About Us

Since 1883, Modern Woodmen of America has brought people together, supported families and strengthened communities.

About Us
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Modern Woodmen of America, Rock Island, IL

Looking for a meaningful career?

Grow with Modern Woodmen! As a financial representative, you can make a positive impact for your family and your community.

Financial Planning

We can help you meet your current needs, achieve your future dreams and plan for all stages of life.

Planning for Life
Stories of strength from our history
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Persevering Through Uncertain Times

Our Products

Modern Woodmen maintains a portfolio of high-quality financial products that can help you meet a wide range of life needs.

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Browse our helpful tips and articles to understand what’s important to you and your loved ones.

My Membership

When you join Modern Woodmen, you become a member of the organization. You trust us with your financial needs. And you have the opportunity to access fraternal member programs and impact your community.

My Membership
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Member Website Overview

Make a payment, update your address, and access account information, online forms and fraternal programs from the member website.

Get to Know a Home Office Employee

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Senior network administrator Joe McElhiney, Modern Woodmen of America
Senior network administrator Joe McElhiney, Modern Woodmen of America

Meet Joe

I’m from … Bettendorf, Iowa.

My family includes … my wife, Karen, and two children, Zach and Bri.

A personal passion of mine is … music. I’ve played the saxophone since fourth grade, and I picked up the guitar when I was in high school.

In a nutshell, my job is to … provision, install, configure and maintain systems hardware and software. Some of the environments I help support include the virtual server infrastructure, windows server environment, storage area network and the enterprise backup strategy. My team is also responsible for maintaining systems hardware, software and infrastructure at Modern Woodmen’s disaster recovery site.

To me, Modern Woodmen is … more than just a fantastic place to work. It’s an organization with an outward focus. I appreciate the way Modern Woodmen gives back to local communities by providing educational, social and volunteer programs to meet local needs throughout the country.

Modern Woodmen cares equally about its employees. It’s a great place to work because of the people, the work environment and the fantastic benefits. (The view of the Mississippi River is pretty nice too!)

I feel really good about my job when … I can save the day for fellow headquarters employees. I enjoy the reactions I receive when files, folders or systems that people once believed were gone forever have been recovered. It’s the day-to-day interactions that make me feel good about my job at Modern Woodmen.