Green Bay Packer Jayrone Elliott, UnitedHealthcare Help Beautify Townsend Street School, Announce Second Year of “Blessings...
17 May 2017 - 6:37AM
Business Wire
- Weekend healthy-food program for
students made possible by a donation from UnitedHealthcare
Green Bay Packers linebacker Jayrone Elliott and
UnitedHealthcare teamed up today for a volunteer service project at
Milwaukee Public Schools’ Townsend Street School in the Sherman
Park neighborhood.
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Redona Williams, Townsend Elementary
School principal; Jayrone Elliott, Green Bay Packers linebacker;
Dustin Hinton, CEO and president, UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin;
and Dr. Reginald Lawrence II, regional superintendent, Milwaukee
Public Schools, announced UnitedHealthcare’s $11,000 donation to
Elliott’s Dreambuilders program at Townsend Street School in
Milwaukee. The donation will be used to fund Blessings in a
Backpack, a national nonprofit that provides students with bags of
nutritious food each weekend (Photo courtesy of
UnitedHealthcare).
Employee volunteers from UnitedHealthcare helped beautify the
school by mulching and pulling weeds, painting walls, and
reorganizing and restocking bookshelves in the school library.
Elliott, the 2016 Green Bay Packers Walter Payton Man of the
Year, joined the UnitedHealthcare employees at the school for the
volunteer activity and to announce support of the Blessings in a
Backpack program for another academic year. UnitedHealthcare
donated $11,000 to Elliott’s Dreambuilders program to fund
Blessings in a Backpack, a national nonprofit that provides
students with bags of nutritious food. Beginning with the new
school year in August, more than 100 students will leave Townsend
every Friday with healthy food and snacks for the weekend.
During today’s event, Elliott and UnitedHealthcare donated
backpacks of healthy food to all of Townsend’s 320 students.
“Making sure children have healthy food available on the weekend
is very important to me, and I’m excited to partner with
UnitedHealthcare to ensure that takes place at Townsend Street
School,” said Elliott. “The food we give these kids each Friday
during the school year through Blessings in a Backpack will make
sure they get the nutrition they need.”
“UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to support
Townsend Street School and partner with Jayrone Elliott’s
Dreambuilders to promote healthy lifestyles and good eating
habits,” said Dustin Hinton, president and CEO, UnitedHealthcare of
Wisconsin.
Last year, in addition to supporting Blessings in a Backpack,
UnitedHealthcare granted funds to Townsend to renovate a student
activity center.
“We are fortunate to have partners who care deeply about the
community they serve and the children who live in it,” said Dr.
Darienne Driver, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. “We
hope the generosity of UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin and Jayrone
Elliott’s Dreambuilders program inspires others to action.”
This project is the latest in UnitedHealthcare’s “Do Good. Live
Well.” employee volunteer initiative, whose mission is to prevent
hunger and obesity, inspire service and encourage volunteerism. For
more information about the benefits of volunteering and to find
local opportunities to get involved, visit www.DoGoodLiveWell.org.
Follow @DoGoodLiveWell on Twitter or “like” Do Good. Live Well. on
Facebook.
About Blessings in a
BackpackHunger has both short- and long-term negative
effects on children’s health and ability to succeed in school.
Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals and
resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school
children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Blessings in
a Backpack currently feeds more than 76,000 children in 44 states
and the District of Columbia. For more information visit
www.blessingsinabackpack.org.
About DreambuildersThe
Dreambuilders Foundation is a non-profit organization that works
with pro athletes across the country to help financially,
physically and mentally-challenged kids receive the items,
opportunities and equipment they need to reach their dreams.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
About Milwaukee Public
SchoolsMilwaukee Public Schools is committed to
accelerating student achievement, building positive relationships
between youth and adults and cultivating leadership at all levels.
The district’s commitment to improvement continues to show
results:
- More MPS students are taking
college-level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate
courses;
- The MPS Class of 2015 earned $39+
million in scholarships; and
- MPS is home to seven of the state’s top
high schools according to U.S. News and World Report and the
Washington Post.
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Milwaukee Public SchoolsDenise Callaway,
414-475-8650callawde@milwaukee.k12.wi.usorDreambuildersRyan
Altizer, 615-330-6969ryan@iconsports.usorUnitedHealthcareTony
Marusic, 312-363-7714tony_marusic@uhc.com
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