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Ambassador Training

Ambassador Training. (Add date of training here). Agenda. Our Mission Change Starts Here Honda Match Challenge Steps to Successful Canvassing Other Tidbits!. United Way Greater Simcoe County. Our Mission To improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and

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Ambassador Training

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  1. Ambassador Training (Add date of training here)

  2. Agenda • Our Mission • Change Starts Here • Honda Match Challenge • Steps to Successful Canvassing • Other Tidbits!

  3. United Way Greater Simcoe County Our Mission To improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action.

  4. Change starts here. United Way provides funding to local agencies in our community by focussing on 3 priority areas: • Moving people from poverty to possibility • Building strong communities • Enabling all that kids can be

  5. Back for the 3rd and final year and the easiest way to grow your campaign!

  6. Honda of Canada Mfg. Leadership Challenge Here’s how: • Each 1st time donation of $1,000 or more to UWGSC will be matched $ for $ • Increase a gift to a $1,000 this year and that $1,000 is matched $ for $ • Any existing leadership gift that is increased by 10% or more this year will have that increase matched by Honda too! (HCM will match up to $70K)

  7. Steps to Canvassing Success!(there’s only 3!) 1. PREPARE 2. MEET/ASK 3. 100% FOLLOW UP

  8. 1. PREPARE • Learn about United Way • Brochures • Website • Employee Campaign Coordinator • Agency Tour • United Way Staff Partner • Learn about your own workplace campaign • What did you raise in 2013? • What was your participation rate? • What are the strategies for 2014? • Any Special Events?

  9. Your 2013 Campaign Results • Employee Giving: $ • Special Events: $ • Total donations raised: #of Employees: # of Donors: Average Gift $ Participation Rate: %

  10. 2014 STRATEGIES • 100% face to face canvassing (ask everyone!) • Promote Payroll Deduction • Promote UWGSC Community Fund • Promote Honda Match • Promote ‘Every Day Hero’

  11. 1. PREPARE • Make your own gift first! • If possible, set a time and place to meet with each prospective donor • Build your confidence • Set your expectations high!

  12. 1. PREPARE “PEOPLE GIVE TO PEOPLE” (Canvass in person – not over the phone or by email) • Set the tone. • Try to be relaxed as possible • Thank your colleague(s) for meeting with you • Explain that you are volunteering to help with the campaign and explain how the donor can participate • Give them a copy of the brochure

  13. 1. PREPARE • Make your case. • Share information about United Way • Explain your personal reasons for supporting the campaign • Discuss a certain agency that you are familiar with or have visited • Be honest and open

  14. 2. MEET/ASK • Answer questions • Don’t guess • Find out & follow up • If they are busy – come back later • If a prospective donor is not available – leave a brochure for them • Please do not leave a gift form on an empty desk!

  15. 2. MEET/ASK The # 1 REASON PEOPLE DO NOT GIVE IS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ASKED!

  16. 2. MEET/ASK • YOUR MISSION! • To personally ASK your colleagues to support • the campaign by making a donation!

  17. SAY THANK YOU! Even if they haven’t made a donation thank them for taking the time to meet with you

  18. 3. 100% FOLLOW-UP • Make your call backs as arranged • Re-canvas – go back to see the people you missed the first time around • Just because they were not there does not mean they won’t give!

  19. OTHER TIDBITS • Completed pledge forms are to be returned to your ECC as quickly as possible • Upon completion of all your canvassing please return all pledge forms – even the blank ones!

  20. On behalf of United Way and our community THANK YOU!!

  21. Your United Way Staff Partner:Paulina RobertsonDirector Resource DevelopmentUnited Way Greater Simcoe County 705-726-2301 x 2023probertson@unitedwaygsc.cawww.UnitedWayGSC.ca

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