Aflac, the largest provider of supplemental insurance continually works to bring attention to gaps in American Healthcare and how to protect your family thorough can its CareGrant Initiative, which awards applicants $5,000 to help with medical bills health insurance may not cover.

Over the last few years, we’ve been hard at work demonstrating Aflac’s commitment by addressing the critical issue of medical debt, and we took it a step further to once again showcase Aflac’s culture of caring to the world beyond Aflac’s walls.

It started when we announced Aflac’s CareGrants Initiative, its intent to give away $1 million to families, individuals and organizations throughout 2022, shining a light on the urgent issue of medical debt.

In 2023, we elevated the program and included a park bench at key locations across America along with donations to community health organizations with similar goals.

The CareGrants program has two components:

Individual CareGrants are awarded to help families and individuals focus on their physical recovery instead of financial stressors.

Community CareGrants are delivered to organizations that improve the medical outcomes for individuals in their local areas, prioritizing regions identified as high-need by the Aflac Care Index.

Why a Park Bench?

The Aflac Park Bench is a physical manifestation of the commitments Aflac makes to educate, support and advocate to help close the gap; the organization installs Park Benches in highly exposed communities where it awards CareGrants to organizations that are working to close the health and wealth gap.

Texas Southern Heritage Donation 2022

Thus far, this is the largest gift under Aflac's $1 million CareGrant program, which started in 2021 and aims to help individuals and communities currently suffering from or highly exposed to medical debt.

Previously, the program limited grants to $100,000, Virgil Miller, incoming president of Aflac.

Aflac Pledges $1 Million to Morehouse School of Medicine

Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental insurance and products in the U.S., has pledged $1 million to Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). The funding will support the institution's research and education programs related to the ongoing opioid crisis in rural America.

Aflac will provide Morehouse School of Medicine with five annual installments of $200,000, which began in 2020.

The majority of Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine's more than 1,400 alumni serve communities located in rural areas and inner cities, locally, nationally and internationally.