Holmes Murphy employees reveal a Wheel of Fortune-inspired board that says Let's Raise A Fortune in honor of United Way Week
Corporate Culture

Game On And Give Back: Celebrating United Way Week

Holmes Murphy’s United Way Week was a celebration of generosity, teamwork, and community impact. With record-breaking donations and positive employee participation, we’re proud to live out our purpose: caring for unique potential.
Susan Hatten
Susan Hatten
Chief Marketing Officer

“Caring for your unique potential is our soul purpose.” These words make up our Holmes Murphy purpose statement. Not only are they painted beautifully on our office walls—they are also woven into the fabric of our Holmes Murphy culture and how we care for our team members, clients, and communities.

We recently saw a true illustration of these words as we celebrated one of the most exciting weeks at Holmes Murphy: our United Way campaign week. Each year, our campaign planning committee makes it a point to outdo the previous year’s theme, activities, and results, and this year’s theme—Game On: United We Win—did just that!

Uplifting United Way

Our Holmes Murphy team continues to rise to the occasion, and I’m proud to share a few metrics that highlight how we came together to take our United Way Week campaign to the next level.

Breaking Records

For the third year in a row, we set an all-time donation record with more than $754,000 donated companywide. This marks a 9% increase over last year and a 55% increase since 2022.

Maximizing Matches

Holmes Murphy continues to see increases in employee match requests, helping us maximize our impact. This year, matching dollars increased by 12%, resulting in an additional $97,000 for our communities.

Positive Participation

United Way Week participation goes beyond giving with employees volunteering throughout the week and supporting their teams during fun competitions. Even so, a majority of our employees choose to donate—in fact, our Bigfork office had 100% participation, followed by Cedar Rapids with 96% and Sioux Falls with 93%. Wow!

Caring For What Matters Most

Beyond our United Way campaign week, we were truly honored to be recognized with the annual Spirit of Central Iowa Award by United Way of Central Iowa earlier this year. This award is reserved for employers who have demonstrated dedication to improving the lives of others through giving, advocating, and volunteering. We could not be prouder of our employees for making this possible!

In addition to supporting our communities through United Way, our Holmes Murphy Foundation awarded more than $135,000 to 25 local nonprofits across our geographies through our Community Footprints program earlier this summer. This program is truly unique to Holmes Murphy, as we empower our employees to have a voice in where our Foundation dollars are deployed.

To see our team members convene to share their time, talent, and treasure with the goal of uplifting our communities is to see who we truly are at Holmes Murphy. When we unite, we can support and celebrate the communities where we live, work, and play. Because at the heart of everything we do is our soul purpose: caring for unique potential.

If you’re looking for a place to build a meaningful career with colleagues who care, take a look at our current job openings and reach out to learn more about why we love what we do and who we do it with.

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