Insight announcements Insight’s Noble Cause Helps Dreams Take Flight with $50,000 Make-A-Wish Donation
By Prashant Singh / 20 Dec 2024
As the year draws to a close, I am grateful for the chance to reflect on the crucial role that strong partnerships have played in propelling our business forward as we strive to be regarded as the leading Solutions Integrator. These collaborations enable us to harness the positive impacts of technology in work and daily life.
Some partnerships within our community take on even more personal meaning as we strive to transform and improve the livelihood of others.
This week, I saw how the generosity of our teammates and partners can make this happen.
Carisa Bianchi, Insight VP and global corporate controller as well as a Make-a-Wish Arizona board member, and I presented a check for $50,000 to Make-A-Wish Foundation. This donation helps grant life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, providing them with extra hope, strength, and joy during a time they need it the most. Our partnership with Make-A-Wish directly aligns with our commitment — embodied through our In it Together Gives Back program — of empowering the lives of children and their families through our deep technology resources.
Our longstanding partnership with Make-A-Wish happens through our annual Noble Cause campaign. This year, we donated $250,000 to three organizations — also including Ronald McDonald House Charities and Boys & Girls Club of America — that bring undeniable benefit to our communities. Now in its 14th year, Noble Cause has raised $2.5 million over the past decade for these causes.
“Make-A-Wish started here in Arizona, and we wouldn’t be ablet to do anything without the donations from our corporate partners and individuals, this is how we’re able to fund wishes,” said Fran Mallace, president and CEO, Make-A-Wish Arizona. “What's most important is what it means to our Wish Kids, their families and the community. Fourteen years is a long time for us to be partnering with Insight, and it gets better and better every year.”
When Wishes Grow Wings
During the Make-A-Wish visit Wednesday to our corporate headquarters in Chandler, I had the pleasure of meeting a Wish Kid named Abbie. Only 20 years old, she exudes inspiration, resilience, and selflessness well beyond her years. Born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect requiring lifelong medical care, Abbie has undergone multiple surgeries.
When she was just 12, Make-A-Wish granted her wish to visit Washington, D.C., a trip she initially thought she would miss due to one of her many operations. But good things come to great kids, and her wish came true. The experience was transformative, inspiring her to start three “Kids for Wish Kids” clubs and serve on the Youth Leadership Council for Make-A-Wish Arizona.
Now a sophomore at Arizona State University, Abbie continues to volunteer. She’s helped grant 17 wishes and is working on nine more, even as her own dreams have expanded in pursuit of becoming a mechanical engineer.
Seeing what Abbie has accomplished because of her own wish makes me extremely thankful for the generosity of our teammates and partners. We don’t know what wings our donations can bolster to help more dreams take flight for Wish Kids like Abbie. But with 600 wishes currently waiting to be granted by Make-A-Wish Arizona, ensuring those runways exist is the first step to realizing what’s possible.
Supporting Families and Empowering Youth
I encourage you to read more from my colleague Bob Kane about how our Noble Cause campaign also helped bring added warmth to Ronald McDonald House Charities homes across the United States, as Insight celebrated Thanksgiving by giving back. Plus, how we supported the continuing education of 12 students who are finalists for the 2024-2025 Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Youth of the Year.
As part of our $250,000 campaign this year, 37 of our trusted partners sponsored Noble Cause along with our teammates, who raised $8,000 from T-shirt sales. Their efforts also led to an additional donation by Insight of over $130,000 to United Way in 2024.
Read the 2024 Insight Corporate Citizenship Report at insight.com/CorporateCitizenship to learn more about how Insight’s values of hunger, heart and harmony drive what we do.
Prashant Singh
VP of Partner Alliances and Product Management
Prashant joined Insight as vice president of partner alliances and product management in April 2021. He leads strategy, business development and product management for Insight’s partners to drive profitable growth.
