Meals on Wheels, Indianapolis

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Regions Bank

When you spend your days making 15-million-dollar decisions, sometimes those daily judgment calls as a Meals on Wheels volunteer mean the most.

From the top of the chain on down, Regions Bank employees understand the value of volunteering. You can feel it in the air at their corporate offices that juxtapose the newfangled with the traditional -- a polo-shirt attitude among the carved mahogany and burnished hardware.

Cyndi Freeman, Regional Commercial Real Estate VP who’s been the volunteer coordinator at Regions for six years, said, “It’s pretty clear when you walk in the door -- this is a very philanthropic organization.”

The bank’s Regional Credit Director and Executive VP, David Owen, seconds that: “Our community focus at Regions Bank empowers our associates to give back to causes that mean something to them. We encourage volunteering as part of our workday.”

Owen, who began delivering meals a decade ago while he worked at another bank, also serves as MOW’s President. He said that as a busy professional, he appreciates the opportunity to do something with a personal touch that is an extension of what he does on a daily basis with bank customers. “I get more out of it than I give,” said Owen. “Meals on Wheels is an organization where I can make a difference every day.”

A $1 billion bank in the local community, Regions has more than 300 associates at 28 branches in the greater Indianapolis area. Eighteen employees, most of whom have been delivering since 2000, form a core group that takes a route every Friday out of Wishard Hospital.

Maggie Miller, Commercial Real Estate Servicing Specialist who spends her day funding loans and keeping project dollars flowing in the community, recalled the heartbreaking case of delivering to a paraplegic who would drag himself along the floor and open his front door by pulling it with a rope.

Freeman added, “Delivering Meals on Wheels is my perspective check. You think you’re having a bad day, or you don’t have time to do this. But the minute you get out there and meet these people who need you so much you realize, your stressors are nothing compared to theirs.”

Meals on Wheels is grateful for the enduring
support of these Regions Bank volunteers:

For further details, please contact us at 317.633.6325, or by e-mail at info@mealsonwheelsindy.org.

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