RoleCall Gives Back 2023: 6 Organizations We’re Proud to Support

Giving back to our communities is a key part of the company culture at RoleCall. To model and facilitate this work, we set aside a portion of our profits each year to be donated to organizations of full-time employees’ choosing. Our team grew this year, which means we get to support more worthy nonprofits across the country!

Thank you to everyone who worked with us and helped us grow in 2023. Here are the worthy causes your partnership helped support:

Winona Dimeo-Ediger - Co-Founder 

I am thrilled to be able to support Daybreak Arts, a Nashville nonprofit that helps people experiencing homelessness access art supplies, studio space, and resources for creative expression. I am a firm believer that artistic expression is a powerful tool for healing and that an inclusive arts community is the bedrock of a healthy city. The growing wealth inequality in Nashville is a major problem facing our city, and our homelessness crisis has been worsening for the past few years. This fantastic organization ensures that art supplies remain accessible to all Nashvillians — especially our neighbors who are dealing with dire financial situations and the stress of housing insecurity. If you're inspired by Daybreak's mission, I encourage you to support them with a donation or shop their online gallery! 

Brittney Stepanek - VP, Marketing

I’ve learned more than ever - in life, it takes a community. 

In August 2022, my husband was diagnosed with glioblastoma, or grade four brain cancer. Soon after this discovery, I KNOW JACK gifted us a backpack full of helpful items, each with a purpose, with little and big things that all made a difference in our most trying time. I KNOW JACK's mission is to: “raise funds to support cancer patients and their families [because they] understand that cancer affects the entire family, and that it takes a community to beat cancer.”

Jack too was diagnosed with brain cancer, but at the age of 5 years old. His journey is inspiring to many, including us. Jack's family appreciated the impact from the community, and created this foundation to pay it forward as well as continue to build a sense of community for others fighting through their own cancer journey. This year, I’d like to donate to I KNOW JACK and support their community development efforts helping families battling and beating cancer.

Community building and development is essential to me, our RoleCall core values, and to any city or state. Community gave us quality of life, support during our most difficult time, comfort, hope and love. Even after my husband passed away seven months ago, I've learned that community doesn't go away, but community continues to show up. We wouldn’t be where we are today without community. RoleCall's contribution this year hopefully enables stronger community building and development for cancer patients and their families in need, as well as beating cancer as a community. 

Tim Carty - Co-Founder

My non-profit will be Ronald McDonald House of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois. They provide comfort, care, and kindness to families when they must travel for needed medical care for their child. This year, donating to the RMHC is especially important to me. Close friends of mine recently lost a child to a lifelong illness after making countless trips for care in Iowa City. The Ronald McDonald house was there for them in dark moments, and this year's donation is in memory of Cade McGovern. 

Kate Wilson - VP, Client Success

I'm choosing Community Change Action. Building community and breaking through systemic barriers is something I am so passionate about and work on personally, everyday. CCA actively works so everyone has the freedom to thrive, with a basic level of income, access to quality child care, universal healthcare, and a place to call home — no exceptions. 

Through a combination of community organizing, big ideas, and public policy, Community Change Action is behind some of the most inclusive anti-poverty victories. They are working towards transformational change that moves our country towards the direction of justice, equity, and an inclusive democracy and economy for everyone. For me, it doesn't get any simpler than that. 

Alyssa Lakoduk - VP, Strategy 

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley is an organization I have been supporting for many years. I currently serve on the Sweet Heart Ball committee, which plans their annual fundraising gala. As a parent, I am thankful to have a healthy child and to live in the same community as an incredible hospital. I can't imagine the challenge being far from home while my child was receiving medical care would bring. This is why I support RMHC, because every dollar goes towards keeping families close.

Emily Wenzel - VP, Operations

The nonprofit I will be supporting this year is Prism Health, a nonprofit clinic in the Belmont neighborhood of Portland that “offers a safe, affirming, and non-judgmental space where all members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community can obtain the compassionate and culturally effective health care they need and deserve.” I have personally experienced the positive and inclusive environment at Prism, and trans healthcare in particular is an issue near and dear to my heart. Access to medical and behavioral health care is critical for everyone, and access to affirming care is especially vital for sexual and gender minorities and those of intersecting identities. As a relatively new resident of the state with the highest per capita population of LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals (and someone who moved here because of that), I am proud to support this cause.