Chubb To Sponsor Meal Program For People With AIDS
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has signed on as a major corporate sponsor of Community Servings, a program that delivers free meals to more than 650 people ill with AIDS in the metropolitan Boston area.
Chubb will contribute $50,000 to the program, as well as assist Community Servings in its efforts to obtain additional financial and volunteer support. This represents the largest corporate donation to the organization to date and the only by an insurance company.
"We have been a very fortunate organization, and we feel that this is a perfect way to give back to the community," said Kevin Hogan, personal lines manager for Chubb & Son in Boston. "At the same time, our association with Community Servings will help us raise our visibility within the gay and lesbian community. Chubb is one of the few insurers to provide homeowners and umbrella insurance to same-sex couples."
"We are very pleased that Chubb has joined our roster of sponsors," said Community Servings Executive Director David Waters. "Community Servings is honored to work with a company of Chubb's stature. Chubb is respected as a leading insurer, and this is a great way to assist those in need. Chubb's donation will help us serve another 50 clients."
As part of its sponsorship, Chubb will be involved with events intended to raise additional funds for Community Servings. At the first event, held in mid-November at New England's leading auction house, Skinner Auctioneers, more than 90 invited guests viewed a special preview of American and European paintings and heard from three experts on preserving fine arts and antiques.
Chubb also will be a title sponsor of LifeSavor 2000 on March 23. Following a cocktail reception at Hotel Meridien, 800 guests will travel by trolley to 75 of Boston's finest restaurants, where they and a local celebrity will dine on a five-course meal. LifeSavor '99 raised $300,000 for Community Servings, and in 1997, the event won Boston Magazine's "Best of Boston" award.
In addition, Chubb will participate in a volunteer recruitment advertising campaign expected to appear in the gay and lesbian press in early 2000. Chubb will sponsor the organization's Christmas Eve meal. Several employees from Chubb's Boston office will help to prepare and package holiday meals on December 22.
Founded in 1990, Community Servings delivers a nutritional meal Monday to Friday to people who are too ill to shop and cook for themselves, as well as those who depend on them. With help from 40 to 50 volunteers, a small staff prepares meals in an industrial kitchen in Roxbury and delivers them to clients by van. Meals are designed to deliver a full day's nutrition and work in concert with drugs that depend on foods to be absorbed into the body. The organization receives less than half its funding from public sources, and relies heavily on support from private foundations, corporations and individual donors.