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

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

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

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

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

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!