American Income Life's Community Involvement
American Income Founder Bernard Rapoport believed that if you take from the community, you must also give back to the community, whether it’s where you live, work, or visit.
When AIL representatives visit customers in their homes, they ask for a donation of non-perishable foods to help stock local food banks. Each holiday season, local offices collect toys for children in need. When disaster strikes, AIL is on the front lines to help provide what is needed.
Whenever members of our sales force visit other communities for meetings and conventions, we partner with a local charity through our Closer to the Heart program. We collect donations which go directly to the organization and, whenever possible, engage in hands-on volunteer opportunities.
The projects listed below are but a few of our Closer to the Heart partnerships.
Pack of Hope
Waco, TX – January 2018
AIL/NILICO was proud to support McLennan County Pack of Hope last night at their fundraising event where Sr. Director of Underwriting, Jennifer Low presented them with a donation of $10,000 to help support their work in the local community. Pack of Hope's mission is to erase child hunger by supplying participating school districts and students who qualify with backpacks of food for the weekends when there is no access to school-provided meals.
Square Peg Foundation
Half Moon Bay, CA — Fall 2016
Square Peg pairs rescued horses with autistic kids in their therapeutic riding program. The kids are as good for the horses as the horses are for the kids. Volunteers helped with light chores, learned about the program, and observed training and lessons. Donations: $10,150
Children in Crisis
Destin, FL — Spring 2016
Children in Crisis provides hope for abused, neglected, and abandoned children in the community. The Children’s Neighborhood has an emergency shelter and family foster homes that augment the shortage of foster homes in the community. Volunteers helped with spring cleaning the group homes in the Children’s Neighborhood. Donations: $28,700
Guanacaste Community Fund
Guanacaste, Costa Rica — Spring 2015
This organization funds various programs in this underserved rural area. Volunteers visited a CECUDI (a Spanish acronym for day care center) and played with the children, mostly children of local workers. The country’s unstable government withdrew funding before the center was completed. Donations helped finish inside facilities such as restrooms. Donations: $12,950
Samaritan Inn
McKinney, TX — Fall 2014
The agency is a comprehensive homeless program that helps willing people gain dignity and independence. All services and support are provided free of charge through funding made from donations. Volunteers assembled holiday meal baskets for Samaritan Inn’s community outreach program. Donations (including materials): $45,950
Homeless Prenatal Program
San Francisco, CA — Spring 2014
This program strives to break the cycle of childhood poverty by providing prenatal health and education for homeless and disadvantaged moms. Convention attendees brought baby outfits for HPP’s baby showers. Almost everyone who works for the organization is a former client. Donations: $26,340