The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) is recruiting volunteers for its annual Week of Giving. The eight-day event, held nationwide, will run from October 10-17. During the Week of Giving, insurance industry teams and individual volunteers provide three or more hours of volunteer service to local nonprofit organizations nationwide.
Through the participation of more than 6,000 volunteers from more than 100 companies, the IICF will host more than 200 volunteer events in over 87 cities across the U.S. Projects cover a wide range of service areas including: education, food programs, homeless programs, youth and children, housing, health, arts, women's issues, disability, senior issues and disaster preparedness.
IICF Week of Giving also promotes a personal "giving" campaign. Donations directly benefit IICF's Early Literacy Initiative and Every Day is a Reading and Writing Day program, which is part of a partnership between IICF and Sesame Street. Launched in 
2013, the partnership started as a significant push by the insurance industry to strategically impact literacy development among underserved children.
Throughout the month of October, individuals can make an online donation of any size by visiting www.weekofgiving.iicf.org. Donors can also show their support to help drive further awareness and grassroots donations by participating in the IICF's #5forELI social-media campaign, by using the#5forELI hashtag.
All donations from Week of Giving and the #5forELI program will go towards the Sesame Workshop and the IICF Early Literacy Initiative.
Interested volunteers can visit www.weekofgiving.iicf.org or contact the IICF office at (925) 280-8009 for more information about the Week of Giving, to register a volunteer team, or to make a donation. Visit www.sesamestreet.org/literacy to learn more about Every Day is a Reading and Writing Day.
For NU editor-in-chief Shawn Moynihan's perspective on volunteering, read The Gift.
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