MGIC has been a landmark employer in downtown Milwaukee for more than 60 years, sitting across from City Hall in the heart of the city. We are passionate about our home and our role as a responsible corporate citizen. The challenge is to identify opportunities that will have the most impact on our co-workers and community, supporting diversity initiatives, strengthening ties with our neighbors, and providing mutually beneficial opportunities for growth and development.

We approach our community investment through two channels – partnerships and our corporate donations program. This allows us to:

• sponsor and support organizations that strengthen our community while providing service and development opportunities to our co-workers
• sponsor and support organizations and initiatives that strengthen our community, independent of service opportunities

Since 2019, we have purposefully expanded our reach to partner with organizations that help us strengthen our community through a diversity and inclusion lens.

Sponsorship and Partnerships
Below is a list of some of the causes and programs we support and sponsor that help make our community more sustainable:

•  Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity builds and renovates homes for families in need of sustainable housing. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic our co-workers volunteered in the Habitat retail store and on crews during Habitat Build Days. From 2009 to 2015, our co-workers participated in 55 Habitat Build Days. In 2020, we donated funds to offset the lack of volunteer groups due to the COVID-19 crisis.
• Junior Achievement is a nonprofit dedicated to giving young people the skills they need to own their own economic success. In 2020’s virtual environment, three of our co-workers created videos about their career goals and journeys for use in the program.
• Secure Futures provides financial education to Milwaukee-area teens. Our co-worker volunteers serve as tutors for the program.
• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Work Study program provides valuable work experience and coaching to students from a socio-economically disadvantaged Milwaukee high school. Although we were not able to host students in 2020 due to COVID-19, we have worked with four students each year for the past four years. In 2020, we provided financial support to the school.
•  Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee (HPGM). We partner with this nonprofit group that is dedicated to supporting Hispanic students and professionals in the Milwaukee region through leadership growth opportunities, professional development and networking. Our co-workers are invited to engage in HPGM board service training workshops, attend professional development events, and engage with this organization’s membership.
• Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and LGBT-allied businesses, corporation and professionals throughout the State of Wisconsin, with a view to building a strong pro-fairness business community.
• National Black MBA Association, Inc. The Milwaukee Chapter of this organization works to create educational, career and entrepreneur opportunities to help build intellectual and economic wealth for its members.

Corporate Donations
Our corporate donations program gives approximately $1M every year to various local nonprofits, schools, and universities. Here are some of the organizations we supported financially in 2020:

• The United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County changes lives and improves communities by mobilizing people and resources to drive strategic impact in health, education, and financial stability. Current focus is COVID-19 relief and ending family homelessness.
• The Boys and Girls Club is the largest youth serving organization in Southeastern Wisconsin, serving more than 4,000 youth daily with after school care and programming in the areas of arts, academics, sports & recreation, health & wellness, and character & leadership.
• Acts Housing makes it possible for families with barriers (credit, financial, savings, language, etc.) to become homeowners.
• National Association of Real Estate Brokers Lift Mortgage Program Initiative is aimed at creating awareness among Black renters of the pathways to homeownership.
• Goodwill’s Boys and Men of Color pilot initiative aims to support unemployed or underemployed young men of color in Milwaukee.
•  UPAF (United Performing Arts Foundation) is an umbrella organization that raises funds to support 15 of southeastern Wisconsin’s most prominent performing arts groups. In addition to corporate donations, our co-workers support UPAF through an annual fundraising drive.
• MBA Open Doors Foundation helps vulnerable families with critically ill or injured children meet their mortgage and rental obligations so that parents and guardians can focus on the health of their child rather than on a home in jeopardy
• Broadscope Disability Services serves people with a broad scope of disabilities and their families by fostering inclusion and empowering freedom of choice.