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First Citizens Bank's leadership team volunteered at Community Kitchen of North Iowa. The community bank allows employees to pick causes
that are important to them to spend time volunteering.
clinic where people could go to get
free healthcare. We were bold, and we
hired a doctor and other staff rather
than relying on volunteers. "
As a result, the organization ended
up depleting its reserves and fell into
a dire fi nancial situation. It faced the
prospect of having to considerably
scale back the clinic. " I realized that
there had to be some organizations
out there that could help us, "
Moreland says.
He visited a friend who was with
the state's Division of Family and
Children Services, and who knew
every organization that raised
funds for groups like the clinic. The
good news was that most of these
organizations wanted to help. The
bad news was that the help could not
be immediate.
" They showed us foot-tall stacks
of papers with applications, vetting
processes, etc., and told us that, if
everything went well, we might be
able to receive funding in a year or
two, " Moreland says. This was a
problem, given that the clinic needed
to meet payroll the next month. " As
a result, we ended up having to scale
back the clinic, " he says.
Moreland decided that he wanted
to start his own foundation, one
that wouldn't deliver services but
would use the bank's brand as a way
to generate attention, interest and
money to provide grants to existing
nonprofi ts. The Heritage Community
Foundation launched in January
2015. The bank pays 100 percent
of its operating costs, including its
executive director's salary.
The next step was to create a board
of directors made up of non-executive
employees of the bank, including
tellers, bookkeepers and loan offi cers.
Moreland then reached out to the
bank's employees and asked if they
I have worked at a number of places where management talks
about volunteering, but there is no real action. Here, there
is action. In fact, senior management is just as involved in
volunteering as all of the employees are. "
-Jon Prebeck, First Citizens Bank
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