Blue Crew Volunteer Leaders: Tajuana Brooks-Lane

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Tajuana Brooks-Lane (right) with fellow Blue Crew volunteer Amanda Blumenthal. Have you ever thought about volunteering, but something — shyness, lack of time, not knowing where to start — held you back? Read on for inspiration from Blue Crew Advisory Board member Tajuana Brooks-Lane, whose passion for volunteering will help you get in the game of giving back....
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Serving with Love at the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey

Koreana
As busy as you are, you’re probably not going to cook for 40 people when you get home tonight. But that’s what Koreana Iman-Sample, product manager for AmeriHealth New Jersey, does every month, after commuting an hour and 15 minutes from her office in Cranbury to her home in South Jersey. “It’s kind of hard to juggle between hectic work schedules and projects,” she tells us,...
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What Veterans Bring to the Workplace: IBX Associate Lena Anderson’s Story

Veteran's Day breakfast Nov 2016
Lena Anderson (3rd from right) is pictured with colleagues at an IBX Veterans Day event at Independence LIVE. If there’s one quote that captures my journey from military service to IBX, it’s this one, from Will Smith: “On the other side of your maximum fear, are all the best things in life.” In 2013,...
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Blue Crew Volunteer Leaders: Dannielle Frierson

Dannielle Frierson
Dannielle Frierson (2nd from right) is pictured with her IBX colleagues at the Alzheimer’s Walk. For Dannielle Frierson, a Blue Crew volunteer for more than 15 years, volunteering is all about the personal connection, “Life touches us in so many ways and gives us the opportunity to get involved and give to a cause that is close and personal.” For Dannielle,...
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Building Community Partnerships With Purpose

Partnerships With Purpose

Independence Blue Cross Convenes Partnerships with Purpose Conference

On November 1, Independence Blue Cross (Independence) convened a national conference, Partnerships with Purpose, aimed at exploring the power of collaboration to drive positive community impact. The conference brought together leaders from business, health care, nonprofit, education, and government to discuss opportunities for strong, more innovative partnerships that improve the health and well-being of our communities....
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Blue Crew Volunteer Leaders: Lorrie Reynolds

Lorrie Reynolds and her fellow Blue Crew volunteers helped cheer on participants along the course at the Youth Mentoring Partnership “Got Grit?” Color 5K Run.
Lorrie Reynolds and her fellow Blue Crew volunteers helped cheer on participants at the Youth Mentoring Partnership “Got Grit?” Color 5K Run.

How Giving Back is Good for Your Body and Soul

Lorrie Reynolds, Director, Wellness Client Accounts, Worksite Wellness Years on the Blue Crew Advisory Board: 3 Lorrie Reynolds has more than 20 years’ experience helping our customers empower their employees to live a healthier lifestyle....
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Rebuilding Together Philadelphia Honors the Blue Crew

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia Honors The Blue Crew
Jeanie Heffernan hard at work with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia Not everyone finds their happy place between pushing a pen and swinging a hammer, but Jeanie Heffernan has. For nearly 15 years, the Chief Human Resources Officer has been volunteering with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, which provides low-income or disabled homeowners with health-focused home improvements....
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How I’m Raising Readers, One Book at a Time, with Philadelphia Reads

Blue Crew volunteers are raising readers as tutors, mentors, and friends to first graders participating in the Philadelphia Reads Power Partners program.
Blue Crew volunteers are raising readers as tutors, mentors, and friends to first graders participating in the Philadelphia Reads Power Partners program. In first grade, I had a book buddy named Heather. I looked forward to seeing Heather every week when she came to Miss Keim’s classroom to read to me. I wanted to practice very hard at home so I could show her how much I’d learned....
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When Heart Disease Hits Home: Why the American Heart Walk Matters at IBX

: An interview with Tami Webb, the IBX employee whose winning design will appear on Team Independence’s Heart Walk t-shirts.
For this year’s Philadelphia Heart Walk, Team Independence will be wearing IBX associate Tami Webb’s t-shirt design (pictured here), designed in tribute to her mother’s memory. Let’s take a look at the numbers. In America, more than 600,000 people die of heart disease each year — that’s one in four deaths.1 Sadly,...
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Personal Reflections on Surviving and Thriving with Breast Cancer

Rev. Dr. Lorina Marshall-Blake from IBX encourages women to get their mammogram and shares her thoughts on surviving and thriving with breast cancer.
Lorina Marshall-Blake (center) celebrates the publication of The Pink Sister Chronicles, a collection of personal essays on surviving and thriving with breast cancer published by the Philadelphia nonprofit Traci’s BIO, co-founded by Traci Smith (left) and Phyllis Young (right). I’m not often at a loss for words, but one of the few times was on July 2,...
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