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Don’t have a workplace campaign? Start one! Challenge your colleagues to join in the effort and give one day’s pay!

Suggested Steps for Organizing a Workplace Campaign


	1.	Establish a team of people at your firm or office who are passionate about the issues and who will help organize the campaign within your organization. Often by simply sending an email to your colleagues, you will find a team of people interested in helping. In your email be sure to provide the website link.

	2.	Once you’ve got a team, provide the name and contact information of a designated contact person to coordinator@giveaday.ca.

	3.	Develop a communication plan to get more people involved and raise awareness. Visit the Give a Day toolkit for posters, brochures, donor post cards, documentary DVDs, website tools - all available for your use. Use the toolkit to set-up an internal site about Give a Day.

	4.	Set up one or more internal events to tell the story. A coffee/muffin drop-in or a pizza lunch are excellent ways to inform people of the campaign and the issues. We will assist you in arranging a special speaker or provide you with a short documentary DVD that passionately sets out the issues. To see what some other workplaces are doing – check out our blog or follow us on Twitter. Please share what you are doing as well - be a part of the conversation!

	5.	Challenge your colleagues to respond by giving one day’s pay (for World AIDS Day, December 1st) and designating their donation to either (or both) of our two trusted recipients, Dignitas International and the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

	6.	Follow-up with an email or post-card to all possible contributors. Give instructions about how to donate.

	7.	Designate members of your firm or office to help collect donations. See below “How to Collect Donations for a Workplace Campaign”. Consider if the same individuals involved in collecting donations for the United Way would play a similar role for this campaign. Donations can also be made directly on-line, but it is helpful if you also keep an internal tally.

	8.	In the days leading up to December 1st – World AIDS Day, get your most ambitious supporters to chat with their peers and encourage participation with December 1 as a deadline.

	9.	Consider setting up an information desk in your reception area or staff lounge on November 30. Advertise this location as a resource site and a place where donations may be collected in advance of World AIDS Day.

	10.	Tally and celebrate! Total your donations and let us know how you did at feedback@giveaday.ca then celebrate your participation in “Give a Day to World AIDS”! We would love to see pictures of your celebration if you would like to share them, so that we can post them on our website or Facebook page.

How to Collect Donations in a Workplace Campaign

One of the beauties of Give a Day to World AIDS is its simplicity! The concept is: Give one day’s income on World AIDS Day an organization that will use the money well in the fight against AIDS. Exactly how you do that may vary from place to place. Some businesses may be able to offer a payroll deduction.

Here are some suggestions based on what has worked well so far…


		Designate one or two people at your workplace to collect and direct donations.

		Encourage colleagues to estimate for themselves approximately what one day’s income would be. Challenge them to donate this amount to make a difference in the AIDS pandemic. Donations to recipient organizations may be made in one of two ways. Use the information below to inform your colleagues about how you would like their donation to be made.

By cheque:


		make your cheque payable to Dignitas International or Stephen Lewis Foundation.

		place the cheque in an envelope which can be given to the workplace coordinator.

		you may choose to set up a booth in your entrance lobby or staff lounge on December 1 as a place where donations may be collected on World AIDS Day.

		colleagues may choose to mail a donation directly to the organization with a note explaining that it is part of the Give a Day campaign at your workplace.

Addresses are as follows:

Dignitas International
2 Adelaide Street West, Suite 200
Toronto, ON M5H 1L6
Canada

Stephen Lewis Foundation
260 Spadina Avenue Suite 501
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2E4
Canada

2. By internet:

Offer your colleagues the opportunity to make a credit card donation on line.

Go to:

Please Indicate your workplace name in the drop down menus.

Individual donations will remain anonymous, but this will allow us to tally the total amount raised each year through various Give a Day initiatives.

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