Beginning in 2012, the Assurant Foundation will no longer accept grant requests directly from charities. Charitable grants will be awarded based on a review by Assurant.
- The United Way Campaign is an annual event where Assurant employees across the enterprise come together to raise money for United Way chapters and affiliate charities in North America. Employees participate in fundraising activities to increase donations to the United Way, reinforce community spirit and help fulfill the nonprofit organization’s goal of advancing the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all.
- Through the Employee Volunteer Program, Assurant employees may take one paid day off each year to volunteer for charitable causes in their communities. Assurant also organizes special volunteer team programs throughout the year, both during and after work hours.
We encourage employees to provide financial assistance to charitable organizations and educational institutions that reflect their individual interests and concerns. Through our Matching Gifts program, we join with employees to support those institutions and organizations that operate for the benefit of the general public good.
Each year, employees donate thousands of hours of service to our communities from organizing blood drives as well as numerous food, clothing, supply and holiday gift drives, and held fund-raising events to benefit dozens of charities.
