McLean, VA – January 24, 2024 – Acentra Health, a technology and health solutions and services company dedicated to accelerating better outcomes for government healthcare agencies and the priority populations they serve, raised a total of $34,000 in December to fight hunger in the U.S. and India. The funds were raised during the company’s annual “Be the Light” employee-employer match campaign, which invited employees to “be the light of hope against the darkness of hunger” by supporting food banks and hunger relief organizations in their local communities.
Over the course of the two-week campaign, company leadership challenged employees to demonstrate Acentra Health’s core value of passionately serving our communities by donating cash, food, and/or volunteering time to support a community food bank or hunger relief organization of their choice. Employees were also encouraged to use their volunteer time off (VTO) benefit during the campaign. Acentra Health committed to a one-for-one match of logged donations and assigned a dollar value for each logged volunteer activity. Match dollars were designated to support No Kid Hungry, a national U.S. campaign run by Share Our Strength that works to end child hunger, and No Hungry Child, which provides midday meals for impoverished children in India.
“As a company committed to accelerating better health outcomes, we know that access to quality food is a significant social determinant of health for children,” said Acentra Health CEO Todd Stottlemyer. “I am proud to witness how our employees lived out our core values in the fight against hunger, and equally proud of how Acentra Health stands behind those values by providing our employees an annual VTO leave benefit to passionately serve their communities.”
During the campaign, company employees supported hunger relief organizations in 26 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and six states in India during the campaign. Those results round out a year of giving back through Acentra Health’s corporate social responsibility program. In 2023, employee- and corporate-driven philanthropic and volunteer support touched 36 U.S. states and Washington D.C.; six states in India; as well as Belize and Kenya; over 1,600 hours of volunteering; and $190,000 donated.
Acentra Health’s annual Be the Light campaign theme borrows from the many year-end multicultural holidays that use colorful and bright lights symbolizing hope in the face of darkness.
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