Employees of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life®) voted to have four Twin Cities’ charities receive $25,000 each to support their mission as part of the company’s Employee-Elected Charities program for 2016—American Cancer Society, Animal Humane Society, Feed My Starving Children, and HopeKids. In addition to the contribution, Allianz Life employees will volunteer their time to events with each charity throughout the year.
Since the Employee-Elected Charities program began, Allianz Life has given more than $1 million to charities in the community. To be nominated as an employee-elected charity, 10 or more Allianz Life employees must have volunteered with the organization during the previous year.
“This program directly reflects the wishes of our employees who give their time and energy to these charities,” said Allianz Life President and CEO Walter White. “I’m proud that our corporate donations can represent and reinforce our employees’ personal commitment to these organizations each year.”
Allianz Life provides each employee eight hours of paid time off annually to volunteer for the charity of their choice. In 2015, nearly 1,100 employees volunteered more than 15,000 hours in the community, the equivalent of approximately $356,900 of in-kind donations.
