In recent years, IASA has conducted an outreach program with a variety of charitable organizations, which were highlighted at the annual conference. But this year the organization decided to focus its charitable contributions on young people looking to earn a degree in an insurance-related course of study.
"We decided to get back to a linkage with our education roots," says Joe Pomilia, executive director of IASA. "Supporting the education of talented and worthy college students is at the heart of what IASA is all about."
Pomilia believes the outreach charitable program of the last few years has been a success, and he doesn't discount the possibility of it returning, but IASA felt it was important to put its resources into a scholarship program this year.
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