Thursday, September 9, 2010

United Way holds LIVE UNITED Day; Raises over $35k in Internal Campaign

Here are a few ways our staff members LIVE UNITED...

LIVE UNITED day at the office!

In honor of our internal campaign raising $38,115 (with 100% full time staff participation no less!), we dubbed this particular friday LIVE UNITED day. Our staff don't just wear the shirt, they live it, but today was all about wearing it! We ran an internal campaign because if we're asking companies across the four county area to hold a campaign to raise money for the community, well shoot, we can too!

(Barbara and Jose felt a little left out because they missed the group shot)

We had our staff write their LIVE UNITED stories and here are a few amazing examples:

"I run an art program using volunteers at my son's school." - Pam

"I am a gallon blood donor with the Red Cross. I have a rare blood type that is always in short supply." - Jeff

"I LIVE UNITED by giving my time to Habitat for Humanity using my community service hours provided by United Way." - Aaron

And there are many more great stories where those came from. We've initiated #LiveUnitedTues on our twitter and facebook pages and we'll share one fantastic LIVE UNTIED story each Tuesday. So follow us for LIVE UNITED Tuesdays so follow us on twitter and Like us on Facebook to see who's story is posted next Tuesday!

If you would like to share your LIVE UNTIED story with us, please email me at caitlinc@unitedway-pdx.org.

Stay tunned for some more info on the fun events we held during our internal campaign. Maybe you'll get some ideas for your company's campaign!

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