OUR COMMUNITY
It's Who We Are
American Fidelity’s leaders believe that to have a strong company, you must have a strong community. As a result, the American Fidelity Foundation distributed nearly $1.4 million in 2017 to organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life in Oklahoma City and beyond. The Company also partners directly with other organizations to support education and other important community initiatives.
Our Colleagues get in on the act of giving as well. Each month, they donate about $1,250 to a designated charity. Collectively, they also support the United Way, Allied Arts, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and Buchanan Elementary, our partner school. Individual divisions and departments also sponsor volunteer efforts and donation drives to organizations of their choice.
2017 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Annually, American Fidelity hosts a pair of worksite giving campaigns to support Allied Arts and the United Way. Each spring, Colleagues host a variety of creative fundraisers to support Allied Arts. In 2017, Colleagues pledged more than $45,000 to Allied Arts, and the AF Foundation also contributed $60,000. A fall campaign helps set the pace for the United Way of Central Oklahoma’s annual effort. Colleagues pledged to donate a record amount of $362,044 while the Foundation added $220,000 to the mix.
The AF Foundation coupled with corporate donations provided grants totaling more than $1 million to over 150 individual agencies. In addition, the Foundation matched $86,167 in donations made by individual Colleagues, doubling the impact of those individual donations to organizations nationwide.
AGENCIES
$1 MILLION TO OVER
THOUSAND
The Foundation matched over
in donations made by individual Colleagues
The Company continued its partnerships with the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, the WNBA’s Dallas Wings, KFOR’s Weatherschool, the Teacher Feature on Magic 104 FM radio, our partner school Buchanan Elementary and others.
AF sponsors the Thunder’s literacy programs including the Rolling Thunder Book Bus, Teacher of the Game,
Read to Achieve Reading Timeouts and the Reading Challenge. Since its debut in 2007, the Rolling Thunder Book Bus has distributed about 145,000 books and visited about 1,900 schools and day care groups.
The Rolling Thunder book bus
has distributed about
145,000 Books
Visited about
1,900 schools and day care groups
In the 2016-17 school year, more than 550 schools participated in the Reading Challenge, and about 46,750 students logged more than 28 million minutes of reading.
The Company’s paid volunteer time program continued to provide time for Colleagues to volunteer for non-profit organizations or schools and match their paid personal time with paid volunteer time. Colleagues used about 660 hours of paid volunteer time, meaning they spent more than 1,300 hours working in the community during business hours. Colleagues are allowed up to 20 hours a year.
SCHOOLS
Participated in the Reading Challenge
MILLION
minutes of reading
660
Hours of paid volunteer time
1,300
Hours working in the community during business hours
20
Hours Colleagues are allowed
This year’s Famboree, an event each fall for Colleagues and their family members, raised funds and awareness for four local agencies. All Paw’s Rescue, All Things Baby, City Rescue Mission and No Boundaries International all received $2,000 and were invited to the event to talk with Colleagues.
The American Fidelity Foundation and the family of companies are proud to be strong corporate citizens committed to building a vibrant community for our Colleagues and Customers.
We believe it’s always the right time to do the right thing.
Tom McDaniel
AF Foundation President
