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 College Sets
Sights on United Way Goal
The United Way of Tompkins County is once
again looking to Ithaca College employees to help support its
annual fundraising campaign. Using the theme, "Everyday
Heroes, Heroes Everyday...The United Way," the campaign
hopes to raise a total of $1.6 million this year to assist 29
local agencies and 10 community council programs.
The effort will be kicked off on Wednesday,
September 16, with a "Day of Caring," as over 130 volunteers
from throughout the county join in a number of service projects.
Ithaca College president Peggy R. Williams, whose inauguration
last spring included a similar "Day of Service" by
members of the campus community, has been invited to address
the volunteers as they begin their work at 10:00 a.m. at Stewart
Park.
Ithaca College United Way campaign cochairs
John Galt and Peg Adams are confident that employees will be
up to the challenge of meeting this year's $61,000 campus goal.
"Last year we came very close --- 98.4 percent ---
to meeting our goal, so it's clear we can do it this year,"
Galt and Adams wrote in a letter to the College community. "The
$61,000 that we raise will mean a lot to those of us the United
Way helps: our colleagues, friends, neighbors, and their families."
Ithaca College faculty, staff, and students
have long been involved in volunteering with both the United
Way and the agencies it serves, including Challenge Industries,
the Human Services Coalition, Ithaca Rape Crisis, the American
Red Cross, the Southside Community Center, and the Girl Scouts
and Boy Scouts of America. The president of the United Way Board
of Directors is Richard Schissel, associate professor of speech-language
pathology and audiology.
Donor cards will be sent to all employees
at the end of September and can be mailed directly back to Karen
McGavin in the Office of the Treasurer, Job Hall. Galt and Adams
note that payroll deduction is available; donors may also direct
their contribution to one or more specific agencies, or exclude
an agency from receiving their contribution. A drawing for a
$100 Wegmans gift certificate will be held from among the pledge
cards returned by Friday, October 30. The College's United Way
campaign will officially end on November 21. |
