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Brooke Kraft, vice president of talent management for Human Capital, and Lathan Ehlers, copywriter lead for Corporate Communications & Events, were fortunate enough to have child care set up by the time their daughter Viv, now 4 years old, was born.

VGM employee owners nominated charities to be featured during VGM's Journey, a guided tour of VGM Group's headquarters. We are excited to announce the four charities selected!

Irina Hageman, a program underwriter with VGM Insurance, wanders over to one of the other offices just a few steps from her desk. Looking down from the window, she sees her son Easton, who’s almost a year and half, playing out on the playground.

Since opening our own child care center in November of 2023, VGM Group has seen firsthand how access to quality, affordable child care and education Makes a Difference. VGM’s Q3 community giving aims to expand that opportunity to even more area families by focusing on child care and summer programming for children.

VGM Group Inc. is excited to announce that Dan Bunting has joined the team as a senior advisor. In this role, Bunting will help VGM continue to develop long-term strategies to help promote and support its customers and the HME industry as a whole.

Sometimes, all a kid needs is to be comforted by mom or dad. It can make all the difference. And one of the best things about VGM’s new on-site child care center is that you can be right there for your kids when they need you. That’s been a major benefit to Tyler Mahncke, president of U.S. Rehab, who has two kids in VGM’s child care center.

For VGM Community Giving’s Q2 donation efforts, they focused on schools and organizations that help promote education and literacy to local children. Donations for Q2 totaled $15,500. Learn more about the three organizations and schools.

Nick Dideriksen, director of business technology for Forbin’s managed IT services, and his wife Briley know a thing or two about child care in the Cedar Valley. The two have three kids: daughters Quinn, who turns 8 in July, and Lennon, who turned 6 in April, and son Brooks, who turned 3 in May.