Funds in Health

Pedal the Cause for cancer research. 100% of every dollar raised supports innovative cancer research at Siteman Cancer Center and Siteman Kids at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Event Weekend: Saturday, September 23rd, and Sunday, September 24th riders will bike on 8 course options (6 road and 2 gravel), a signature Spin Zone, an Inspired virtual participation option and a Kids Challenge. You can ride anywhere from 11 miles to 100 miles! Employees who wish to ride/participate in the event should register directly on PTC website. Registration fees: $150 after, $50 for Inspired, and $50 for Kids Challenge. I have designed a custom jersey for Team Rabobank to wear during the event. They are in production and will be available to purchase prior to the event. Every rider has a fundraising goal as well. Hopefully, if you are not riding you can donate to your favorite coworker who is riding, and help them meet their goals. When donating in Bright Funds, you can select the box to add a note. In this box, you can add the participant's name. (ie: Donation for Joe Merlone on Team Rabobank). Timing is everything. Bright Funds disburses donations in the middle of the following month. So, for our riders to benefit from Bright Funds donations, they need to be submitted by the end of August. PTC just announced a Build Your Team Challenge: Every rider we register from 8/14-8/31 will earn our team a $50 donation!. If we register Five teammates, we get a $250 additional Team Bonus! Bonus on Bonus: register at least one team member and we are in a drawing for: Reserved VIP lounge for our team at the Taste the Cause dining event, or $150 credit to the PTC merch shop, or 2 tickets to Taste the Cause.

Join us to help this local chapter of Ronald McDonald House as it has positively impacted a colleague of ours!

Let's find cure for Schizophrenia! In March 2022, I lost my younger son to Schizophrenia. Although technically he died by suicide, in my mind he was killed by that evil disease. This wicked disease practically makes affected individual ‘Differently Disabled’. We simply cannot fathom what they are going through. I believe it is incumbent upon us to defeat this monster. Schizophrenia International Research Society is an approved non-profit for donation matching for Rabobank employees for up to $500 per employee per calendar year. Please check and share this link for fundraiser page created by my elder son. Note that donations made to SIRS from this page are not eligible for match by Rabobank. https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-legacy-of-savit-joshi Thank you!

The Challenge You may have seen in May when RAF Financial Analysts Roland Camacho and Dylan Johnston out of the Edmond, Oklahoma office led a virtual helping hands event for the West Territory. Well, they’re doing it again and challenging all of North America to join in on the challenge. We will be walking the week of September 14th and your daily steps Monday through Friday that week will count towards an individual and team competition. The Goals We want to feel connected while we are still apart, we want to raise money for a good cause and we are encouraging everyone to stay active. The Charity We will be raising money for Feeding America and the American Red Cross, in light of all the recent natural disasters. If you are joining the challenge from outside of U.S., and would like to add additional charities to support North America, please let us know. Our recommendation is that each person donates a penny per step on their daily average – that means that if you walk the recommended 10,000 steps daily, we’d ask you donate $100 to the fund with a maximum recommendation of $100, so don’t worry if you blow past 10,000 steps. Also, if you’d like to join the step challenge but aren’t ready to donate, that is fine as well. Tracking Progress There are many ways to track your daily steps via the Health app on your Smartphone, Smartwatch or download the StepUp Pedometer from your app store. In order to track your steps for the challenge, we ask that you can email or text your daily steps to Carollann Romo. (Carollann.romo@raboag.com, 661-904-7558) We will have updates for the team challenges throughout the week. Currently the teams are broke out to Wholesale, DLL, Pacific Territory RAF/RDS, West Territory RAF/RDS, East Territory RAF/RDS, Central Territory RAF/RDS, Vendor Finance and RDS. You can choose your team or let us know if we missed a group. As you’re walking, please take a picture too and we’ll use them to put together a recap video. The Competition Each of the top three individuals with the most steps will receive $100 in their Bright Funds account to donate to a charity of their choice, this is thanks to the Health and Wellness Committee. We will also be tracking the team winners. There are two team winners, one will be based on the total number of steps and another will be on the average steps per person.

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