LIVE UNITED. GIVE UNITED.
2010 UNITED WAY COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
MORE THAN 54,000 INDIVIDUALS AND 700 LOCAL WORKPLACES LIVED UNITED This year, the 2010 United Way Community Campaign raised an outstanding $25,051,513 and was chaired by Andy Bessette, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of The Travelers Companies Inc. The annual campaign raises the resources to provide the building blocks of a good life for everyone: a quality education that leads to a stable job, income that can support a family, and good health, including a safety net of services across the 40 towns of central and northeastern Connecticut. The United Way Community Campaign is a joint effort of United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut and Community Health Charities of New England. The campaign is the largest annual health and human service fund-raising effort in Connecticut and the second largest in New England. Contributions made through the United Way Community Campaign to United Way Community Investment are invested in health and human services programs across a 40-town service area. (See page 14.) Local businesses such as OKAY Industries Inc. went all out to raise dollars with a variety of creative special events.
At left: Andy Bessette (far left), campaign chair, revealed the 2010 campaign results to a crowd of nearly 600 volunteers including union, corporate and community leaders at a celebration luncheon on November 30 at the Pratt & Whitney Hangar in East Hartford. A list of the 2010 Campaign Cabinet and Loaned Executives appears on page 18.
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