Humane Society takes field trip to Navient

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Navient Senior Vice President Jon Kroehler makes friends with Professor Wigglebottom, visiting Navient’s Fishers offices May 18 from the Humane Society for Hamilton County. (Photos by Sam Elliott)
Navient Senior Vice President Jon Kroehler makes friends with Professor Wigglebottom, visiting Navient’s Fishers offices May 18 from the Humane Society for Hamilton County. (Photos by Sam Elliott)

By Sam Elliott

The Humane Society for Hamilton County took 16 dogs on a field trip to Fishers May 18 for the organization’s second “Walk the Employees” event behind Navient’s offices on USA Parkway.

Dozens of Navient employees spent their lunch hours walking dogs around the office complex’s scenic trails.

“It’s not about walking the dogs — it’s about the dogs walking the employees,” Humane Society for Hamilton County Executive Director Rebecca Stevens said. “It’s our human-walking program here where we wanted to get employees out away from their desks, encourage people to exercise, get some fresh air — and what better way to do that than to come and hang out with some shelter dogs? And secretly we hope they fall in love and we hope some adoptions come as a result.”

Hundreds of Navient’s approximately 1,500 Fishers employees have made donations to the Humane Society for Hamilton County, with money from a fundraiser in which employees purchase tickets to be able to wear blue jeans to work benefitting the shelter’s survival fund.

“Our employees are very big on community connections,” Navient Senior Vice President Jon Kroehler said. “This is one of the organizations the employees are supporting financially, so we thought this would be a cool thing to also bring greater visibility and maybe even have some adoptions come out of it.”

“It’s really a good, fun win-win for everybody,” Stevens added. “Their employees have been really supportive of the shelter for the last at least three years. They get to choose the charities they want to support and they’ve chosen us. Every year they sell tickets for people to wear jeans to work. It’s been about $10,000 or $11,000 each year for the past three years.”


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