Assurant Health Rescues Academic Decathalon

Kudos to my former employer, Assurant Health.

Decathlon gets a donation
Assurant Health will give $150,000 annually for at least 3 years

The charitable arm of Assurant Health, a Milwaukee-based insurance company, announced Tuesday that it will donate $150,000 annually for at least three years to the Wisconsin Academic Decathlon, assuring the organization that runs the competition for high school students will continue to operate.

Academic Decathlon leaders had warned recently that the organization was in dire financial straits. They said Assurant's grant turned around the fortunes of the extracurricular activity in which teams try to outdo each other in demonstrating knowledge of such things as Renaissance music.

The company has been in Milwaukee for more than than a century. This is just the latest in a series of community investments Assurant has made, since it was first founded as Time Insurance Company back in 1892.

This good deed deserves an 'atta boy!'