Symetra Employees Give Back in Bellevue

Symetra set out to make a big impact in communities across its office footprint earlier this month as the national provider of employee benefits, annuities and life insurance celebrated the power of volunteerism during its 11th annual Symetra Week of Service.

From June 10–14, nearly 600 employees from the company's Bellevue headquarters took a break from their workday to give back at 34 nonprofit organizations around the Puget Sound, including several Bellevue-based orgs.

Partnering with Together We Rise, Symetra employees assembled and delivered 30 children’s bicycles to OliveCrest. Volunteers at Bellevue LifeSpring packaged more than 900 break-time snack packs for at-risk students on summer break, while other assisted City of Bellevue park stewards with landscaping projects at the McTavish-Woodridge Open Space Trail and helped with garden space and trail maintenance at the Bellevue Botanical Garden. Symetra crews jumped in to give The Sophia Way’s emergency shelter a deep clean and also helped clean and organize Kindering’s storage room and gym.

Volunteers with a passion for yardwork tackled landscaping at Attain Housing’s and Seattle Humane’s Bellevue facilities, while those with organizational flair assisted the Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue with club maintenance and a year-end party for kids.

“We are proud to support our employees’ volunteer spirit during Symetra Week of Service and throughout the year,” said Symetra CEO Margaret Meister, who helped clear invasive plant species along the CKC Trail in Kirkland with her project team. “As individuals, our employees are empowered to give back to the causes and organizations that matter to them personally through hands-on service opportunities like this. Every year, we all look forward to this powerful expression of Symetra’s ‘Swift to Serve’ core value as we come together on behalf of our communities.”

Symetra Week of Service began in 2009 with 130 Bellevue employees volunteering at seven Puget Sound-area projects. For 2019's Week of Service, 800 Symetra employees volunteered at 73 projects across the country on behalf of 54 nonprofit organizations. Since the program's inception, Symetra employees have contributed more than 18,000 Week of Service hours.

To learn more about Symetra in the community, visit www.symetra.com/community.