The mission of RSW/CARES is to provide our employees opportunities to give back and to unite as an organization through serving. Serving others helps remind us what is truly important in life and is also one of the best avenues to unify as a team.
Each year, RSW/CARES seeks to give back locally, nationally, & globally. Locally, we partner with our city to help keep our community clean. Nationally, we partner with our states Foodbank to fight hunger during the Thanksgiving holiday. And Globally, we partner with Soles4Souls to help fight poverty throughout the world.
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.
