2012 Campaign Overview

I want to thank everyone who participated and donated in this year’s Charitable Contributions Campaign.  I am proud to say that this year we had 48% of Commerce employees who participated. This was one percent increase from last year. Together we collected $13,104.53 to help some great local and national charities.

Huge congratulations go to Division of Corporations where every single employee participated in the campaign! They celebrated today with cookies and had a special drawing for prizes. Barbara Berg won a gift basket and David Kester won a cooler.

David

Barbara

Participation percentages for all divisions:

1. Corporations 100%

2. Public Utilities 76%

3. Securities 71%

4. Administration/Property Rights Ombudsman 69%

5. Office of Consumer Services 50%

6. Real Estate 31%

7. Consumer Protection 29%

8. DOPL 21%

Thank you also to all the wonderful Charity Campaign Committee members:

Julie Price, Maria Martinez, Erika Tedder, Liz Blaylock, Marv Everett, Tracy Naff, Dane Ishihara, Bela Vastag, Valeri Stewart, and Karen Wicker. Great job!

Participation

2011 Campaign participation is in blue

2012 Campaign participation is in organge

This years total for the Charitable Contributions Campaign was $13,104.53. Last year we collected $15404.78.

In 2012 Campaign 48% of the Commerce Employee participated.
In 2011 Campaign we had 47% participation.

Prize Winners

We had some more prize winners last week. Congratulations and thanks for your donation!

 

 

 

Bowen Call from DOPL

 

Tiffeni Wall from Real Estate

Sally Stewart from DOPL

David Furlong from Consumer Protection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations also to Sheila Johnson in Administration who was the only one to get all correct answers in our Charity Quiz.

More Winners

Today is the last day to contribute to the Utah State Employees Charitable Fund Drive. Please make your donation NOW if you have not done so already. If you are having any problems with the online entry you can fill out the pledge form that can be found online and give it to your division coordinator or Valeri Stewart (Corporations) or Mia Larson (Admin). You can also bring us your cash or check donation and we'll make sure that the money goes toward your selected charity.

 

Please go to http://www.usecf.state.ut.us/ and click on "Pledge Online Now".

 

We are going to have another drawing later today for those who have donated and will also reward the Division with the largest participation percentage with a special prize so get your entries in!

 

This morning we had a drawing for beautiful fall gift baskets full of goodies. The winners are:

Douglas Wheelwright from DPU and Mary Price from Corporations

 

 

Last Week!

To kick off the last week of the Campaign we had another drawing. Lucky winners are Kathy Berg and Umu Manatau from Corporations and April Ellis from DOPL. They won Girl Scout cookies!

If you have not yet made your donation, please do it NOW. Go to http://www.usecf.state.ut.us/ to make your pledge.

Congratulations to the winners!

April

Kathy

Umu

MORE WINNERS

We have two more winners this week. Karen McMullin from Securities won a beautiful set of knives donated by the Utah Food Bank.

Robyn Barkdull from DOPL won the gift basket with donations from United Way, The Happy Factory, Utah Girl Scouts and Utah Open Lands.

The campaign ends next Friday, November 4th, so don't miss your chance to be eligible for the next drawing. The sooner you donate, the better your chance of winning a prize. More importantly, don't miss your chance to help Utah's charities bolster communities throughout our great state. It's the kindness exhibited by people like you who make Utah such a great place to live

To donate visit http://www.usecf.state.ut.us/ From there, sign in and select from a vast list of charitable organizations. You can choose to either have your donation automatically deducted from your paychecks, or you can make a one-time pledge and send a check to our department coordinators; Mia Larsen, Admin or Valeri Stewart, Corporations.

FOURTH STREET CLINIC

Fourth Street Clinic was founded in 1988 by Dr. Allan Ainsworth inside a cleaned out office across the street from Utah's largest emergency shelter. The triage clinic was staffed with one part-time nurse who relied heavily on hospitals for patient treatments.

Today, with a staff of 45 and a volunteer network of more than 200, Fourth Street Clinic is a comprehensive health care home that serves 6,500 homeless men, women and children with 30,000 primary care, behavioral health and specialty care visits. Fourth Street Clinic dispenses 40,000 medications annually.

By increasing homeless Utahns access to primary care, Fourth Street Clinic is a major partner in ending homelessness, promoting community health, and achieving across-the-board health care savings. For many patients, the clinic is their first and only chance at proper diagnosis and treatment. Good physical and mental health is the foundation for transitioning back into permanent housing. Many chronically homeless Utahns ignore their health problems for decades; many are also alcoholics which, coupled with street living, leaves their bodies compromised. Simple problems often turn into health crises and can cost thousands of dollars if they go untreated.

For more information visit http://www.fourthstreetclinic.org/