Human Arc Community Service and Outreach

Since Human Arc's inception in 1984, community involvement and social responsibility are integral to our business success and fundamental to our thinking about our markets, our clients and the people they serve.

This commitment to the community is part of Human Arc's core values:
"We make a difference by loving and caring for people and communities." 

Since 1997, Human Arc associates have contributed 4,500 paid work hours to community organizations, in addition to many hours of their own time.

Additionally, as one of its five major strategic goals, Human Arc works hard to be "admired in the marketplace for our social responsibility."

For its leadership in community involvement, Human Arc has been named the recipient of the prestigious Pillar Award for Community Service.

New! Community Outreach/Resource Center

Volunteer Match 

Click on this link to access community service organizations by entering your zip code and area of interest. Whether you are a patient, health plan member, Human Arc associate or a customer, this will help you access many types of assistance you need as well as information on opportunities for volunteering and community involvement.

Human Arc's Community Vision

At Human Arc, We...
...nurture in all associates the value of making a difference, illuminate the spirit of community throughout the organization, and have fun while doing it.

...commit to making community involvement a visible part of daily life from which associates can learn and find motivation and inspiration in the actions of fellow associates.

...offer the opportunity to develop as individuals and associates through involvement in the community.

...encourage opportunities for associates to join together and collectively achieve a positive impact on the community and the populations served through our business.

...recognize and respect associates' unique skills, talents, and passions by promoting and supporting individual contributions to the community, both volunteer and financial.

Human Arc is an organization in which every associate can say, “I truly make a difference. I work at Human Arc.”

Human Arc Cleveland School Backpack Drive a Roaring Success!

August 31, 2009:  Conceived, organized and managed by Human Arc Marketing’s own Alicia Burton, the Human Arc School Backpack Drive aimed in the summer of 2007 to provide school-age children living in Cleveland area Salvation Army shelters a fully packed book bag when they return to school that August – September (tragically, well over 1,000 children in greater Cleveland return to school each year with no supplies whatsoever… not even a pencil).

Originally hoping to gather 100 book bags from Human Arc associates and friends of Alicia’s Progeny5129 community ministry, her outreach, as of mid-August of 2009 (the third year she has spearheaded this initiative), has resulted in the collection and distribution of well over 1,000 fully-packed book bags, complete with notebooks, paper, tissues, report folders, pencil boxes, scissors, glue, etc. 

Equally impressive, at least 80 Human Arc associates (25% of our company’s Cleveland employees!) have contributed filled book bags or money.  In fact, 50 associates have contributed multiple bags.  Even businesses with which Human Arc deals have become involved; of special note, HKM Direct Market Communications (Cleveland, OH) contributed funding to this year’s drive for over fifty book bags for disadvantaged elementary school kids in our area.

“I just want to thank all the wonderful, generous people who participated in this drive over the last three years,” said Alicia just after the close of the successful third year of the project.  “It shows the tremendous compassion and caring that we can have as individuals and as a group.  This means each of us is making a very real and positive difference in lives of disadvantaged children in our city.”  She added, “Special thanks go to Heather Bowers and Jeff Markle, both of whom have helped make the drive a great success, and we owe a big ‘thank-you’ as well to HKM Direct Market Communications for its generosity and participation.”

Congratulations to Alicia and all the rest of the kind people who have helped make this difference!