Meet with your United Way Community Investment Advisor
Each company has a designated representative from United Way of Salt Lake to help and support throughout the entire employee giving campaign process. Don't have a Community Investment Advisor? Contact Jason Castor at 801.736.7708 to get set up! 

• Get to know your Community Investment Advisor
• Review company campaign history
• Arrange future meetings and delivery of campaign materials

Inolve your CEO
Enlist your CEO and top management's visible and personal support to ensure your workplace campaign is a success. Ask your CEO to ...

• Support the necessary time to plan and run a workplace campaign hold employee educational meetings, committee meetings, special events, etc.
• Pledge a corporate gift and/or consider a 1:1 match
• Speak at rallies, events, and meetings
• Send a personal e-mail or letter to employees (find a sample letter in the Tool Box)

Recruit and train your planning committee
A planning committee will help you bring ideas and enthusiasm from different departments. Invite your Community Investment Advisor to attend your meetings to help train and educate your committee.

• Include representatives from all areas of the company who are energetic, organized and well-liked by their peers
• Review any previous campaigns and develop a strategy and timeline for reaching your goals
• Delegate responsibilities for the different components of your campaign

Develop a plan and establish a timeline
Good planning is vital to the success of your campaign. Your Community Investment Advisor can help you develop a timeline that you can use to map out your road to success.

• Set your campaign dates for employee meetings, special events and other activities (find a sample timeline in the Tool Box)
• Finalize a plan for distributing and collecting pledge forms
• Consider e-Pledge online giving (e-mail addresses must be provided for al employees)

Set Goals
Setting realistic and challenging goals is important to ensure your workplace giving campaign is a success. Your Community Investment Advisor can help you strategize. 

• Increase participation among employees
• Increase the average employee gift