Our leadership team believes that every business and person has a responsibility to help build a better community. At KJWW, we are committed to the communities in which we operate. The firm and our employees provide much needed financial support through donations and sponsorships targeted to a variety of organizations and events that improve quality of life. We have a Community Involvement committee in each office that determines the organizations and events local to their area to support. It’s our way of giving back.

KJWW employees at various offices performed the following charitable activities in the past year:

• Contributed more than $32,000 to United Way.
• Donated more than 90 pints of blood to area blood centers.
• Raised more than $7,500 for the American Heart Association Heart Walk.
• Gave 90 items and $130 to the First Day Fund for school kids.
• Spent more than 500 volunteer hours designing, building and staffing a train display at a Christmas festival supporting the arts.
• Walked three miles as balloon handlers at a Thanksgiving parade to support the arts.
• Donated 3,600 pounds of canned goods and frozen turkeys and $1,200 to area food banks.
• Provided 40 underprivileged children with Christmas gifts.
• Raised $1,300 for victims of domestic violence, especially children.
• Sent a dozen volunteers to the clean-up day at a forest preserve.
• Spent 130 hrs mentoring high school students and making presentations about engineering and other technical careers.
• Contributed 150 hours of service to Habitat for Humanity.
• Created a high school scholarship fund for students majoring in engineering, architecture or construction.
• Supported the United Way bowl-a-thon.
• Raised more than $200 for cancer research via a run/walk event.
• Took part in a fundraising bike-ride to support an area community center.
• Sent care packages to troops in Iraq.
• Provided judges at Math Counts and High School Invention contests.
• Served as volunteer bell ringers for the Salvation Army.
• Collected baseball gloves for needy children to support a youth activity program.
• Volunteered as a "Business Buddy" to a local daycare for disadvantage youth; supporting special projects, funds, and monthly reading sessions to children.
• Donated $1,000 to local museum, ballet, opera and symphony groups.
• Donated $76,000 to community and educational programs, hospital special events and auxiliaries.
• Raised money for other charitable events, including:
  • Alzheimer’s Association
  • American Breast Cancer Society
  • American Lung Association
  • American Red Cross
  • Bettendorf Public Library
  • Beyond Design Tour
  • Big Brothers / Big Sisters
  • Boys and Girls Club
  • Catholic Diocese of Peoria
  • Homeless Veterans
  • Junior Achievement
  • St. Pius Habitat House
  • Wounded Warrior Project