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United Way of North Central Florida 2009 Inspiring Success Award Winners 2009
Category: Companies with less than 150 employees
Winner:
Wachovia – Campaign Coordinators Kristina Powers, Elizabeth Brown & Sam Goforth
Over 75% employee participation rates
Doubled monetary donations from leadership givers since last year
Raised over $42,000 dollars through leadership gifts and employee donations
Runner Ups:
Alachua County Tax Collector – Campaign Coordinator Stephanie Kelley
Raised over $1,100 selling raffle tickets for community donated items
Informs all new hires of United Way and its programs
Held extensive “Thank You” campaign to community donors
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Damage Recovery Unit - Campaign Coordinator Jenna White
97% employee participation
Raised over $13,000
Grandiflora – Campaign Coordinator Alex Gillespie, Co-Coordinator Heather
Promoted employees giving volunteer time through a field day event
Distributed information about various volunteer opportunities to employees
Nearly 50% of employees donated
Category: Companies with 150-500 employees
Winner:
AvMed – Campaign Coordinators Christian Long & Jennifer Blades
Sponsored a "We, Not Me" campaign to promote AvMed Lives United program
Raised over 12,000 food items and children’s books in their employee food and book drive
Donated over $75,000 through payroll donations, leadership givers and other donations
Doubled their monetary donation goal
Runner Ups:
Alachua County Library District – Campaign Coordinator Stephanie Ksionzyk
Held food drives at the 6 local library branches
Raised over $1,400 in change drives at the library branches
Raised over $10,000 in donations from employees
O2B Kids – Campaign coordinator Emmy Vincent
Raised over 1200 lbs. of food in their special project, the Weekend Hunger Backpack Program, which provides food for children on Alachua County School District’s free/reduced lunch program
Tripled their monetary donations and employee participation for the previous year
Category: Companies with more than 500 employees
Winner:
Gainesville Regional Utilities – Campaign Coordinator Nona Jones
Promoted United WAy year round through campaign events beginning in February
Contacted almost 100% of employees face-to-face to promote United Way donations
Raised over $60,000 dollars and a matching corporate gift, with ten new leadership givers from last year
Category: Florida State Employees' Charitable Campaign
Winner:
North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center - Campaign Coordinator Mitch Coulton
Held a book drive in the cafeteria that was promoted via email to all employees
Sold Harvest Leaves to employees
Thank you dinner/breakfast to donors
Raised over $20,000 through employee donations and leadership gifts
Runner Up:
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services - Campaign Coordinators Debra Martinez, Steve Hildebrandt & Amber Totten
Hosted year-round programs encouraging donations and promoting United Way
Had a visible donation chart for competition between different areas
Raised over $11,000 through creative donation events
Congratulations to all the winners and runner ups! Your contributions help change lives in North Central Florida!