Workplace Campaigns

One of United Way's primary goals is to mobilize communities in order to improve lives. Many of our businesses, schools and other employers invite a United Way representative to speak with their employees. We let employees know about pressing community needs and how they can help. A workplace campaign is an effective way for your company to get involved and improve the community where you do business. A United Way campaign is a fun way to build teamwork and improve morale. Study after study have shown that people want to help make their community better.

Start a United Way Campaign

United Way St. Croix Valley will provide the tools that you need for planning and implementing a campaign. You can run a successful campaign at your work site even if you have never done it in the past. A United Way staff member or volunteer will help guide you through every step of the campaign process. You can get started by contacting our office for Current Campaign Materials, which provides a great deal of information about how to run a campaign. You will be most successful by offering employees the option of having a modest amount deducted from their check each pay period. Most businesses then send payments to us on a monthly or quarterly basis.

We also can supply a Campaign Report form, an Excel spreadsheet that can help you track employee donations. The spreadsheet will automatically calculate the percentage of employee participation and show you how close you are to achieving your company goal.

In addition, United Way can provide an array of promotional items such as posters, football schedules, thank you pins, thank you post cards, goal thermometers, informational payroll stuffers, pledge forms and reporting envelopes. We also have a speaker’s bureau of nonprofit agency representatives. They can give your employees first-hand accounts of the people who are helped by their agency and about the importance of United Way. A five minute promotional video is also available.

United Way St. Croix Valley offers campaign team training at various locations in our communities just prior to our campaign kick-off in the fall. On-site campaign training can also be arranged. For materials or more information contact us at 715-377-0203 or by email.

A Story of What One Business Can Do

Nexen Employees Have a History with United Way

Nexen has been a philanthropic community partner for years, beginning with the founders’ involvement with Community Chest in the 1950’s. Later when United Way came into existence they partnered with the organization through Nexen’s corporate office, where employees and company owners worked together to plan and execute successful United Way campaigns.

In 1994 Nexen conducted its first United Way campaign at the Webster, WI location, where the campaign committee was enthusiastic about helping Nexen become even more involved with United Way and its mission. In its first campaign, the Webster location participated in many of the campaign activities launched at Nexen’s corporate location, including hosting a kick-off lunch and speakers from local organizations as well as holding raffles and giving away door prizes. The first Webster campaign was an overall success, raising significant funds for United Way and boosting employee morale.

Each year Nexen’s Webster campaign has grown and has been more successful than the previous. The planning committees have become more creative in customizing campaign activities and local organizations are able to tell their stories and express their needs to Nexen employees. At the campaign wrap-up events, appreciation is shown to employees for their ongoing generosity toward United Way.

Over the past 14 years, Nexen’s Webster location has raised more than $450,000 for organizations in Washburn and Burnett counties through its United Way campaigns. The funds raised have enabled programs for the elderly to take on additional clients, fire departments to buy needed equipment and youth programs to flourish. The company’s most recent employee campaign raised more than $24,000 in pledges and raffle sales. An additional corporate contribution of $22,000 brought the grand total to more than $46,000.

As the single company actively involved in a United Way campaign in Washburn and Burnett counties, Nexen would like to encourage other companies to participate in their own campaigns and help make a difference right where their employees live and work. “We are just one company, and look at how we’ve been able to help,” said Nexen’s Dan Conroy. “Imagine what would be possible if ten employers in each county actively participated in United Way!”

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