We officially kicked off the Agency’s United Way campaign today! There are many fun things planned, and if you didn’t get all of it this morning, here’s the run down!
Heartland participates in an annual campaign because the United Way serves families and students in our communities in ways that are complimentary to our agency’s vision and mission. Your donations are directly applied to United Way community priorities in education, income and health. The United Way supports programs that help high school students graduate on time and support other programs that increase the learning growth and school readiness of early and middle-grade students. That’s quite comparable to our Agency’s educational goals! We hope you feel comfortable by choosing to donate to worthy causes through the United Way.
Our goal this year is to increase employee participation through pledge card giving and special events.
Pledge Your Continued Support
Our agency’s leaders are supportive of our United Way campaign and would really like to improve participation through our pledge card donations. If you choose to donate, it can be as small as $2.50 per pay period (that’s just $5 a month!) or increasing your existing gift donations. Every bit helps!
It is important that if you choose to do a pay deduction, your total contribution is evenly divisible by 24 pay periods. Remember that pay deduction pledges from last year’s drive continue to be in effect until December 31, 2012. Deductions for this year’s drive will start in January and continue through December.
The pledge form does have an area at the bottom where you can designate donations of $50 and over to other United Way offices or any of the organizations listed on the United Way’s website at www.unitedwaydm.org/designations.
As an added incentive, if you submit a completed pledge card with any donation amount by August 24 will get to leave 2 hours early on August 31, the Friday before Labor Day weekend. You will not have to submit vacation time for the 2 hours and if you fill out a timecard, you may mark it as normal time worked. Send your completed form via van mail to Claire Sowder in the Johnston Administration Center by August 24 to be eligible for the early leave incentive.
If for any reason you do not wish to donate to United Way, the Community Health Charities of Iowa and Iowa Shares are two other charity organizations in which you can donate. We are unable to do payroll deductions for these organizations at this time. If you choose to donate to these organizations, you can contact the agencies at the following numbers:
- Community Health Charities of Iowa (877) 517-6266
- Iowa Shares (319) 338-1446
Blank pledge cards will be sent to each regional office this week if you didn’t get a chance to visit the United Way booth this morning.
Regional Events
Soon you will hear from your Regional Director about fundraising events that will happen in the regional offices between now and September 28 (the last day of our campaign).
Online Auction
Once again, we’ll be closing our United Way campaign with the Online Auction from September 24-28. Last year’s auction was our best yet, and we hope it will be quite the success again!
Each staff member will be able to donate items or go together with co-workers to submit a group item. (Please note: Private delivery arrangements must be made for items too large or heavy for Heartland van delivery.) Send a digital photo and short description of your item to the Communications Department at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us. We ask that you keep items until the close of the auction.
Voluntary Participation
Your participation in the Agency’s United Way events is voluntary. It is not the Agency’s intention to pressure any staff member into donating. We have tried our best to make this year’s campaign events fun and enjoyable, and we hope that you find United Way as an easy way to reach out and help the communities we live in.
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