Everyone who gets involved on behalf of a charitableorganization has that one story in which their efforts were broughtinto sharp, human focus—that transformative moment in which theysaw a life changed, even if just for a little while.

Kim Saccaro remembers hers. It involves a little boy and a dozenbooks.

An event hosted at the Harold WashingtonLibrary Center, the main branch of Chicago's Public Library, sawnearly 300 kids between the ages of 3 and 5 bussed in to take partin sessions tied to the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation's“Every Day is a Reading and Writing Day” initiative, a partnershipwith Sesame Workshop that provides tools for early literacydevelopment. Some 300 volunteers representing various companies inthe business of property & casualty insurance were on hand,paired up with the children for activity sessions designed tofoster, among other things, a love of reading.

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Shawn Moynihan

Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].