At United Way/Centraide Ottawa, we offer a training program for workplaces interested in running a workplace campaign.

Depending upon the size and nature of your workplace, you may need to fill some or all of the following roles:

• Employee Campaign Coordinator to lead and manage the campaign
• Last Year’s Coordinator to offer valuable advice
• Deputy Employee Campaign Coordinator to act in the absence of the Employee Campaign Coordinator, attend meetings, take on key assignments and gather information that will be helpful when he/she leads next year’s campaign
• Labour Chair to obtain the endorsement of local unions, help with fundraising strategies that appeal to labour, select union canvassers and speak to groups that have union members
• Training Chair to arrange training for your canvassers (we will help you with this)
• Public Relations Chair to be responsible for advertising public events and for raising the campaign’s visibility
• Finance Chair to ensure that an appropriate financial system is in place, collect donations from your canvassers and remit donations to United Way/Centraide
• Retiree Coordinator to contact and solicit retired employees
• Special Events Chair to coordinate the special events that will supplement your fundraising efforts
• Site Chair (representation from each site, department or floor of your workplace)

Contact: Chantal Charbonneau