RSW/Cares: 2025

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

It was our 10th anniversary of volunteering at Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank, and as always, we were grateful for the opportunity to serve..

Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community.

To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.

Thanks to the team at Freestore Foodbank, a worthy cause and one we’ve been proud to be a part of.

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

La Soupe

A huge thank you from RSW/US to everyone at La Soupe, Inc., an amazing nonprofit organization here in Cincinnati.

This was a new serving opportunity for us, and it was our privilege to have a group of our Cincy employees volunteer there in November.

La Soupe bridges the gap between food waste and food insecurity.

Last year, they rescued 1.3 million pounds of surplus food and turned it into 1.2 million ready-to-eat meals.

They’ve diverted over 8 million pounds of food from landfills and shared 6.8 million nourishing servings with families in need through hundreds of community partners.

They’re doing amazing work, and if you’re in the Cincy/Northern KY area, they welcome volunteers.

You can sign up to volunteer and to donate on their site: https://www.lasoupe.org/

We’ll be back!

City Gospel Mission

Our team was happy to return to the City Gospel Mission where we prepared and served up lunch for this worthy organization.

Founded in 1924 by James N. Gamble of Procter & Gamble, City Gospel Mission empowers hurting and homeless men and women and at-risk youth to break the cycle of poverty and despair by providing relationship-focused programs and services pertaining to: food and shelter, addiction recovery, jobs, and youth development.

City Gospel Mission annually serves 6,800 adults and 3,500 youth with the help of 2,500 volunteers. City Gospel Mission annually provides 109,000 meals and 42,000 nights of shelter among its many services.

To learn more, visit citygospelmission.org

City Gospel Mission 2025

RSW/Cares: 2024

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

It was great to be back in 2024, and this was definitely the coldest and snowiest yet! But as always, a great day.

We first started volunteering for downtown Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank in 2015, and it continues to be important to us.

Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.

Great to be a part of it again.

Matthew 25: Ministries

This was our first time volunteering for Mathew 25: Ministries and it was a great experience.

Matthew 25: Ministries is an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization helping the poorest of the poor and disaster victims locally, regionally, nationally and internationally regardless of race, creed or political persuasion.

By rescuing and reusing products from major corporations and manufacturers, Matthew 25: Ministries provides basic necessities, nutritional supplements, educational materials, micro-enterprise supplies and disaster relief across the US and worldwide.

Thanks so much to everyone at Matthew 25 for having us and letting us help in your mission.

City Gospel Mission

We were excited to come back to the City Gospel Mission in 2024.

Founded in 1924 by James N. Gamble of Procter & Gamble, City Gospel Mission empowers hurting and homeless men and women and at-risk youth to break the cycle of poverty and despair by providing relationship-focused programs and services pertaining to: food and shelter, addiction recovery, jobs, and youth development.

City Gospel Mission annually serves 6,800 adults and 3,500 youth with the help of 2,500 volunteers. City Gospel Mission annually provides 109,000 meals and 42,000 nights of shelter among its many services.

To learn more, visit citygospelmission.org

Eden Park/East Walnut Hills Community Cleanup

We may be biased, but we sure do love Cincinnati! It’s not only where our main hub is, but also where most of our team members call home – some their entire lives, others who have migrated here and fell in love with this city.

It’s important to us to keep this city looking beautiful for all to enjoy, so some of our team members got together to pick up trash and help clean up our neighborhood: Walnut Hills.

The most rewarding part was being greeted and thanked by many people in the area walking by.

Thank you to all the RSW team members for their help

RSW/Cares: 2023

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

It was great to be back in 2023, and this time we were very prepared for any weather. We first started volunteering for downtown Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank in 2015, and it continues to be important to us.

Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.

We’re becoming seasoned pros with the new outdoor pickup at Freestore. Great to be a part of it again.

Hoxworth Blood Drive

Since 2016 we’ve worked with Hoxworth to donate blood to help our community and our city.

In our current building on Alpine, it’s tough to get the blood mobile into the neighborhood, so this year, we went to an offsite mobile location.

Thanks Hoxworth!

Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati was founded in 1938 and serves 31 hospitals in 18 counties in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana. Annually, Hoxworth collects more than 90,000 units of blood from local donors to help save the lives of patients in area hospitals.

2023 Soles4Souls Drive

Another successful drive, we collected pairs of shoes!

Thanks to Soles4Souls for allowing us to be a part of such an awesome initiative another year!

And thanks to everyone who participated in the Soles4Souls Philanthropy opportunity this year.

Those who delivered or picked up boxes, came to the office and help count the shoes, out of towners who donated at a DSW or mailed them directly to S4S.

It truly takes a team to pull off this event.

Aubrey Rose Foundation Drive

2022 was our first time raising money for the Aubrey Rose Foundation and we were thrilled to meet our goal.

Their mission is to help families caring for children with life-threatening illnesses with our focus being on the family unit. We strive to lift families from life’s complexities during this difficult time by providing emotional and financial support.

The money we rasied went to two very special little boys: Grayson and Kyler.

Grayson was diagnosed Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and was born without an immune system. He has had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant but can take a long time for his immune system to build up again using the donor cells.

Kyler was injured by the DTAP vaccine as a baby and it destroyed his immune system and left him with multiple disabilities.

He is now three years old and cannot walk unassisted, can only eat purées that his parents have to feed him and can say 3 words but not consistently.

Thanks again to the Aubrey Rose Foundation for letting us partner with you for an important cause.

RSW/Cares: 2022

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

We first started volunteering for downtown Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank in 2015, and it continues to be important to us.

Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offer a pathway from crisis to stability.

Our annual Freestore Foodbank volunteer event looked a little different this year!

It sure was cold, but we had such an awesome time meeting new people, dancing to keep warm, and passing out Thanksgiving food items to those in our community.

Hoxworth Blood Drive

We first started working with Hoxworth in 2016, and in 2022 we continued donating blood to help our community and our city.

Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati was founded in 1938 and serves 31 hospitals in 18 counties in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana. Annually, Hoxworth collects more than 90,000 units of blood from local donors to help save the lives of patients in area hospitals.

2022 Soles4Souls Drive

2022 Soles4Souls drive was a success – we collected 1,302 pairs of shoes!

Thank you, as always, to our Cincinnati team for counting shoes, our Columbus team members Cher & Natalia for donating shoes to designated Soles4Souls drop off locations, all the local businesses for partnering with us in this drive, and of course Soles4Souls for allowing us to be a part of such an awesome initiative another year!

Homeless Intitative

2022 was our first ever RSW/Cares Homeless Initiative.

We packed 200 bags – half personal care and half food items.

We were so fortunate to have Local 12 WKRC capture the event and we’re famous! (Kind of)

Thank you to all who donated, contributed their time, and helped in any way to make this day possible.

Aubrey Rose Foundation Drive

2022 was our first time raising money for the Aubrey Rose Foundation and we were thrilled to meet our goal.

Their mission is to help families caring for children with life-threatening illnesses with our focus being on the family unit. We strive to lift families from life’s complexities during this difficult time by providing emotional and financial support.

The money we rasied went to two very special little boys: Grayson and Kyler.

Grayson was diagnosed Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and was born without an immune system. He has had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant but can take a long time for his immune system to build up again using the donor cells.

Kyler was injured by the DTAP vaccine as a baby and it destroyed his immune system and left him with multiple disabilities.

He is now three years old and cannot walk unassisted, can only eat purées that his parents have to feed him and can say 3 words but not consistently.

Thanks again to the Aubrey Rose Foundation for letting us partner with you for an important cause.

RSW/CARES IS THE PHILANTHROPIC ARM OF RSW/US

RSW/Cares: 2025

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

La Soupe

City Gospel Mission

RSW/Cares: 2024

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

Matthew 25: Ministries

City Gospel Mission

Eden Park/East Walnut Hills Community Cleanup

RSW/Cares: 2023

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

Hoxworth Blood Drive

2023 Soles4Souls Drive

Aubrey Rose Foundation Drive

RSW/Cares: 2022

Freestore Foodbank Volunteering

Hoxworth Blood Drive

2022 Soles4Souls Drive

Homeless Intitative

Aubrey Rose Foundation Drive

RSW/CARES IS THE PHILANTHROPIC ARM OF RSW/US

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