2008 Collaboration Conference

1. 2008 CollaborationConference Introduction to the United Community Fund @ the Tipton County Foundation

2. Welcome Give Where I Live Tom McKinney, past chairman of the board of the Tipton County Foundation

3. Agenda • The United Way • Sustainability of Agencies • Community Impact • Campaign 2008 • Group Discussion

4. Vocabulary • Tipton County’s Community Fund is NOT an affiliate of the United Way of America. • It Never Was, Even When it Briefly Used the Name “United Way”. • United Fund is NOT a Protected Brand Name and is Used by Us and a Few Others in Indiana. • We ARE Members of the Indiana Association of United Ways and Receive Terrific Benefits~ BUT We CANNOT Use the National Marketing Materials, Including Their Logo.

5. What have we learned from United Way’s history? • Collaboration • Payroll Deduction/Workplace Campaign • Funding of Basic Operations of Social Service Organizations

6. Boys & Girls Club Mustard Seed Senior Center Caregiver Companion Scouting Red Cross Salvation Army Collaboration • Joint Campaign/No Competition • Sharing the Work • Sharing the Money Habitat for Humanity

7. Relations With Business • Workplace Campaign for Individual Gifts • Payroll Deduction • Company Match • Amnesty?

8. What Else Does the United Way/ Community Fund Experience Teach Us? • Decline in workplace giving • Competition grows exponentially • Donor choice • Educating the public • Technology makes giving easy • “Middle man” role and “one campaign for all” no longer valued as highly • Leadership givers want results!

9. Sustainability New Impact Initiatives Organization Memberships Sponsorships

10. What is Community Impact? • Civic Engagement (T3) • Mobilizing communities to create sustained changes to improve lives. • Is not just about improving lives of clients of funded programs. • Is about improving lives of people affected by the community’s priority issues.

11. Campaign 2008 “Connecting People to Causes That Matter” Promotional brochure makes the case for support of the program outcomes of participating agencies and TCF field of interest funds. Mailed to every household and business First week of September 11

12. Campaign 2008 Make Personal contacts in September and October Past donors and New prospects Upgrade their gift Multiply their gift by pledging a similar amount for January payment. Volunteers 12

13. Campaign 2008 Allow payroll deduction for the Community Fund Make an in-house educational appeal Consider matching at some rate the donations of their employees. Businesses 13

14. Campaign 2008 Commitment Volunteer & Staff Involvement Prospect Contacts Kickoff & Report Meetings One and Only One Fall Event Partner Agencies ? Boys & Girls Club ? Mustard Seed Mustard Seed Mustard Seed Senior Center ? Caregiver Companion Scouting ? ? Red Cross Salvation Army ? Habitat for Humanity 14

15. Campaign 2008 Fall Event Between September 1 and November 30 Public Educational and Fundraising program Agency keeps the “price of admission” Promotes the Community Fund in all promotional materials Includes the Other Agencies with Displays of their literature and activities Community Fund brochures and response forms distributed Partner Agencies 15

16. Campaign 2008 Fall Events Partner Agencies August 24 • Ducky Day in Tipton Park September 1 Labor Day 4-5-6 Pork Festival October November Senior Center Caregiver Companion Boys & Girls Club Habitat Red Cross Salvation Army Mustard Seed Garage Sale House # 7 Evening of Praise 16

17. Discussion Questions Comments Suggestions Goal Kickoff Involvement

18. Next Step Make a personally significant investment of Time Talent & Treasure in the United Community Fund and encourage others to do the same.

19. Thank You for Your Involvement2! Name Address City/Zip Daytime Phone Evening/Wknd Email Company Position Agency Involvements: Name Address City/Zip Daytime Phone Evening/Wknd Email Company Position Agency Involvements: