Interstates Foundation
Serving Communities. Inspiring Employees.
What is the Interstates Foundation?
The Interstates Foundation is aligned with our Interstates Core helping to enhance company culture by creating opportunities for team members to serve their communities. Our goal is to positively impact our communities while inspiring the Interstates Family to serve. We do this by:
Creating opportunities for team members to connect with each other.
Encouraging a servant leadership mindset.
Supporting organizations financially.
Investing our unique skills and talents in training and growth opportunities for others.
How We Serve
The Interstates Foundation supports programs and organizations that involve Interstates team members, aligns with the Interstates Core, and promotes the development of people and leadership. Learn more about a few of the initiatives that the Interstates Foundation drives.
EIL for Non-Profits
Excellence in Leadership (EIL) for Non-Profits is a leadership program for non-profit leaders to develop their leadership skills. In a small group setting, we share leadership strategies, tools, and resources ultimately to serve their teams and organizations better. EIL is an intensive, core piece of our leadership training at Interstates. We encourage our leaders to go through this multi-session training and have graduated 29 classes since 2003.
Engage
Engage is a service project program through the Interstates Foundation. Our contribution as people and as a company to the world around us is not only measured by checking tasks off a list. It's the value we provide to our clients, our families, our work family, and our community that truly makes a difference.
Through Engage, we want to provide a value to our communities that they're not getting elsewhere. We have a family of 1100+ people that are uniquely gifted to serve. By serving our communities, we're also engaging our team members to live out our values and create connections among each other.
Scholarships
Internal - The Interstates Foundation Board provides scholarships to the children of Interstates team members. Applicants will have the opportunity to be selected for one of the $1,000 scholarships to pay for qualified tuition and related expenses such as fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for courses.
External - We also provide scholarships to students pursuing a degree in one of the fields that contribute to the work Interstates does. Through our relationships with partnering schools, the Foundation is able to support students who are passionate about the work we do.
The purpose of these scholarships is to financially support those who show potential for academic success and embody the core values of Interstates and the Interstates Foundation.
Partnering Schools
Iowa Central Community College - Fort Dodge, IA | Missouri State University - Springfield, MO | North Dakota State University - Fargo, ND | Pittsburg State University - Pittsburg, KS | South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Foundation - Rapid City, SD | South Dakota State University Scholarship Fund - Brookings, SD | Southeast Technical College - Sioux Falls, SD | State College - Linn, MO | University Of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH | University of Minnesota - Mankato, MN | University of Nebraska - Kearney, NE
My experience with EIL was positive. There were a lot of concepts that I learned about as a brand-new concept; also, a lot of things that I maybe have heard before, but I was able to think about how I could apply them day-to-day. It was also just positive to connect with the other non-profit organizations.
