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Cover Story: Charity Works

It's time to elevate the conversation about the insurance business charitable work and those it touches.

By Shawn Moynihan | Updated on December 08, 2014

Everyone who gets involved on behalf of a charitable organization has that one story in which their efforts were brought into sharp, human focus—that transformative moment in which they saw a life changed, even if just for a little while.

Kim Saccaro remembers hers. It involves a little boy and a dozen books.

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

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Shawn Moynihan

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].

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