Your gift helps agencies devote less time to fund-raising and more time to serving hundreds of people in need. You can make a difference in the community, and a valuable investment in the betterment of humankind. Enhances your company's image by carrying out a workplace campaign both in the eyes of the employees, and the status in the community. Develops leadership skills on the part of those in charge of a campaign. Heightens employee morale.
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Your organization is only as strong as your employees and the community in which you operate. For a stronger work force and community, we need to address illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, ustable families, children in despair and other problems that contribute to absenteeism, lower productivity, higher benefits costs. Across metropolitan Chicago, more than 430 agencies provide a broad range of United Way-supported human care services that address critical social problems. Support of United Way is vital to keep this human service network in place at a time of less government funding and expanding welfare reform. To make it happen, United Way needs the support of individuals, organizations and workplace campaigns.