Category: United Way of Salt Lake

by Stephanie Rokich Community Volunteer Engagement Coordinator This is the fifth post in the Community Volunteer Engagement Blog Series. In this series, we’ve talked about why people choose to volunteer, […]

by Allison Temnick Community Investment Advisor This year, it has been my joy and privilege to help Questar coordinate its corporate giving campaign. If you do not already know, Questar […]

by Stephanie Rokich Community Volunteer Engagement Coordinator The first time I participated in a Sub4Santa program was in high school. Each grade level sponsored a group of families who didn’t […]

by Zenia Frendt Leadership Giving Director, Women’s Leadership Council Why is it important to empower women? Study after study has shown that when women do better, everyone does better. A […]

by McCall Pitcher Community Investment Advisor The ever-wise Taylor Swift once sang, “Nothing safe is worth the drive.” It’s been just over a month since I started my first job […]

by Danielle Lankford Guadalupe School Communications Specialist  The 2015-2016 school years is going to be amazing for Guadalupe School – we can just feel it. There’s something special about celebrating […]

by Sean Strickland Community School Director, Woodrow Wilson Elementary  As a child, parent teacher conferences were my most stressful time of the year. The feeling of dread that surrounded report […]

by Greg McDonald Regional Coordinator of Earn It. Keep It. Save It. I have worked for the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program as a volunteer and now coordinator for […]

by Lauren Birge Kearns Junior High Community School Director At the end of August, everyone at Kearns Junior was eagerly awaiting the release of the Student Assessment of Growth and […]

by James Brown Community Investment Advisor For CHG HealthCare Services, “Putting People First” is not just a motto; it’s a way of life. Every year, CHG Healthcare hosts a “United […]

by Bill Crim President and CEO Yesterday, United Way of Salt Lake announced that both the preschool intervention and the financing mechanism for the country’s first “Pay for Success” transaction […]

by Sophie Siebach Glover James E. Moss Elementary Community School Director  In May of this year, James E. Moss Elementary School became a United Way Community School. With the addition […]

by Bill Crim President and CEO This week, Harvard Business School released a new report, Business Aligning for Students: The Promise of Collective Impact. Over a year in the making, […]

by Mike Watts Community Investment Advisor Cirris Systems – a small company filled with big hearts, cables, wires, and toast. Unless you are a cable testing enthusiast, you may not […]

by Maribel Rodriguez Granger Elementary Community School Director On this year’s Day of Caring , over 100 volunteers from three different companies including Robert W. Baird, Regence BlueCross BlueShield, and […]