The Early Bird Gets the Prize

Campus United Way campaign is at 80 per cent of goal

About 120 early bird donors to the campus United Way campaign are eating home-baked goodies or enjoying other prizes won in the United Way incentive draws. Their donations have boosted the United Way campaign total to more than $260,000. That's 80 per cent of the $325,000 goal, with three weeks to go in the annual campus fundraising drive.

If your pledge form is still waiting to be filled in, you can still qualify for the grand prize to be drawn Dec. 2. Goliger's Travel has donated a theatre weekend package that includes tickets for two to a Stage West production in Mississauga, overnight accommodation, dinner and breakfast. All pledge-form contributors will be eligible to win. Pledge forms are available on the United Way campaign website (access from the University's home page).

The website also lists all the early bird winners and provides information about the 85 local programs that your United Way gift helps support. United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington is the largest annual community fundraising organization in the county. Forty-five social service agencies depend on United Way funds to keep their doors open, and the U of G campaign contributes almost 15 per cent of total United Way revenue.

In addition to returning your pledge form, you can support the United Way by taking advantage of upcoming campus raffles and events: