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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.