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With holiday season underway and community organizations across the globe extending helping hands to those in need, we’re excited to highlight a new community impact partner of ours.

This fall, we joined forces with iHeartMedia, the nation’s leading audio media company, to support Team Rubicon. Team Rubicon is one of the U.S.’s leading veteran-led humanitarian organizations that serves global communities before, during and after disasters and crises.

Together, LifeLock and iHeartMedia’s corporate social responsibility division, iHeartIMPACT, selected Team Rubicon as the recipient of both $50,000 in funding and a regional on-air awareness campaign to raise support for the organization’s ongoing disaster response efforts.

The funding from LifeLock and iHeartIMPACT is supporting Team Rubicon’s widespread response efforts, with Greyshirts (volunteers) conducting muck outs, chainsaw operations, flood mitigation work, debris removal, roof tarping and heavy equipment operations. In addition to the work done in support of city and county needs, Team Rubicon helped muck out more than 150 rooms at the Buncombe Community Christian Ministry’s Veterans Restoration Quarters, a converted motel providing housing for 250 vulnerable veterans in Asheville, North Carolina.

Thank you, Team Rubicon, for helping make the world a better, safer place. We are grateful to the Team Rubicon volunteers, veterans and communities that stepped up throughout the year, and especially this fall, to help communities rebuild.

Get to Know Team Rubicon - Serving Communities in Need, Wherever They Are

Team Rubicon is a U.S-based organization that has been helping communities respond and recover from disaster since 2010. They have been a particularly critical resource for communities across the Southeast this fall and winter as they continue in their recovery from Hurricanes Milton and Helene.

In 2024 alone, Team Rubicon positively impacted nearly three million individuals, joined together more than 180,000 volunteers and served more than 700 communities across the U.S. Efforts ranged from addressing flooding devastation to hurricane recovery, wildfire response and more.

As an example, just weeks after Hurricane Helene left a path of destruction from Florida through North Carolina, and Hurricane Milton retraumatized parts of Florida still attempting to recover from Hurricanes Ian and Idalia, Team Rubicon stood up disaster relief operations in five states across the Southeast. More than 300 Team Rubicon disaster relief volunteers served dozens of communities across the five states. This represents the most Forward Operating Bases the nonprofit has ever stood up in one geographical area at a time. Right now, they are working with communities in Southern Georgia and are making plans to go back into impacted communities across the Southeast in 2025.

These numerous operations are just the beginning of what Team Rubicon expects will be months of relief and recovery work in the American Southeast in response to 2024’s historic hurricanes.

“Hurricanes Helene and Milton brought unprecedented destruction to many communities across the southeast. Team Rubicon quickly responded within hours of the storms passing and has stayed committed for months after the disasters. These operations would not be possible without investment from our donors. Thank you to LifeLock for your generous support in fueling these missions and iHeartMedia for sharing our story,” said Jeff Byard, vice president of operations for Team Rubicon.

More About Our iHeartMedia Collaboration

We are excited to collaborate with iHeartMedia’s social responsibility division and to use iHeartIMPACT as a megaphone to amplify this important work and raise awareness for continued response efforts.

Launched in 2019, iHeartIMPACT is a community impact division of iHeartMedia, Inc. designed to help corporate brands use their advertising spends to invest in community organizations addressing critical social causes.

LifeLock appreciates being part of iHeartIMPACT's network of community-focused brand partners leveraging their advertising campaigns to help improve the community, one campaign at a time.