{"id":12116,"date":"2007-11-13T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/13\/charity-begins-at-the-office.html"},"modified":"2007-11-13T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:13:13","slug":"charity_begins_at_the_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/13\/charity_begins_at_the_off.html","title":{"rendered":"Charity begins at the office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, here’s the normal November schtick.  A couple of hapless folks get hornswoggled into running the United Way<\/a> campaign drive for the office.  They set up a week of lunchtime meetings — come eat something we provide and listen to stories \/ videos \/ PPTs of Important and Serious and Socially Responsible Things the United Way does.  Pick up your forms (or get the web address), turn in your pledge.  Read e-mails about How All Terribly Important it is. Get e-mails from your manager about the same.  Watch the levels on one or more thermometer posters slowly rise.  Go back on autopilot. <\/p>\n

I’ve seen this for the last twenty years.<\/p>\n

This year, though … wow.<\/p>\n

No thermometers.  A minimum of grim-n-gritty-n-Socially-Responsible lecturing.  People know the routine.   Instead, we had a (donate to enter) putt-putt tournament in the building.  A Find the Ceramic Pig contest (for some nice gift cards) each day.  UW fliers with word searches on them above the urinals.  Pay-by-the-inch to cut off a slice of your manager’s tie. Amusing e-mails you actually want to read. <\/p>\n

Good stuff.  Entertaining stuff.  Stuff that makes you want to actually do something in the campaign, or at least keeps you from feeling like it’s the Same-Ol’ Same-Ol’.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how the fund-raising will go — I’ll let you know — but it’s made it all a lot <\/em>nicer and more enjoyable than any such campaign I’ve been in to date.<\/p>\n

Kudos.<\/p>\n

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