Volunteerism: Good for the community and good for you! – Kate Maehr
Kate Maehr, Greater Chicago Food Depository
We are living stressed-out lives. Yet there is really clear data that people who volunteer regularly have less hypertension, better sleep patterns, less depression, and they live longer. The message here is not only is it the right thing to do, it is also really good for you.
Kate Maehr understands the importance of helping those less fortunate – importance not only to the recipient, but also to the giver, not only in terms of better health, but also as a career enhancer.
“The employees that stand up and say, ‘I would like to volunteer,” are the ones the company wants to invest in,” say Maehr.
In this MarketsWiki Education talk, she relays her first experience with the Chicago financial community, in the form of an unassuming but regular volunteer who turned out to be the late Robert Forney, then president and CEO of the Chicago Stock Exchange.
In 2009, she further witnessed the charitable power of the local financial sector when the Futures Industry Association chose the Greater Chicago Food Depository as the charity of choice for its annual FIA Expo gala. Since then, FIA members have raised more than $2.5 million for the food bank.
“I have yet to meet anyone,” she says, “who thinks it’s OK, in the most beautiful city in the world, with the most fabulous, caring community, to have people who struggle to have food to eat. But this is not a problem of supply; this is a problem of engagement and will. For that, we need volunteers. We need you.”
A powerful message for our entire industry, from the newest intern to the exchange CEO.
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