Starting off with a Boom

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18 September 2015

Hundreds of volunteers from across the Lower Mainland helped kick off our 2015 Campaign!

As sure as kids go back to school, the leaves turn red and gold, and the rain returns, every fall hundreds of enthusiastic volunteers help raise awareness and funds for United Way. United Way’s mission is to build strong communities, to move people from poverty to possibility and to help kids be all that they can be. And we’re pretty good at it. But we can’t do it alone. Our volunteers are the glue that holds our community-building enterprise together. It’s a unique model: the reliance on volunteers helps us keep our administrative and fundraising costs low at only 14%. This morning, hundreds of volunteers got revved up with some training tips, inspirational words from guest speaker Colin Easton of the Stranger Project, and rocked the room with a group guitar-hero style performance on “boom whackers.” The price of admission was a non-perishable food item. A couple of hundred pounds of food was donated to Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, funded in part by United Way. Last year, thanks in part to the hard work of our volunteers, we raised $26.5 million to be invested back in the community. In Canada, United Way is the second largest funder of social services after government. So here’s to our volunteers! Thank you! None of the work we do would be possible without you. Special thanks to the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and members of Unifor Local 4275 for hosting the breakfast. If you want to learn more about what United Way does, read our Annual Report. To view the taped live recording on YouTube, click here. To view pictures of the event scroll below or click here.

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