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Success Story
“Jane” became interested in being a Big Sister after a presentation at her corporate office.  She had raised two children of her own who were now both in college and married.  She thought of the years when she was actively raising them and felt these were some of her favorite times.  She was now missing the presence of children in her life.  Jane decided to become a Big Sister in the Site-Based Mentoring Program with Big Brothers Big Sisters.  In this progr
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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.