Benefits of United Way Involvement

When you partner with United Way of Kenosha County , you, your company, your employees, and our entire community all benefit. The following are specific benefits available through your involvement with United Way.

	A Successful United Way Campaign Helps Drive Profits A successful United Way campaign can make a positive impact on your business’ bottom line while motivating and training employees, and doing good for the community.
	Resources for Employees Where to go for further service opportunities and to access help from local organizations
	Volunteerism Ways for your company to get involved in the community
	Corporate Recognition United Way recognizes companies who take an active part in serving our communities

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A Successful United Way Campaign Helps Drive Profits
A successful United Way campaign can make a positive impact on your business’ bottom line while motivating and training employees, and doing good for the community.

• A strong campaign enables you to identify strong performers
  By assigning a manager to run the United Way campaign, you can test his/her abilities to handle greater business responsibilities. It requires team-building, effective communications, presentation skills, sales know-how and detailed project management. You can see your managers interact with other parts of the organization and get a feel for those who know how to get things done. You can compare them with other members of the corporate team in a setting outside their normal responsibilities. So campaign leadership is a good management test, without risk to your organization.
  
  
• You gain improvements in individual and team productivity
  When you break down unit or divisional barriers by motivating employees to work together on any kind of activity-such as volunteer service-it creates friendships, communication and respect. Eliminating organizational barriers teaches people to work together more productively; and productivity leads to profits.
  
  
• A successful campaign enables employees to “win”
  even if the organization is having problems
  A victory in any environment is uplifting to people's spirits, morale and energy. A successful campaign helps build a tradition of winning, whatever the business environment. When we think of ourselves as winners in everything we do, it creates a can-do attitude that helps the organization.
  
  
• A successful campaign helps develop employee involvement
  and ownership of decisions
  All businesses, and particularly entrepreneurial enterprises, need activities – such as a United Way campaign – that involve employees in decision-making, in which they can contribute and feel important.
  
  
• Successful campaigns generate publicity and good will
  Positive name recognition is created through service to the community as well as by the excellence of your products and services. When you're publicly recognized for your community-based efforts – in newspapers, on radio and at United Way community events-the residual image benefits can be high. Often, customers, suppliers and vendors may not remember exactly why they think highly of an organization, they just do. Employees, too, feel good when they see positive news about their company. Success and recognition from a great United Way campaign are effective ways to build a company’s image without spending more promotional dollars. Such publicity complements your advertising efforts

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Resources for Employees
Where to go for further service opportunities and to access help from local organizations

• Visit the United Way of Kenosha County Website. It is an invaluable resource to learn about volunteer opportunities, how to get help, and what is happening in our community. It also contains all the information your United Way Coordinator needs to run a successful United Way campaign.
  
  
• Community Resource Directory: The comprehensive directory of resources for getting and giving help in Kenosha County. Indexed by agency names and service categories for ease of use by service providers, service recipients, volunteers, human resource departments and your company.
  
  
• Support Groups/Classes, Youth Resources, and Community Resources brochures are a great resources for your Human Resource Department and your United Way Coordinator. They offer a quick and easy way to access health and human service organizations in Kenosha County.

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Volunteerism
Ways for your company to get involved in the community

• Volunteer Center: Everything from corporate food drives to refurbishing a neighborhood drop in center can be coordinated for your company through the United Way Volunteer Center. The Volunteer Center has year-round projects that will help your company foster improved company morale and dedication to building our community.
  
  
• Gifts-In-Kind: United Way’s gifts in kind program serves to help meet basic nonprofit non-financial requests by linking them with goods and services donated by the corporate sector. Product contributions are a great way to assist organizations in directing more of their budgetary dollars to client services. Examples of needed donations include office equipment and supplies, computers and printers, entertainment coupons and tickets, new toys and books.

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Corporate Recognition
United Way recognizes companies who take an active part in serving our communities.

• United Way salutes the top United Way community partners for all their work. Our annual Thank You event provides public recognition to outstanding organizations involved on a year-round basis with United Way through donation of goods, dollar contributions, services and employee volunteer time.
  
  
• Company Involvement: United Way of Kenosha County wants to recognize those companies who take an active part improving lives in our communities. We do this through press releases, awards, United Way materials, and our Web site.

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