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On Thursday, March 15th, the United Way of Meriden ...
March 20, 2007
On Thursday, March 15th, the United Way of Meriden and Wallingford thanked its supporters for their dedication and their involvement in the annual Community Campaign. The campaign this year is expected to raise more than $1 million, which will fund local social service agencies. The award ceremony was held at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. on Research Parkway. The United Way honored Cuno Inc. with the Outstanding Company Award for raising $91,500 for the campaign. In addition to em�ployee contributions and a corporate dona�tion, Cuno employees coordinated special fundraising events, including a 100-mile bike race. Honored for platinum level for donations between $50,000 and $90,000 were the Bris�tol- Myers Squibb Co., Ulbrich Stainless Steel & Special Metals and Webster Bank. Honored at the gold level were the Record-Journal Publishing Co., Pratt & Whit�ney employees, Northeast Utilities, Cytec In�dustries, Canberra Industries and AT&T. Their donations ranged from $25,000 to $49,999. More than 100 other companies and organ�izations were recognized in other donation brackets. The city of Meriden and town of Wallingford were rec�ognized at the silver level. The Meriden Fire Department was recognized as the largest contributing municipal depart�ment. Fire Chief James Trainor, who is on the United Way's board of directors, said he was able to generate interest among employees by having United Way staff members speak to the department. "I felt that maybe it's time to actually see someone from United Way," he said, "to put a face to the name." Trainor said it's the staff at the United Way "who are really the drivers" in the campaign. The United Way took time to honor numerous community volunteers. The organization named Yolia Morales a volunteer of the year for her work at the Spanish Community of Wallingford. Morales, a 15� year-old Wallingford resident, volunteered over the summer to tutor young children at SCOW. "I would go early in the morning to help out," she said. "Some of them looked up to us because we were older. It felt good." There are still a couple of months left on the campaign, said United Way Executive Director Jim Ieronimo. The or�ganization will begin discus�sions on how to allocate the money in the spring and funds will be distributed to agencies starting July. The United Way seeks input from its supporters and member agencies in deter�mining priorities, he said. "I felt that we needed to be the convener in our larger community around important issues," he said in his opening re�marks, "and I felt that those issues were really going to be the issues that you tell us and our agencies respond to." The United Way has identified "impact areas" which are in need of funding. They include the elderly population, families and those affected by emergencies, Ieronimo said. - Record Journal, May 16, 2007, gmoore@record-journal.com
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