​Each Fall, United Way leads community fundraising through workplace and residential campaigns and
​special events. Campaign dollars fund local programs that help local people all year round.

Here are 4 ways businesses/organizations can be involved:

Organize a Workplace Campaign

United Way workplace campaigns are about bringing people in local workplaces together to tackle our community's most difficult issues in the areas of education, financial stability, and health. Whether you're a small business, major corporation or even a nonprofit, you can join the hundreds of local businesses and organizations that run workplace campaigns each year.
Benefits:
  • Build Your Team: Engaging employees in a community partnership strengthens talent retention, boosts morale, and provides staff development opportunities.
  • Build Your Business: Community involvement helps you reach a broader audience. You can see increased sales and improved client relationships.
  • Build Your Reputation: Community focus strengthens you as an industry and community leader with stakeholders, employees, and customers.
United Way will help you design a campaign to meet your needs. (See below).

Corporate Gifts

By investing your corporate charitable dollars with United Way, you get a partner who:
  • Directs your gift in a targeted, measurable way.
  • Supports dozens of the best local programs run by non-profit agencies that meet or exceed United Way standards.
  • Brings together top corporate leaders who recognize that a healthy community is good for business.

Support Employee Volunteerism

Individuals and groups can make a difference in your community and help bring about the change they want to see by volunteering for a cause or organization that shares their ideals.Volunteering not only provides the satisfaction of making a difference - it can offer other benefits, such as:
  • Learning new skills
  • Meeting new people, including business contacts
  • Providing a sense of worth, satisfaction, and making a difference

Loaned Executive Program

Loaned Executives are individuals “loaned” to United Way from an organization or sponsored with funds from local companies. Loaned Executives function as extensions of the United Way fundraising staff in coordinating employee campaigns and soliciting employee pledges throughout Mid Coast Maine during the Campaign. Loaned Executives build leadership, communication, and teamwork skills while assisting local employers in planning, implementing, and managing successful United Way workplace campaigns. Serving as United Way spokespeople, Loaned Executives convey the mission, vision, and values of United Way to the community.
Companies that offer Loaned Executives and/or sponsor Loaned Executives include L.L.Bean, Hannaford, Norway Savings Bank, BIW, Local S6, Bath Savings Institution, and FHC, Inc.

If you are interested in any of these involvement options, please contact Tom Blatz 
at 207-443-9752 or tblatz@uwmcm.orgmailto:tblatz@uwmcm.org.

We Make Campaigns worthwhile

There are many advantages to running a United Way workplace campaign:
  • United Way of Mid Coast Maine offers a simple, convenient, and efficient way for your employees to support the community and causes they believe in.
  • Your employees may give in regular increments with easy payroll deduction.
  • A workplace campaign will help your company to achieve its Corporate Social Responsibility goals.
  • Your employees will be able to tap into a wealth of volunteer opportunities and receive information about what is happening in their community, including the free, confidential referral system 2-1-1.
We will provide you with all the tools and support you need.
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United Way of Mid Coast Maine is a tested leader in workplace giving and we thoroughly vet our nonprofit members annually to ensure we provide donors with access to the most effective nonprofit organizations in the area.

Through a workplace campaign your employees will experience the satisfaction of seeing their donations turn into programs and services that create impact on people’s lives. When they see the needle moving on important social issues in our community, they will know your company or organization helped to make a difference and they will feel proud of their collective accomplishments.
United Way of Mid Coast Maine will partner with you to develop a customized fundraising campaign that aligns with your corporate values, as well as the particular interests of your employees. We will provide training and support to assist you in building your fundraising team and running an effective campaign.  We will provide you with the tools and resources needed to be successful.
If you would like to learn more about starting a workplace campaign in your company or organization, or need assistance running your campaign, please contact Tom Blatz, Director of Campaign 207-443-9752.
Giving is always a choice & you have options when you give. Yes, you can opt to designate (restrict) your dollars to a specific agency, however here are 4 reasons to give an undesignated gift which goes to the Community Fund:

Scope: It supports a collective impact effort, with invested dollars strategically allocated to a variety of organizations, programs, and partnerships that work together toward better health, education, and financial stability for local residents.

United Way funds a continuum of services so that the needs of the whole person/family can be met. i.e. you help a child and their parent; you help someone find a job and help them with day care. The whole community benefits.

Oversight: United Way convenes community leaders to research needs, select the most effective approach to creating solutions, and identify programs best qualified to do the work. Fund distribution is a volunteer-led process.

Reach: By giving through United Way, donors can make a difference on a wide variety of local issues. United Way's broad reach touches lives of our neighbors and people whose lives we can only begin to imagine. (In Mid Coast Maine, 1 in 5 residents were helped by a United Way-funded program in 2015) 

Leverage: Your gift has a huge impact when pooled with those of other donors. United Way leverages volunteer power, donor dollars, and community resources to create long-lasting change.