Make an Impact in Honor of Your Mom This Mother’s Day

Is your United Way offering opportunities for people to give outside of campaign? Are you giving your donors and community members the opportunity to make an impact on a specific issue?

United Way of Pickens County (Easley, SC) encouraged people in their community to give the gift of reading this Mother’s Day with their Women United Camp iRock Honor Card Program. By making a $25 donation to Camp iRock, you could send a Mother’s Day card to your mom, letting her know you made a gift in her honor.

In addition to the Mother’s Day card explaining that you gave the gift of reading to a child in honor of your mom, it also explained Camp iRock, which is United Way of Pickens County’s summer program for struggling readers in rising 1st through 4th grades that helps students improve their reading skills over the summer. Each Mother’s Day card donation went toward funding a child to attend Camp iRock.

United Way of Pickens County promoted this opportunity to give and make an impact in honor of your mom on their website and social media.

This is a great example of an opportunity for people to give outside of campaign and I love how United Way of Pickens County tied this opportunity to Mother’s Day. It also communicates the impact of donors’ contributions in a simple and powerful way – for only $25, both you and your mom will know you helped a child learn to read. Note that United Way of Pickens County highlighted one of their own programs rather than a partner agency’s program. In order to encourage donors and community members to give to your United Way, it is essential to communicate how your United Way is making a difference in the community, and how their donations will make an impact by giving to your United Way.

United Ways who have transformed to an issue focus find it easier to communicate their message, engage their donors and community members, diversify their resources, and maximize their impact. At Perspectives, we are the creators of the Issue-Focused Model and have helped successfully guide United Ways of all sizes to an issue focus. Click here for more information about an issue focus, or contact me for information about how we can guide your United Way in the transformation to an issue focus.

Happy Mother’s Day!

P.S. Check out my blog post from May 2016 to see what United Way of the Bay Area did last Mother’s Day.