{"id":200,"date":"2017-06-08T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T09:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2018-10-18T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:36:44","slug":"make-more-happen-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/make-more-happen-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Make More Happen Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are so happy to announce<\/span><\/strong> that we have won the\u00a02017<\/span><\/em> Make More Happen Award<\/span><\/em> from\u00a0<\/span>@SafecoInsurance for our volunteer work with Kids\u2019 Food Basket! This award donates $5,000 to Kids\u2019 Food Basket. The coolest part of this award is that if we can get 50+ likes, share<\/span>s, and\/or comments on our story that\u2019s posted on Safeco\u2019s website, then they will donate another $5,000! A huge thank you to Safeco Insurance, for this opportunity to give back to the community!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kids Food Basket\u2019s mission<\/span><\/strong> is to stop childhood hunger in the com<\/span>munity. They currently work with schools in the greater Grand Rapids area. When a school has 80% of its students on a Government Assisted Program for lunch, Kids Food Basket steps in to help prepare \u201cSack Supers\u201d for the children. Typically, the hot lunches they receive at school is their last meal of the day.<\/span>The sack suppers <\/span>allow<\/span> the students to have healthy meals for dinner. Not only does this help the children, but allevi<\/span>ates the stress of the parents who are una<\/span>ble to afford to feed their families. Unfortunately, there are schools on the waiting list to receive Sack Suppers; meaning, there are hungry children going without dinner. Being able to provide \u201cSack Suppers\u201d to the children as they leave school provides them with a\u00a0<\/span>healthy<\/span> dinner; giving them the strength and energy to begin school the next day. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Their own impact in our community has not gone unrecognized! Kids Food Basket received the \u201cGovernors Service Lifetime Achievement Award\u201d for volunteerism. They were chosen for this honor from a list of 160 nominees committed to community involvement. They also received \u201cHonor and Award from Palace Sports & Entertainment and the Detroit Pistons\u201d. They were one of 3 recipients recognized by Palace Sports<\/span>\u00a0for th<\/span>eir volunteerism in the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our personal lines manager<\/span><\/strong>,<\/span> Phalesha Kyes, has a personal background with this nonprofit organization and has a very touching story that gives insight as to how Kids\u2019 Food Basket has changed the lives of children and the importance of giving back. Ryan Kyes, the owner of our agency, and his wife, Amara Kyes, adopted Phalesha and her sisters from inner-city Grand Rapids. Ryan and Amara continue to give to this charity that provided for their daughters before they were brought into they\u2019re home by dropping off a donation check biannually. In addition to this, the office staff commits time each month to head over and <\/span>pack these suppers. Due to the high involvement and history of Kids Food Basket in the Kyes\u2019 family, Phalesha was asked to be the Keynote speaker at their \u201cFeast for Kids\u201d event that happened in May and is shown in the pictures here. Our goal is to raise money to help Kids Food Basket extend their work to schools currently on the waiting list.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Importance:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how hard it is to focus in school (or on anything for that matter) when \u2018food\u2019 is the only thing on your mind. We easily take for granted the luxury of grabbing food on our lunch break, or planning dinner; this relationship with Kids Food Basket allows us to appreciate those amenities and learn to not take that for granted. Our favorite part about volunteering is that we can make such a large impact on a child\u2019s life; knowing we are helping children right in our back yard. Helping kids who have no control over their food situation is an unforgettable experience. For as little as $1 per meal, a child gets dinner. It is extremely humbling to serve those in need, especially children.<\/span><\/p>\n

While reading a letter written to Kid\u2019s Food Basket from a student recipient, they expressed how much they appreciated receiving the food and how it helped them to \u201cbe strong\u201d. They also expressed how much they loved the decorated bags and how they keep them on their wall as art. Our agency took part in their \u201cDecorate a Bag\u201d campaign, striving to obtain a goal of 2,500 decorated lunch bags to serve Sack Suppers. We turned in 200 decorated bags!\u00a0 Seeing the smile on the kids\u2019 faces, or reading the letters, brings such joy to our agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’d like to volunteer you can sign up here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.kidsfoodbasket.org\/ \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We are so happy to announce that we have won the\u00a02017 Make More Happen Award from\u00a0@SafecoInsurance for our volunteer work with Kids\u2019 Food Basket! This award donates $5,000 to Kids\u2019 Food Basket. The coolest part of this award is that if we can get 50+ likes, shares, and\/or comments on our story that\u2019s posted on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}