Campaign Central
The annual campaign, led by Rose Branda and Craig Bamberg will officially start September 29 at the first annual United Way Walk at the new Collier County Park on Livingston Road.
Get involved in supporting our community.
Corporate contributors comprise a major part of United Way’s donations.
- You can organize and manage a corporate campaign at your place of business. Our staff will be with you every step of the way to help you develop an effective and fun campaign, providing speakers, campaign brochures and pledge cards, videos and other material you might find helpful. It is important to us that your campaign be as easy and painless as possible!
Business Contact Form - You might consider being a Pacesetter. Your company can get a head start on the campaign as well as special recognition. A Pacesetter campaign is undertaken in the late summer/early fall and completed prior to the official kick-off on October 1. Your company’s campaign results are announced at the kickoff event along with other Pacesetters. Pacesetters constitute the foundation of the campaign’s efforts, creating momentum for the rest of the campaign.
- In our rapidly growing business community, providing introductions to business owners and managers is very valuable to United Way. Letting the business owner know you support United Way is a great way to help us find new supporters.
Residential (non-corporate) donations represent a larger percentage of community contributions than in many other United Ways. Your support in our residential campaign provides a great opportunity to reach out to a far greater number of residents. With so many “new” residents, many are unaware of issues that are unique to Collier County, assuming our United Way is more or less like the United Way in the former residence. We are confident that when residents learn of human service needs and how easy it would be to have a positive impact on someone’s life, we will find many additional supporters and volunteers.
- Organizing and participating in a United Way campaign in your neighborhood or community. Get your neighbors involved. Hold a block party. Maybe a golf or tennis tournament would have appeal to your neighbors? You may even want to challenge another community to match what your community raises.
- Host smaller groups in your home or have a progressive dinner party with a United Way agency speaker at each stop.
- Include information about the United Way campaign and its partner agencies in your community newsletter.
- Some of our supporters directly solicit their neighbors, face to face or through a selected mailing. One of these might work for you
- The United Way publicly acknowledges Donors giving $500 and above are included in our Neapolitan Society Honor Roll. Donors giving over $10,000 are recognized locally as members of the Neapolitan Society, and nationally as member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society.
There are many ways to assist in the campaign, limited only by one’s imagination. Please contact Shannon Anderson, Campaign Director to put your ideas to work.