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In This Issue... Nordstrom Doubles Employee Campaign CEO Performs Karaoke After Employees Reach Campaign Goal
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Venoco, Inc. has just finished the 2006 United Way employee campaign. The campaign was really fun for Venoco employees due to the hard work of the Campaign Committee. The campaign committee included chair Marybeth Carty, Pat Moran, Tony Soriano, Martha Saavedra, Nicole Ling, David Aguilar, and Laurie Styles. The committee rounded up raffle gifts, set up presentations for all employees, and handled all of the company’s pledge forms. The company raffle took place on Monday, November 20th at a company pizza party. Prizes included Caesar’s Palace gift certificates, a Sony Playstation 3, a digital camera, a Video iPod, a digital camcorder, gift certificates to the Ojai Valley Inn, and five full vacation days. Considering the fact that Venoco has only 150 employees, the company was very generous with the prizes offered. The employees were given four presentations-three on-shore, and one off-shore. The off-shore presentation was on Platform Gail. Tony Soriano was nice enough to escort the United Way speaker on the boat ride out to the platform. The speaker, Joel Dinan, noted that Tony went out of his way to make the trip fun and educational. “I really learned quite a bit from Tony about the oil rigs that day” Dinan said. The presentations on-shore included breakfast for the employees, a United Way speaker, and also speakers from Venoco. Venoco runs a very strong campaign every year with strong corporate support. In 2005, with a campaign of almost $35,000, Venoco placed eleventh on the list of biggest employee campaigns in Santa Barbara County. This year, the company matched $17,500 in employee pledges, up from $15,000 in 2005. In addition, the company has also given United Way of Santa Barbara County a $30,000 grant this year to bring the Fun in the Sun program to Carpinteria. The corporate leadership of this company has really set the tone for a strong annual employee campaign.
Montecito Bank & Trust ran another fun campaign thanks in large part to Sacha White and Jessica Johnston, this year’s Campaign Managers. White and Johnston were also assisted by four Team Leaders who helped coordinate presentations and events.
This year’s campaign rose over 6% to $16,880. The campaign started off with “pieces” of information—amazing facts about United Way—sent with Reese’s Pieces to employees. Right before the campaign, White and Johnston delivered a “bit” more information—a campaign brochure—with a Bit O’ Honey. The campaign kicked off with a PowerPoint presentation to Senior Management. The majority of the campaign ran in the next week, with presentations for every branch and department at the bank. Each employee received a personalized pledge form at the presentation to make pledging easier. Meanwhile, the bank promoted Jeans Days (available for $5 each, or 5 for $20) and a bank-wide Holiday Cookbook for $5. White and Johnston collected employee recipes for the cookbook, and several employees purchased 3 or 4 cookbooks to give away as gifts. Both events sold remarkably well and catapulted Montecito Bank & Trust past last year’s goal. Campaign Executive Chris Schwass spoke with White and Johnston after the campaign and they were already brainstorming ideas to make next year’s campaign a bigger success!
Nordstrom set the bar high last year. Under Campaign Manager Lisa McKinley and Store Manager Valerie Korac, the Nordstrom United Way committee planned fun events, motivated employees, and doubled its employee campaign. In all, employees raised over $26,000. This year, McKinley went even further, pushing the goal 5% higher. As always, McKinley planned a spectacular store rally to kick off the campaign, with singing, dancing, prizes, and a bake sale. This late September kickoff brought the store close to its goal, but McKinley and the committee kept going through the month of October, presenting more fun events and collecting all the remaining pledge forms from employees. The campaign culminated in a chili cook-off and balloon pop on Friday, October 27th, followed by a Jeans Day on Saturday, October 28th. Employees cooked up their favorite chili recipes and their coworkers tried it out and voted on the best chili. Meanwhile, employees also bought balloons for $5 and popped them for the prize slips inside: coffee gift certificates, dinners for two, pizza, clothing and more. The Jeans Day—a first for Nordstrom—was a huge hit. 51 employees paid $5 to sport their favorite denim for this Saturday event. With all of the special events and enthusiasm from employees, Nordstrom was able to surpass its goal, coming in at $27,314. Nordstrom came out ahead again, thanks to the extra effort of the campaign committee and the employees.
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