29 Million Dollars & Counting for the United Way

Photo by Denis Cahill
Photo by Denis Cahill

 

No one benefits more from our members than the United Way.  In 2014 when the United Way Celebrated 60 years in the community they acknowledged the longest and most profitable relationship was with our members and the workplaces they work. Since the Red Feather Campaign started in 1953 our members have helped raise millions of dollars.  The first campaign donation in 1953  was $150,000, in 1991 the membership raised a record breaking one million dollars for the first time. By the end of 2013, the total funds raised was a staggering  $29,254,276.  The reason this amount is so significant, it represent 33% of all donation received by the United Way since its doors opens back in 1953.