MAXIMUS Local Initiatives

California Health Care Options

Our Rancho Cordova employees participated in the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services’ 16th Annual Holiday Food Drive, contributing a total of 7 barrels of food items, 2-1/2 barrels of clothing and $125 in cash donations for approximately 150 families in the greater Sacramento area.

California Healthy Families, AIM, & Diversion Programs

Folsom staff from our three projects came together to support the local Spirit of Children charity, which donated nearly $30,000 to the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Children’s Hospital. They also donated truckloads of school supplies, backpacks, and food to the Twin Lakes Food Bank. They also purchased a much needed ping-pong table for the EMQ FamiliesFirst Boys Home in Davis, CA and the office served as a collection point for the El Dorado Hills Toys for Tots program.

Our Atlanta office employees participated in the spring Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by building management and won an award for having the most participation.

Georgia Families

Our Georgia Families office recently held a team challenge to provide backpacks with school supplies to local children in need. These backpacks were distributed during one of our outreach community events and were received with much appreciation.

Georgia Child Care and Parent Services (GACAPS)

Each Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other occasion calling for a "pot-luck" meal, our GACAPS project office staff prepares extra food to feed over 30 of Atlanta’s homeless and needy residents, a project tradition for nine years. The project team also made voluntary donation to a local pet rescue shelter and to other humanitarian initiatives.

MASSHealth

Our MassHealth Customer Service leadership team in Boston held a "Valentine's Bake-off" contest and bake sale. Members from the management team contributed home-baked goods and project staff voted to award their favorites with "Best Appearance" and "Best Taste."  The proceeds were sent to Project HOPE for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

New York Medicaid CHOICE (NYMC)

The employees at our NYMC project office have created an employee-based MAXClub, which organizes charitable activities that benefit children and families in need. Through generous employee contributions, the team runs annual drives to collect clothing, food, and toys to support local communities. In addition, this local MAXClub has initiated an eco-friendly book exchange project among employees that promotes reading. Other efforts by our NYMC office include supporting local hospitals, HIV/AIDS organizations, and local organizations providing services to the families we serve.

NYMC team members have also been participating in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women in New York City since 2007, walking in honor of family, friends, and fellow co-workers who are breast cancer survivors.

South Carolina Health Connections Choices

Employees from our South Carolina Medicaid project spent their lunch time patching together quilts to donate to critically ill children at a local hospital.

Texas Enrollment Support Services

The MAXIMUS Activities Committees were formed by employees throughout our project offices in Texas to participate in numerous charitable activities and events. Our Texas employees possess an overwhelming interest in assisting their fellow Texans from all walks of life. They are involved in ongoing volunteer projects, community and charitable events, and disaster relief efforts.

Ongoing Volunteerism

• Mobile Loaves & Fishes. Once a month, an employee-organized group in Austin delivers food and other donated materials to low-income communities. Mobile Loaves & Fishes is a certified non-profit that strives to provide food, clothing and dignity to the homeless and working poor.
• Blood and Bone Marrow Drives. Our Athens, Austin, Midland and San Antonio offices participate in regular blood drives with regional blood centers. In particular, the Athens office works with the National Marrow Donor Program to encourage employees to join the national registry. In 2008, the Athens site donated 108 units of blood and received an honorable mention award from Carter Blood Care.

Community and Charitable Events

• Adopt a Family with the Christmas Guild. A unit from one of Austin’s call centers adopted a family for the holidays, providing gifts for a nine year-old girl and her single mother.
• Salvation Army. Outreach Counselors in Region 4/5N rang bells for Salvation Army donations.
• Shop with a Cop. The El Paso Outreach Team participated in a local event called "Shop with a Cop" to allow disadvantaged children to go on a shopping spree with local police officers.
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Several groups in Austin raised money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation by hosting bake sales, ice cream events, and selling jeans passes.
• Toys for Tots. Midland employees held a drive for the Salvation Army’s "Toys for Tots" program.
• Walk Texas. Austin employees participated in the Walk Texas 10-week challenge with the City of Austin. Teams tracked exercise activities lasting 10 minutes or longer and won bronze, silver, or gold medals from the city.
• West Texas Food Bank. The Midland team (MAXIMUS, Image API and TX HHSC staff) collected 3,000 food items that filled 50 boxes as part of a local food drive.

Disaster Relief Efforts

When Hurricanes Dolly and Ike hit the Texas coast in 2008, our Texas employees volunteered their time to come to the aid of their fellow citizens. Through an "all hands" effort, Call Center employees and management, joined by Quality Control, CHIP, TX Health and Human Services Commission, and the Special Escalation Unit Teams worked together to take applications for Texans in need.

Our Texas CHIP Operations processed more than 1,300 applications that helped families get insurance coverage. Eligibility Services Call Centers received a record number of calls from hurricane victims and over half of their Customer Care Representatives volunteered to work extra hours. Our San Antonio Operations staff expedited more than 5,000 Hurricane Food Stamp applications each day.

Employees in Texas helped in their communities through charities or neighborhood groups; several employees traveled to some of the worst hit areas to provide food and support to those hit hardest by this disaster. A Company-wide initiative allowed all employees to contribute donations toward hurricane relief efforts and MAXIMUS ultimately donated approximately $20,000 to the Capital Area Food Bank.