United Way

The United Way of Greater Toronto supports more than 250 agencies across the city. Skills for Change has been a United Way member agency since 1993. We have run successful employee campaigns each fall, through special events, employee payroll deductions and United Way annual events.

United Way Campaign 2007

Although the United Way Campaign officially starts on September 6th with the United Way Rally in Dundas Square, the preparation and planning at Skill for Change started in mid August.

Skills for Change staff and board members are striving to raise $15,000 for the year 2007.

This year Kanchan Lakhotia from the Engineering Your Future program and Golnaz Fatemi of Teach in Ontario have volunteered to be the Co-chairs for the campaign.

The members of the Fundraising Committee are Sonal Singh, Janka Farkasova, Juan Segura, Farnaz Esfahanian, Marie Soulodre, Natasha Heckley, Priya Sivalingam, Arlene Willis and Nicoleta Verdes.

The activities and events that have been planned for this years fundraising include:
 

Payroll Deduction	SfC Bake Sales
Days of Caring	50/50 monthly draw
Casino Rama Trip	Movies Lunches
CN Tower Climb	Casual Day
Flea Market	50/50 Entrepreneurial Day
Raffle by LINC	Book and Movie Rentals
Managers’ Lunch	Wrap Up

Without you there is no way. Your support helps United Way help others.

Please support this campaign by donating/purchasing items for the flea market, books/CD/DVD rental, pledging for CN Tower climbers or climbing with SfC staff members.

For information, please contact Kanchan at 416-658-3101, ext. 211 or Golnaz at ext. 260


Past Campaigns

Last updated 12/24/2007