Encouraging Leadership Giving at Your Workplace

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 four hundred fifty-two Pillars contributed $1,974,774 or fifty-nine percent of the dollars raised in the 2010 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

If you have any questions about the Pillar leadership program contact Carol or Ellen.