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New 125th anniversary video released
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UPS auctions celebrity, sports & entertainment items
UPS generously donated more than 80 items to auction for United Way now through September 3. The online auction features new items every week, including:
- Sports collectibles autographed by champion athletes, coaches and stars, such as a special edition "Support Our Troops" Goodyear NASCAR Tire autographed by the entire 2011 class of NASCAR Sprint Cup Drivers.
- U.S. Open crystal collectible.
- NCAA® tickets and exclusive merchandise.
- And much more!
Learn more and place your bid.
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Winning practices from 2012 Spirit of America® and Summit winners
P&G—2012 Spirit of America award winner— provides volunteer activities at each company location, allowing more employees to participate and creating greater community impact. Resonating with many employees, participation more than doubled in its second year. Check-out the GCL Toolkit for onsite project ideas.
Publix Super Markets, Inc. —2012 Summit award winner—is committed to quality education. Last year, Publix extensively integrated Born Learning® in communications with customers who have young children through Baby Club with some 200,000 members as well as in Preschool Pals distributed to another 100,000 members. They also placed Born Learning shelf signs with helpful learning messages and tips in store sections likely to be shopped by parents of babies and preschoolers. Learn more about Born Learning.
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Celebrating 125 years of United Way is as
easy as 1, 2, 3
As we celebrate 125 years of the United Way movement, everyone is invited to join hands to improve the education, income and health of our communities. This milestone is more than an opportunity to honor our past. It’s a time to say thank you and bring LIVE UNITED to life in your community.
Volunteer
Create
- Be part of the LIVE UNITED Street Project. Dust off your best ideas for street-level, guerilla marketing, and create a display that gets attention in your community, like a LIVE UNITED “can”struction as part of a food drive or join colleagues wearing LIVE UNITED shirts to form the words LIVE UNITED. Make sure you photograph the LIVE UNITED project and submit it to United Way Worldwide so we can share the great projects throughout the Network, as well as in a commemorative photo book.
Talk
- Host community conversations. Give a BIG thanks to your employee volunteers, donors and campaign team. Get people talking through brown bag lunches or sponsored breaks, social media, and voice mail messages discussing education, income and health.
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2-1-1 plays key role in recent nationwide disaster responses
Wildfires, tropical flooding and storms impacted major portions of US during the past month. In response, the Colorado 211 Collaborative answered all wildfire related calls cooperating with United Ways in affected areas. Dealing with record flooding, United Way of Escambia County in Pensacola, Florida convened community agencies, a number of whom were heavily impacted by the severe flooding, to coordinate community response, while the 2-1-1 call center answered over 200 disaster related calls in the 10-day period surrounding the floods. Derecho, a long-lasting line of thunderstorms producing a large swath of significant wind damage, wreaked havoc on communities in New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia. 2-1-1 calls centers played a key role freeing up 911 emergency lines. Learn more about 2-1-1.
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Airbus' Flying Challenge touches down in 5 countries
United Way Tocqueville France and the Airbus Corporate Foundation launched a key education partnership—Flying Challenge—to support underserved middle school students at a Toulouse, France middle school through a mentoring and tutoring initiative. More than 150,000 kids drop out of school annually in France. The program is designed to equip young people with the skills to tackle challenges in school, work and life in order to achieve their full potential. United Way France, the project facilitator, worked with Airbus Corporate Foundation to pair volunteers with students in Toulouse. As encouragement for participating in the program, Airbus Corporate Foundation offered students a communal flight experience, in support of the organization's youth development goal, and all the students took part. The pilot will expand this year to serve more youth in the Toulouse area along with launching a U.S.-based pilot in Wichita, Kansas. In 2013, Airbus Corporate Foundation plans to expand the reach of the Flying Challenge to support youth in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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Celebrating 50 years by recognizing everything and everyone that's made Walmart … "Walmart"
Fifty years ago, Sam Walton opened the doors to the first Walmart store, creating a company rich in culture and giving back. Walmart knows they can make the greatest impact in communities by supporting causes, like United Way, that are important to their customers right in their own neighborhoods—a "store of the community."
We salute you on this historic anniversary and thank you for your 30 year of partnership. While the actual anniversary date was July 2, 2012, Walmart is celebrating this event all year long—enabling recognition of everything and everyone that has made Walmart … “Walmart.” Learn more.
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AT&T rules Nashville
Teachers spend an average of $40 of their own money each month on classroom supplies. With the help of partners and volunteers, United Ways around the country are ensuring kids and teachers have the essential tools for learning through Stuff the Bus initiatives. Companies like AT&T are having fun while providing these much-needed tools for educational success. AT&T/CWA employees were challenged to collect enough rulers to match the height of the AT&T “Batman Building” (617ft high) as part of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville’s Stuff the Bus Downtown Challenge. AT&T/CWA doubled that challenge and collected over 1,200 rulers to help United Way of Metropolitan Nashville fill 3,400 backpacks!
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BMO Financial Group joins United Way to recruit 3,000 volunteer readers, tutors and mentors in Milwaukee
United Way of Greater Milwaukee launched an initiative this month to recruit 3,000 new volunteer readers, tutors and mentors by 2014 during a special “Brewers Hill Literacy Day.” The event coincided with United Way’s Intern Day of Action. Nearly 250 college interns from area companies including BMO Financial Group were paired with more than 250 children ages 3-16 from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and COA Youth & Family Centers. The young mentors and children spent the afternoon reading and participating in interactive literacy-based games led by First Stage Children’s Theater. Each child received a free book to take home, courtesy of Next Door Foundation. The event was designed to help raise awareness about the important role adults play in a child’s academic success through reading, tutoring and mentoring.
Help us cut by half the number of young people who drop out of high school by 2018. Take the pledge to become a volunteer reader, tutor or mentor.
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Allstate Insurance places second in Corporate Challenge Derby
United Way of Summit County in Akron, Ohio, hosted the 3rd Annual Corporate Challenge Derby on July 13 at historic Derby Downs. Teams from area companies, including Allstate Insurance, spent the afternoon assembling and decorating their historically based cars. When all was said and done, Allstate Insurance zoomed into second place.
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The POWER of WE uniquely depicted in the Twin Cities
Greater Twin Cities United Way rolled-out The POWER of WE campaign last month featuring St. Paul-based Circus Juventas performers creating three poses — a house, the ABCs and a wheelchair ramp — to depict how a community, working together, can serve those who are most in need. “We’re thrilled with this fresh approach toward telling the story we love to tell: the collaboration of individuals can really make a difference in our community,” said Kathy Hollenhorst, senior vice president of marketing for Greater Twin Cities United Way. “What a privilege it’s been to watch this work unfold and to anticipate its power as a tool for generating real support for those who need it.” Preview The POWER of WE video.
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Eli Lilly and Company joins volunteers to read 'round the circle with NFL player Antoine Bethea
More than 300 people joined Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis Colts Defensive Back Antoine Bethea and The Cat in the Hat for a relay reading of the beloved children's book, Charlotte's Web in Monument Circle last month. The event, sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, kicked off United Way of Central Indiana's Read.Tutor.Mentor. initiative to recruit more volunteers to boost every child's success in school and in life. Learn more.
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Participate in LIVE UNITED Read Learn Succeed
Next year, United Way will launch its first-ever national education campaign – LIVE UNITED Read Learn Succeed—to motivate Americans to take action in helping kids learn to read. The campaign will be a fully-integrated 360-degree marketing campaign that includes a virtual book drive, online hub where people can give, advocate and volunteer, PSAs, PR, as well as events in local communities and cause marketing opportunities. Join us by hosting a virtual book drive during this holiday season. Learn more.
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United Way Day of Action reaches 20,000 commuters in Mumbai
United Way Mumbai Helpline focuses on civic, environmental and disaster preparedness issues. on June 21, United Way Day of Action, over 150 volunteer college students and school children joined hands with United Way Mumbai Helpline staff and carried out awareness drives focusing on environmental issues including maintaining cleanliness at three major railway stations throughout Mumbai in partnership with Western Railway authorities. All three stations receive extensive foot traffic throughout the day, with considerable pressure on the local environment as a result. The volunteers reached thousands of commuters to build awareness of maintaining better environmental conditions in public places. Volunteers wore aprons and carried placards, posters and banners with messages to encourage commuters to keep the stations clean and to help maintain the city. Read more about this event and learn more about the United Way of India.
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Tooth fairies come in all shapes and sizes
A recent Dental Camp, organized by United Way of Mumbai on behalf of JPMorgan Chase & Co., reached over 80 underprivileged children from their Gyan Vikas Kendra, Turbhe (Navi Mumbai). During an interactive session, volunteers spoke about the importance of dental hygiene. Education is key—“if a patient cannot clean his teeth; no dentist can clean it for him.” The children also received a basic dental examination and were referred to the dentist if further treatment was needed.
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United Way Store offers smart ways to LIVE UNITED
Smart phones have revolutionized our lives, but keeping your screen clean while on the run can prove challenging. The answer—a cost effective customizable LIVE UNITED micro-clean wiper that affixes to the back of smartphones—putting cleaning at your fingertips. Contact the United Way Store today for this and other customizable supplies, such as: t-shirts, pins, giveaways, and signage. Proceeds from purchases with United Way Store are invested into the United Way network to advance the common good.
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