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Success Story
Kelly became a participant in the Healthy Families program when a friend referred her shortly after the arrival of her first child. She did not fit the normal characteristics that identified families most in need. She was married, had a college education, stable income, and a beautiful home.  However, she had never seen herself as a mother and had little knowledge of child development or how to nurture a child. She was reading books on the subject but was struggling with bonding with her
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Campaign Awards

A special thank you goes out to all of the organizations that supported us during the 2009 campaign!  In thanks, we have developed recognition pieces for the organizations whose generous contributions exceeded certain community averages. 

 

Awards are based on the following:

 

Albert F. Beck Award – recognizes the participating law firm who contributed the highest gift within the areas of less than 10 employees, 10-30 employees and 30 or more employees.

 

Corporate Century Award - recognizes corporations, employing four or more people, where the corporate gift per capita gift is within the top 25% of all corporate gifts and the current gift is an increase over their previous gift.

 

Employee Excellence Award - recognizes group contributions in which the employee per capita gift exceeds $100.00 and the company participation rate is 50% or higher.

 

Leaderboard Award - recognizes organizations with a combined corporate and employee giving total of $25,000 or more. 

Pacesetter Award - recognizes those organizations that run campaigns during the August/September timeframe and strive for at least a 5% increase over last year's generous giving.

Top Coordinator or Small Coordinator Teams Award - recognizes workplace coordinators or small coordinator teams that were specifically chosen to represent campaigns with a high degree of planning, implementing and executing that result in strong participation and giving.