Corporate giving boosts United Way of Greater Portland over its 2017 campaign goal
Courtesy / United Way of Greater Portland
WEX Inc.'s team joins with 2017 United Way of Greater Portland Campaign Chair John Chandler of BerryDunn (second from right). From left, the WEX members are Bary Spydell, Brigitte Emmons-Touchette, Jodi-ann Johnson and Hilary Rapkin (at far right).
United Way of Greater Portland achieved its third consecutive year of campaign growth, announcing that it anticipates $8,053,931 in 2017 pledges against a goal of $8.05 million.
“The generosity of our hundreds of corporate partners and over 12,500 donors is inspiring,” said John Chandler, 2017 campaign chair and managing principal of BerryDunn, in a press release.
“It reflects tremendous passion and dedication to building a thriving community,” he added. “We are grateful to everyone who made it possible.”
United Way’s annual campaign kicked off last September with a rally, food drive and canned-goods sculpture contest in Portland’s Monument Square. The event collected enough food for 16,428 meals and set a record for Cumberland County’s largest one-day food drive.
Gorham Savings Bank, Hannaford, L.L.Bean, MaineHealth, Maine Medical Center, MEMIC, Unum and WEX each loaned 10 employees to bolster United Way of Greater Portland’s capacity for nine weeks during the campaign. These loaned executives helped run workplace campaigns and informed others about United Way’s impact.
Anthem, Berry Dunn, MacPage, Preti Flaherty and Verrill Dana also sponsored this program.
Campaign highlights include:
- L.L.Bean, Unum, Hannaford, IDEXX, TD Bank, MaineHealth, WEX Inc., BerryDunn, Texas Instruments, Disability RMS Inc, Gorham Savings Bank, Baker Newman Noyes, Sappi North America, Martin’s Point Health Care, SIGCO, Inc., and Preti Flaherty LLP collectively contributed more than $4.8 million in corporate and employee giving.
- L.L.Bean alone raised more than $1.36 million for the community, with 35% of their employees donating to the campaign.
- The John T. Gorman Foundation, once again, doubled donor impact with a $150,000 matching grant for Leadership Giving.
- WEX, MEMIC, BerryDunn, Hannaford, and IDEXX saw impressive growth in giving.
- Women United, an affinity group of United Way — with a mission to inspire, educate, and engage women more deeply as positive change agents in support of the advancement of single mothers and their children in Greater Portland — raised over $125,000 from 76 households in its inaugural year.
- Brick and Beam Society, United Way’s emerging leaders group, saw its membership swell to over 50 households.
There are 75 household members in the Tocqueville Society, United Way’s highest giving level for contributions of $10,000 or more. This group collectively contributed more than $1.3 million.
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