Leadership Giving

What is "Leadership Giving?"

Leadership Giving through United Way is the strategy to use when soliciting donations from top management or executives. These gifts to our community can be given individually by your employees, or split gifts through your employee and their spouse's workplace.

Leadership Giving is critical to United Way's ability to effect positive results in our community and your United Way account manager can provide you with information on conducting a leadership campaign within your company.

Some quick facts about leadership giving:

• Leadership Giving begins at the $500 and ranges to the Alexis deTocqueville Society level of $10,000 or more.


• Leadership Givers are published in the annual Leadership Giving booklet (all requests for anonymity are honored).


• Leadership Giving receptions are often attended by your company's executive staff, your United Way account manager, and even United Way's president, Susan Gilmore, or the current campaign's chairman.


• Leadership Giving can multiply your company's campaign results substantially and provide much-needed programs to the Lehigh Valley. Remember, in 2007, program funding requests totaled over $10 million dollars and United Way only had $5 million to distribute!

If you are interested in boosting your company's campaign results through a new or reinvigorated Leadership Giving campaign, please contact your account manager:

Dave Jacoby, Vice President of Resource Development
davej@unitedwayglv.org 610-807-5709

Beth Blasco, Account Manager
bethb@unitedwayglv.org 610-807-5731

Sarah Blum, Account Manager
sarahb@unitedwayglv.org 610-807-5704

Fundraising Ideas

Please post replies here about the different fundraisers you've used for your United Way campaigns. Tell other coordinators what size organization you used these fundraisers for, and if you had a budget. Also, make sure to mention how successful your efforts were and whether employees showed interest!

So, What's This Blog About, Anyway?

We realize this is probably a new concept to many of you and, to some, may seem a bit different. We created this campaign information portal just for you, hoping to give each of you instant access to United Way tools, resources, and information in the fastest, most efficient way possible. Thank goodness for technology, huh?

The purpose of the Campaign Coordinator Cafe Blog is to regularly update you on campaign tips, tricks and tools that you can use in your company's campaign, polls and surveys that give you the opportunity to share your interests and concerns not only with your United Way account manager, but to share with people just like you - campaign coordinators out in the Valley, and to keep you informed about upcoming events and training sessions that may be of interest to you.

Please email Sarah Blum, United Way account manager and blog moderator, with any questions/concerns/comments you may have at sarahb@unitedwayglv.org.

We hope you enjoy this interactive portal and welcome your comments!