The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest fraternal service organization with nearly 15,000 councils made up of 1.9 million members.
The organization was founded by American priest Michael J. McGivney in 1882 in Hartford, Connecticut. The motivation of the founding was to be a society of mutual benefit. McGivney was a priest in an immigrant community and he understood the challenges facing the community, especially to widows and orphans when the main wage earner died. He decided to provide insurance to care for them.
At the time, Catholics were regularly excluded from labor unions, organizations providing social services, and fraternal organizations and McGivney wanted to offer an alternative organization for adult Catholic men.
Today Knights of Columbus provides life insurance, annuities, and long-term care insurance to organization members and their families. The group also manages the religious art and history museum in Connecticut, the Knights of Columbus Museum.
Knights of Columbus is #935 in the Fortune 1000 and had over $2 billion in revenue in 2014.
In addition to insurance, the company operates many fundraisers and scholarship programs.
Knights of Columbus maintains a corporate office where it was founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest fraternal service organization with nearly 15,000 councils made up of 1.9 million members.
The organization was founded by American priest Michael J. McGivney in 1882 in Hartford, Connecticut. The motivation of the founding was to be a society of mutual benefit. McGivney was a priest in an immigrant community and he understood the challenges facing the community, especially to widows and orphans when the main wage earner died. He decided to provide insurance to care for them.
History
At the time, Catholics were regularly excluded from labor unions, organizations providing social services, and fraternal organizations and McGivney wanted to offer an alternative organization for adult Catholic men.
Today Knights of Columbus provides life insurance, annuities, and long-term care insurance to organization members and their families. The group also manages the religious art and history museum in Connecticut, the Knights of Columbus Museum.
Knights of Columbus is #935 in the Fortune 1000 and had over $2 billion in revenue in 2014.
In addition to insurance, the company operates many fundraisers and scholarship programs.
Knights of Columbus maintains a corporate office where it was founded in New Haven, Connecticut.