Charitable Giving Campaign

Founded in Germantown in 2014, Congressional Insurance Associates has been conducting its Charitable Giving Campaign since 2017. What began as a toy drive has transitioned and expanded into a full blown campaign with toys and monetary donations. Over the past decade, the agency’s policyholders, business partners, friends and family have helped contribute more than $130,000 and 2,000 toys to Children’s National.

The campaign now culminates each year with a community celebration, usually at Lone Oak Farm Brewing Co. in Olney.

“As time goes by, more of us have Children’s National experiences, either our own or perhaps indirectly through someone we know,” said Congressional Insurance Associates co-founders Michael Herson and Ian Higgins. “It brings further meaning to what we do as a community, and we look forward to our annual campaign each year, where we can come together as a community to help our local hospital and the families that are there.”

Children’s National is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals. Charitable contributions help support areas including patient care, research and assistance for families whose needs extend beyond what insurance covers.

For Congressional Insurance Associates, the campaign has grown from a local toy drive into an annual tradition bringing together the community it has served for more than a decade.