It was Ugly Sweater Day here at Meemic. We even had a contest, with the winner getting all the bragging rights.

Meemic employees donated food baskets filled with nonperishable food items, toys, gift certificates and all the trimmings to create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner. The baskets went to 17 families from Walt Whitman Elementary in Pontiac, MI.

A little (OK, a lot) of rain couldn’t dampen our spirits, and several Meemic employees dressed up in their Halloween best. It helps that we’re inside, though.

All over the Meemic building, folks were in the spirit for #UnityDay2019. PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center (NBPC) promoted the day to “help create a world without bullying” by uniting for kindness, acceptance and inclusion. Meemic employees wore orange in honor of the day, brought in orange food and participated in a Unity Walk.

Several people from Meemic (employees and their families) participated in the Making Strides Oakland County Michigan walk for breast cancer awareness and research on Oct. 19. Team Meemic blew past its goal of $500 to raise $752 for the event. The event raised about $109,000 from 1,500 participants.

After last summer’s successful mural painting, Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency (OLHSA) asked us back to further brighten up the hallways for the kids who attend Head Start. And we were glad to do it.

At Meemic, we don’t support educators solely through The Meemic Foundation. We are happy to step in with other assistance when we can. After a recent upgrade, the Meemic IT department was able to donate five servers to Lakeview Public Schools to help them with their own upgrade and allow them to spend their money in other ways to help students.

We at Meemic are happy to offer our hearty congratulations to Cara Lougheed, Michigan's Teacher of the Year for 2019-20. Cara is an English and history teacher at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Community Schools, MI. Here she is with Meemic Foundation director Pam Harlin, current Michigan Teacher of the Year - MTOY Laura Chang and presenting Meemic agent Michele Beitelshees. You can find out a bit more about her at Meemic.com/MTOY.

It was mostly beautiful weather at Motor City Pride, and Meemic was, of course, proud to be there to help celebrate diversity and inclusion as one of the sponsors of the big event in downtown Detroit. Thanks to the Meemic employees and agents who helped out at the booth!

Hooper and the Meemic volunteers greet eighth-graders who got to attend. Meemic and The Meemic Foundation were proud to work with Defeat the Label to support #Stand4Change Day and the #Rally4Change at Avondale High School.

It looks like the Canada geese are on to us and now just want to chill out with the decoy dogs here at Meemic headquarters. They seem to be hanging out a lot more this year.

We started judging in The Meemic Foundation’s latest Meemic Masterpieces art contest. It was the first step in finding 50 winners among more than 2,500 applications. And it sure isn’t an easy process – so many talented students out there! Tough decisions had to be made.