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G I V I N G G U I D E 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com November 22, 2016 • Hartford Business Journal 45 ABOUT US Year established: 1924 Annual revenues: $23,109,328 (most recent fiscal year) Total number of employees: 48 GEOGRAPHIC SERVICE AREA(S) 40-town region including: Andover; Ashford; Avon; Berlin; Bloomfield; Bolton; Canton; Chaplin; Columbia; Coventry; East Hartford; East Windsor; Ellington; Enfield; Farmington; Glastonbury; Hampton; Hartford; Hebron; Lebanon; Manchester; Mansfield/ Storrs; Marlborough; New Britain; Newington; Rocky Hill; Scotland; Simsbury; Somers; South Windsor; Stafford; Suffield; Tolland; Vernon; West Hartford; Wethersfield; Willington; Windham/Willimantic; Windsor; and Windsor Locks. TOP FUNDING SOURCES Employee workplace giving: 76% Corporate gifts: 22% Individuals outside of the workplace: 2% GOALS By working together, we provide opportunities for individual and community success. Our shared priorities are to: • Prepare children and youth for academic success with a focus on early-childhood education, grade-level reading and transition to high school. • Connect people with good jobs and opportunities to learn how to save and grow their money. • Provide individuals and families with immediate emergency assistance, such as food and shelter. Why Does This Matter? In our region, more than 1 in 4 households have earnings above the Federal Poverty Level but below a basic cost-of-living threshold. Despite working hard, these households struggle to make ends meet. United Way calls this demographic ALICE, an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. United Way invests in programs and initiatives that serve ALICE households throughout our region. Through gifts to United Way Community Investment, we help connect ALICE families with tools to help them do more than make ends meet, including access to affordable childcare, job training in industries providing family- sustaining wages, and earned tax credits. During the 2016 tax season alone, United Way helped return more than $29 million in federal credits and refunds to more than 11,000 working households in our community. FUNDRAISING EVENTS/OPPORTUNITIES United Way's Campaign provides members of our community an annual opportunity to help raise critical resources that benefit local children and families. Additionally, our United Way provides opportunities to improve community conditions with events throughout the year. Our most popular event, United Way Women's Leadership Council's Power of the Purse Luncheon and Silent Auction, raises funds to help women and families become financially secure. United Way Emerging Leaders Society's Spin for Kids spin-a-thon and Boogie for Books dance-a-thon raise money to support programs and initiatives helping children and youth succeed in school. We encourage community members to join us in fun and unique ways to help make a difference. For more information, visit UnitedWayInc.org/Events. GIVING OPPORTUNITIES • Sponsor a United Way Campaign in your workplace. • Make a gift online at UnitedWayInc.org/Donate. • Increase your annual gift by $25, $250 or 25 percent in honor of the 25th anniversary of United Way's flagship volunteer mobilization initiative, United Way Year of Caring. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES In the past year, United Way mobilized more than 4,000 volunteers to improve the lives of children and families in our community. You can: • Provide one-on-one budget coaching to help individuals reorganize finances and save for the future. • Prepare taxes for lower-to-moderate wage earning families to ensure they receive credits and refunds they have earned. • Provide one-on-one assistance to children through our United Way Readers program to help children strengthen their reading skills. • Build literacy kits to help make reading more engaging for young learners while helping them build home libraries. Visit UnitedWayInc.org/Volunteer Chair, 2016 United Way Campaign Greg M. Barats* The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company Treasurer Donald Allan, Jr.* Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Michael J. Auseré Eversource Energy Peggy Buchanan* Connecticut AFL-CIO Chair, United Way of North Central Connecticut Advisory Board Steven J. Casey Eversource Energy Julio A. Concepcion MetroHartford Alliance Chair, Windham Region United Way Advisory Board Mario D. Conjura People's United Bank Eric D. Daniels Robinson + Cole LLP Chair, United Way of New Britain and Berlin Advisory Board William F. Dowling Bill Dowling Sports Paul A. Duff UTC Aerospace Systems, IAM Local 743 Dr. Derek A. Franklin Clinical & Forensic Consultants Michael Goldbas Deloitte & Touche LLP Jeffrey L. Hubbard KeyBank Shawn J. Maynard* Windham Community Memorial Hospital Colleen A. McGuire Silver Fern Healthcare, LLC Patricia H. Meiser Meiser Sports Consulting Natalie B. Morris* United Technologies Corporation James P. O'Meara* Webster Bank Chair, United Way Women's Leadership Council Noreen Randazzo Ex-Officio, Former Board Chair Wayne S. Rawlins, M.D., M.B.A.* ConnectiCare, Inc. Timothy Restall, Jr. Hartford Yard Goats Cynthia Ryan* Cigna Corporation Lynn Ryan Conning Chair, United Way Emerging Leaders Society Ashley M. Sanyal Cigna Corporation Susan Tully NBC Universal, WVIT Lyn G. Walker* Shipman & Goodwin LLP Jennifer L. White Groton, Connecticut * Denotes membership on Executive Committee President and CEO Paula S. Gilberto Chairman Greg C. Toczydlowski* Travelers United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut 30 Laurel Street, Hartford, CT 06106 | 860-493-6800 UnitedWayInc.org OUR MISSION: United Way's mission is to engage and bring together people and resources committed to the well-being of children and families in our community. BOARD OF DIRECTORS