Host UCA
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Fill out and send THIS FORM to host the United Co-op Appeal workplace giving campaign!
How do you start a United Co-op Appeal campaign?
-Work with CDF staff to plan your campaign.
-Hold a "kick-off" event within your organization.
-Process the payroll deduction forms, and send the results to CDF.
If you would like to sign up as a host or want us to contact someone within your organization to talk about hosting a campaign, email tbuen@cdf.coop now.
Download here the 2008 UCA Host organization form for more information!
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
Why host the United Co-op Appeal?
• UCA gives your employees the satisfaction of helping people through a workplace donation.
There are 18 recipient organizations in the 2009 UCA campaign that are engaged in many forms of cooperative development. Your employees could support work to improve the rural economy by bringing more cooperative businesses to rural America. They could support work in America’s cities to give people access to affordable housing and to help people make living wages in worker-owned cooperative businesses. Or, they could support work that creates cooperatives in developing nations around the world, generating income and raising the standard of living.
• UCA helps you broaden your employees’ understanding of cooperatives and engenders their pride in being part of the cooperative community.
Your employees have a good understanding of your business, the relationship you have with your members and the role your business plays in your community. UCA helps you broaden their perspective. UCA shows them that there are many different forms of cooperatives and that cooperatives exist in many different and innovative settings. UCA also helps them understand how cooperative principles are being used to give people more control in their lives and lets them see how the UCA organizations are finding cooperative solutions to many of our current national and international problems. This exposure to the cooperative development work of the UCA organizations should make your employees proud to be part of a cooperative community that is making a difference in so many peoples’ lives!
• UCA is compatible with other workplace giving programs that may support your local non-profit organizations.
Your decision to host the UCA campaign does not mean that you terminate any other workplace giving program that you may already support. There used to be reluctance to support any workplace giving program other than United Way. But today, many organizations combine several charitable giving programs, such as United Way, UCA and others, so that they can offer their employees more choices for their charitable contributions. There is evidence that combining several campaigns actually creates more interest and raises more funds for everyone! Organizations that host UCA as well as another campaign usually develop their own contribution forms that incorporate all of the organizations and all of the campaigns.
• UCA is a great investment! 100% of the UCA contribution goes to the recipient organization!
You will be able to tell your employees that every dollar of every UCA contribution is passed on to the UCA organizations they choose to support. CDF provides administrative support to the UCA campaign and receives a grant from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation to cover most of the administrative costs of the campaign.
• UCA is easy for you to administer.
Whether you are a small office or a large organization, you can participate in UCA! If you don’t have the resources to administer a payroll deduction system, it’s not a problem. Individuals can support UCA by writing checks which can then be sent to us for distribution to the recipient organizations. You tell us how many campaign booklets, UCA campaign posters and contribution forms you need and we will deliver them to you. You kick off the campaign (with a management letter and/or employee meeting) and your HR staff will handle the contribution forms and set up the payroll deduction. CDF manages the allocation of contributions to the recipient organizations after we receive periodic checks from your HR staff.
