United Way Kicks Off Campaign
The United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. held its kick off breakfast on Friday, September 16, 2016 at the Butcher Block-Adirondack Room in Plattsburgh. A record crowd attended with supporters and partners being represented from throughout the three county region. John Bernardi, Executive Director/CEO said, “This crowd is representative of the incredible generosity and caring nature of our north country community”.
The campaign video was debuted and drew applause from approximately 200 attendees who represented supporters, pacesetters, community partners, elected officials, board members and volunteers. Amy L. Kretser, this year’s campaign chair, spoke on how the United Way of the Adirondack Region has touched the lives of people in the community, including her family and the commitment she has on making the $725,000 goal set this year.
The guest speaker this year was John Zurlo, County Clerk, Clinton County Government. He spoke of how the United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. and its partner agencies have touched him personally and highlighted services United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. and its partner agencies offers the Adirondack Region. Kathy Snow, Director of Development and Marion Daniels, Director of Finance then announced the pacesetter results (enclosed). Pacesetters are businesses and organizations that conduct their campaign before the kick off. They concluded with an announcement that with all of the pacesetter results in, the campaign was at 23.6% of the goal. The campaign runs until February 10, 2017.
The 44 partner agencies of the United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. collectively served 80,000 people in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties last year. Our mission is “To be a leader in community partnership building and to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.”
PACESETTERS – 2017 UNITED WAY GOAL: $725,000
United Way of the Adirondack Region,Inc. 9/16/16 23.6%
COMPANY / ORGANIZATION TOTAL
(OR) INDIVIDUALS PLEDGE
Abbott, Frenyea & Russell, CPA’s 100% Participation 2,638.00
Architectural & Engineering Design Associates (AEDA) 1,000.00
Behavioral Health Services North 7,515.00
Booth, Alan & Jenny 3,750.00
Brown Funeral Home 500.00
Champlain National Bank 15,000.00
Child Care Coordinating Council NC 4,020.00
Donlan & Barcomb 1,000.00
ETS, Inc. 100% Participation 5,700.00
Eye Care for the Adirondacks Partial 5,300.00
Fesette Realty, LLC 1,000.00
FirstView Eye Care (Drs’. Paepke & Staff) 1,000.00
Georgia Pacific Partial 25,000.00
Key Bank Partial 5,000.00
Landrock E & S Consulting (Bruce & Kathleen Gray) 1,000.00
Martindale Keysor & Co, PLLC 750.00
Murnane Building Contractors Partial 2,000.00
NBT Bank Partial 5,994.00
Niles & Bracy, Attnys. 1,000.00
Nine Platt Hospitality Group 16,558.00
Northeast Group Partial 9,000.00
Northern Adirondack Central School Partial 750.00
Northern Insuring Agency 13,500.60
Plattsburgh City School District Partial 5,900.00
Plattsburgh Ford Partial 2,000.00
PrimeLink Partial 250.00
State Farm Insurance/J. Kerley 600.00
United Way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. 100% Participation 1,100.00
UPS – SCS, Champlain Partial 3,252.00
UPS – Ground, Banker Rd. Partial 12,922.00
+ Miscellaneous (Individuals & Organizations) Additional 15,993.65
TOTAL – PACESETTERS: 170,993.25
Posted: September 16th, 2016 under General News.