Several Meemic employees spent hours one weekend to give the staff at Great Lakes Academy a makeover for their teachers’ lounge.

Agents like Dan Mace hit the road every May to visit schools and teachers and offer tokens of gratitude (and food) for Teacher Appreciation Week.

George the Guinea pig was one of our Meemic Class Pets of the Month. “The kids just adore him,” wrote science teacher Michelle O’Neall of CGMS Middle School.

Several Meemic employees spent hours one weekend to give the staff at Great Lakes Academy a makeover for their teachers’ lounge.

Agents like Dan Mace hit the road every May to visit schools and teachers and offer tokens of gratitude (and food) for Teacher Appreciation Week.

Meemic Agents have been setting up at several educator conferences. Kerri and Chip Williams were at the Michigan Music Conference.

Several Meemic employees and agents, along with some local teachers, presented a fun “Quarantine Talent Show” to keep up spirits.

Several Meemic employees and agents, along with some local teachers, presented a fun “Quarantine Talent Show” to keep up spirits.

Several employees throughout Meemic joined in the National Wear Red Day campaign to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.

At Meemic’s annual Souper Bowl, we held a bake sale that raised more than $430 for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Meemic sponsored several Georgia teachers to attend training at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta. Together, they made up RCA co-founder Kim Bearden’s Georgia All-Star team of exceptional educators.

It was Ugly Sweater Day here at Meemic. We even had a contest, with the winner getting all the bragging rights.

Meemic employees donated food baskets filled with nonperishable food items, toys, gift certificates and all the trimmings to create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. The baskets went to 17 families from Walt Whitman Elementary in Pontiac, MI.

A little (OK, a lot) of rain couldn’t dampen our spirits, and several Meemic employees dressed up in their Halloween best. It helps that we’re inside, though.

All over the Meemic building, folks were in the spirit for #UnityDay2019. PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center (NBPC) promoted the day to “help create a world without bullying” by uniting for kindness, acceptance and inclusion. Meemic employees wore orange in honor of the day, brought in orange food and participated in a Unity Walk.

Several people from Meemic (employees and their families) participated in the Making Strides Oakland County Michigan walk for breast cancer awareness and research on Oct. 19. Team Meemic blew past its goal of $500 to raise $752 for the event. The event raised about $109,000 from 1,500 participants.

After last summer’s successful mural painting, Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency (OLHSA) asked us back to further brighten up the hallways for the kids who attend Head Start. And we were glad to do it.

At Meemic, we don’t support educators solely through The Meemic Foundation. We are happy to step in with other assistance when we can. After a recent upgrade, the Meemic IT department was able to donate five servers to Lakeview Public Schools to help them with their own upgrade and allow them to spend their money in other ways to help students.

We at Meemic are happy to offer our hearty congratulations to Cara Lougheed, Michigan's Teacher of the Year for 2019-20. Cara is an English and history teacher at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Community Schools, MI. Here she is with Meemic Foundation director Pam Harlin, current Michigan Teacher of the Year - MTOY Laura Chang and presenting Meemic agent Michele Beitelshees. You can find out a bit more about her at Meemic.com/MTOY.

It was mostly beautiful weather at Motor City Pride, and Meemic was, of course, proud to be there to help celebrate diversity and inclusion as one of the sponsors of the big event in downtown Detroit. Thanks to the Meemic employees and agents who helped out at the booth!

Hooper and the Meemic volunteers greet eighth-graders who got to attend. Meemic and The Meemic Foundation were proud to work with Defeat the Label to support #Stand4Change Day and the #Rally4Change at Avondale High School.

It looks like the Canada geese are on to us and now just want to chill out with the decoy dogs here at Meemic headquarters. They seem to be hanging out a lot more this year.

We started judging in The Meemic Foundation’s latest Meemic Masterpieces art contest. It was the first step in finding 50 winners among more than 2,500 applications. And it sure isn’t an easy process – so many talented students out there! Tough decisions had to be made.

Meemic and our friends at AAA pretty much took over Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, MI, for the 2019 Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser, which raised money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit. Meemic bowlers contributed more than $11,000 toward a total of more than $80,000 for BBBS’ mentorship programs. Way to go, teams!

You can bring your kids, you can bring your pets – why not bring your action figures? For many of us around the office, every day is Action Figure Work Day. Here are some of the figures hanging out at the office, just doing insurance stuff, including one especially impressive display. Let your geek flag fly! #AFWD2019

Meemic sends warm wishes as we celebrate Pat’s 30th anniversary with Meemic – and her retirement this month. Thirty years is a major milestone, and we’ll miss her.

Meemic held its traditional Souper Bowl chili / soup cook-off, which raised $640 to support this year’s school volunteer events. Congrats to the winning teams: People’s Choice – Information Systems, Best Presentation – Marketing / eCommerce, Healthiest – Customer Service / Direct Sales and Spiciest – Underwriting / Product / Actuarial / Finance. All awards were well deserved.

Compliments are free, yet priceless, gestures. A gray day can be turned into a positive one with a compliment. We set up a board for Copliment Day.

Around the holidays, Meemic employees donated piles of toys for The Bottomless Toy Chest, an organization that delivers gifts year-round to hospitalized pediatric cancer patients. We’re so glad we can bring some smiles to kids stuck in a rotten situation.

For Ugly Sweater Day, Meemic employees got to don their ugliest apparel, though most of the “ugly sweaters” were actually pretty cool.

Meemic employees donated 23 food baskets filled with nonperishable food items, toys, gift certificates and all the trimmings to create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. The baskets went to families from Walt Whitman Elementary in Pontiac, MI.

Meemic Insurance donated two salvaged vehicles to automotive repair programs at two Ann Arbor Public Schools. Representatives from the Gordon Group Agency in Ann Arbor were on hand as a Hyundai Elantra went to Pioneer High School, and a Dodge Charger went to Huron High School.

We hope everyone had a safe and fruitful (or candyful) night of trick-or-treating! The folks here at Meemic sure were ready. (Thanks to John Ploskonka Insurance Agency for the jack o' lantern photo.

Thirty-two people from Meemic (employees and their families) participated in the Making Strides of Oakland County walk for breast cancer awareness and research on Oct. 27. Team Meemic raised $548 on a chilly, rainy morning.

The “Big Game” came, and Meemic employees showed their team colors. Big-time local rivals Michigan Football and Michigan State Football got the bulk of the love, but there were some other colleges in there, too.

Meemic would like to offer a hearty congratulations to Heather Duenas, the winner of this year’s Meemic Insurance Company Scholarship for Teacher Education at Oakland University in Rochester, MI.

On Monday, May 14th, we invited our most loyal Meemic Members to celebrate them. These Members have been with Meemic for 60 or more uninterrupted years.

Several Meemic volunteers visited the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency, which hosts a Head Start program in Pontiac, MI, to paint three murals in the building and improve the landscaping outside.

Several Meemic Masterpieces winners and their families, plus other art aficionados, came to Meemic headquarters to view the 50 winners and enjoy some local entertainment at our gallery open house.

At Meemic, we know educators are superheroes. We got to prove it when we united The Educators, as team of super-powered school staff. Meet Mega Shift, Illumino, NeuroKnight, The Sanitizer and more at www.EducatorsUnite.org.

The Meemic Foundation partnered with Defeat the Label and the Avondale School District to host the Rally4Change, to empower students and families as they rallied in support of anti-bullying, and creating a culture of kindness and diversity in their schools and communities.

As with workplaces around the country, several Meemic employees brought their kids to the office for Take Your Kid to Work Day. There was also pizza, snacks and other activities. Here are a few of the rugrats.

Congratulations to the winners of Souper Bowl 2018 Chili Cook-Off. Seven teams competed in several categories to raise money for the Baldwin Center, a charity in Pontiac, MI, that provides 25 programs to the local community. Together, the teams raised $630.

A team from Meemic recently had the pleasure to help package soups for sale at Motown Soup in Utica, part of Trinity Lutheran Church. The charity sells a variety of soup mixes, baking mixes and more, and the proceeds help several local soup kitchens around Metro Detroit. Visit www.MotownSoup.com to order online or sign up to volunteer. You won’t be disappointed.

This year, Meemic partnered with local nonprofit Bottomless Toy Chest for our holiday fundraiser. Based in West Bloomfield, MI, Bottomless Toy Chest delivers gifts to pediatric cancer patients spending their holidays in the hospital. It was founded by Mickey Guisewite, whose son was diagnosed with leukemia.

Meemic would like to offer a hearty congratulations to Amber Miller, the winner of this year’s Meemic Insurance Company Scholarship for Teacher Education at Oakland University in Rochester, MI.

Sure, it’s all smiles in this photo, but the Dalmatians in two Meemic departments had to be wary of Cruella De Vil and her henchmen this Halloween. No coats for us!

Meemic has partnered with Avondale High School in Avondale School District, to form the Meemic-Avondale Insurance Institute. Students will get regular hands-on experience with members of the insurance industry. More than just job shadowing, the initiative offers opportunities like this one, where students visited a fire loss site.

Several people from Meemic (employees and their families) participated in the Making Strides Oakland County Michigan walk for breast cancer awareness and research on Oct. 7. Team Meemic raised $500 toward more than $50,000 total for the event.

Avast, ye scurvy knaves! The staff at Meemic be ready to hunt for buried treasure on Talk Like a Pirate Day.

At this Meemic Foundation Workshop featuring Jerzy Drozd, teachers learned exercises they can use with their students to teach literacy fundamentals through creating comics in a wide variety of subjects, from English and social studies to music and world languages.

Four members of the Meemic Riders (Chris, Tammy, Holly and Lisa) took part (along with our friends at AAA, the ACG Riderz) in the fifth annual Ride 4 Recovery. The event celebrates recovery, supports the individuals and families suffering and recovering from addiction, and raises awareness of the behavioral health and substance use disorders that affect our communities.

Meemic had some special guests! Kids were our invited guests to help us learn about what animation styles are preferred at their age. (This one might not have been the most popular.) This will help Meemic with ideas we’re developing to support teachers in the classroom.

Forty-eight bowlers, family members and friends converged on Classic Lanes in Rochester Hills, MI, to raise money for The Meemic Foundation’s Needy Schools Project to purchase supplies for a Michigan school in need. Thank you to all the participants and to Classic Lanes for hosting. A similar fundraiser was held in Illinois.

Congratulations to the new employees joining the Meemic Family!! We are excited to have them become part of our team. If you’re interested in joining Meemic, we’re hiring. Visit www.Meemic.com/Careers

Go, Team Oddballs! We went out to support our amazing coworkers at the Auburn Hills Civic Center. Thanks for the great game, everyone!

It was a Christmas trifecta on Ugly Sweater Day: tree, presents and elf!

Our agents often like to drop in at schools with donuts or cakes or other care packages, but Teacher Appreciation Week really gets them wearing out their shoe leather. For example, the Williams Insurance Agency in Monroe, MI, created care packages filled with lots of goodies.

Meemic volunteers were on hand as dozens of students, mostly from junior high and high school, learned about various careers at Utica Community Schools’ annual Career Expo. The volunteers discussed the diversity of careers available in the insurance industry, including agent, human resources, claims, software development, marketing, customer service, project management and more. Meemic employees visit several career fairs throughout the year.

Marketing and social media intern Alex shares his experience at www.Meemic.com/Blog.

Whatever you want to call it (Bring Your Child to Work Day, Take Your Kid to Work Day), the halls at Meemic were full of bright young faces learning about everything their parents do, from customer service to claims to sales to maintaining our website. They took some time out as a group to write thank you notes to teachers and play games.

Whether you work at a school or know somebody who does, you probably know a teacher, principal, custodian, cafeteria worker or beyond who deserves a big thank you. We’ve got just the thing: a Leaves of Love certificate. Visit www.Meemic.com/LeavesOfLove, download the certificate, present it, snap a photo and post it to your favorite platform with the hashtag #LeavesOfLove.

Tracy Horodyski is the 10th Michigan Teacher of the Year that Meemic has been proud to sponsor.