Encouraging Leadership Giving at Your Workplace

United Way is proud to recognize 25 years of Pillar giving in Champaign County during the 2010 Campaign.  Mark your calendars for a special celebration on Friday, November 5, 2010 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the I-Hotel and Conference Center. 

What is a Company Leadership Giving Program?

A conscious and strategic effort to encourage employees with an exceptionally generous spirit, a desire to step forward and act on that spirit, and a well-placed trust in United Way to make a leadership gift of $500 or more. Our United Way of Champaign County leadership program, Pillars, was established in 1985. One thousand three hundred seventy-four Pillars contributed $1,722,167 or fifty-six percent of the dollars raised in the 2008 Campaign. Across the country, leadership giving is the fastest-growing segment of most company workplace campaigns. Recent surveys suggest companies that have a workplace leadership giving program in place experience, on average, twenty percent higher employee per capita giving than companies without a workplace leadership campaign effort.

United Way of Champaign County Pillar Leadership Giving Levels

$ 500 - $ 999 Bronze Circle

$ 1,000 - $1,999 Silver Circle

$ 2,000 - $2,999 Gold Circle

$ 3,000 - $4,999 Platinum Circle

$ 5,000 - $7,499 Cornerstone Circle

$ 7,500 - $9,999 Diamond Circle

$10,000+ Alexis de Tocqueville Society

Pillar Plus - Increase of annual gift of 10% or greater