Campaign resources help you effectively plan your United Way Workplace Campaign
Without you, there would be no way.
Without you, there would be no way.
Campaign resources help you effectively plan your United Way Workplace Campaign
Thank you for volunteering with your organization’s United Way of the Lower Mainland workplace campaign. Your enthusiasm and hard work fundraising make a tremendous difference in people’s lives in Metro Vancouver.
Our online tool kit is designed to provide everything you need to run a successful, fun workplace campaign. The following campaign tools and resources will help you get started.
The Stories, Videos and Dollars at Work sections of this website provide you information on how people’s donations are building a stronger community and are great resources for communicating the work United Way of the Lower Mainland does.
Need help planning your United Way campaign? Want to know what to say about United Way? Running a Leadership Giving campaign? Training guides are filled with planning checklists, tips and ideas to help you run a successful workplace campaign.
Issue sheets provide facts, figures and programs and service examples for United Way of the Lower Mainland’s three priority areas — Children 0-6, Children 6-12 and Seniors. They can be used in your newsletter, online, in PowerPoint presentations, email messages and in letters.
For additional campaign tools, please contact Anita Kean at 604.268.1300 ext. 2208.
A United Way video is a great way to start your workplace campaign kick-off or to show how a donation to United Way of the Lower Mainland is helping children, families and seniors throughout Metro Vancouver.
You can share United Way’s message of hope and change by embedding United Way videos on your organization’s website or intranet.
Visit our YouTube channel, and copy the code from the embed field, to the right of the video. (See green highlight in image above. Click the image for a larger version.) If you want to customize the size of the video on your website, click on the blue icon to the right of the embed field (red arrow in the image above).
Find out more about embedding videos on YouTube Help.
Stories connect us. They are how we learn. Stories about people helped by United Way of the Lower Mainland are compelling ways to illustrate how your donation changes the life of an at-risk child or an isolated senior and how this makes communities stronger throughout Metro Vancouver. Cut and paste these United Way stories and photos into your newsletter or share them online to build support for your United Way workplace campaign.
Ever wondered where your donation to United Way of the Lower Mainland goes? Who it helps? Dollars at Work in your community is an excellent way to share with your colleagues just how important their gifts are.
Use examples in your newsletter and online to build awareness and support for your United Way campaign.
For as little as the price of a coffee and a sandwich, you can make a difference in someone’s life. Per pay examples illustrate the impact of your United Way campaign donation to United Way of the Lower Mainland.
For example, many of our region’s children between the ages of 6 and 12 don’t have the services, programs and resources they need outside of the classroom to help them grow up healthy, happy and resilient. This leaves kids at risk as they move into their teen years.
A gift of $7 per week allows 22 school-aged children to attend violence prevention workshops and helps break the cycle of abuse, harassment and bullying.*
Use per pay examples to show how a gift can help. Per pay examples are located on the back of the following issue sheets:
*$365/yr based on 26 pay periods for one year.
The United Way of the Lower Mainland Leadership Giving Guide provides tools and tips to help you run a successful Leadership Giving Campaign.
Have a Leadership Presenter speak during your United Way workplace campaign. These accomplished public speakers inspire others to give when they share their experiences.
United Way of the Lower Mainland and organized Labour have a strong and long-standing partnership. If your organization is unionized, the following tools and resources will help you run a United Way workplace campaign.
Read more about the United Way & Labour Partnership.
Use the following forms to order workplace campaign supplies or to book a Community Speaker or an Agency Tour.
A United Way of the Lower Mainland Community Speaker is a great way to inform and inspire your colleagues during a United Way workplace campaign. Speakers share their experiences with a United Way-supported program.
An Agency Tour gives you and your co-workers an opportunity to experience first-hand how their United Way donation is helping change lives in Metro Vancouver.
Regularly submit your Employee Campaign and Special Event Campaign Reports and all pledge forms to your United Way staff partner or Loaned or Sponsored Representative and report final results to your co-workers. Every donor appreciates a timely deduction from their credit card.
United Way of the Lower Mainland graphic and design resources can be used to promote your United Way workplace campaign. Please use our logos and graphics on any support materials you create. It is important not to alter or customize the logo.
Our United Way of the Lower Mainland Brand Guide explains how to use logos and graphic and design elements for your United Way workplace campaign.
To open EPS files, Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator is required. EPS files can be placed in Quark or Adobe InDesign documents. They cannot be placed in Word documents. Word documents accept only JPG files.
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