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Our Campaign Cabinet Needs You
/in NewsYou are a leader in Central Alberta business. You care about local issues and successes. You understand the critical importance of business and corporate responsibility to a community and you are comfortable inviting others to join you. The United Way of Central Alberta’s Campaign Cabinet needs your expertise. Our yearly campaigns have raised tens of millions of dollars for area not-for-profit agencies since 1965. Much of these generously donated funds are generated through workplace campaigns at area businesses and […]
Be Consciously Kind
/in NewsPeople are starting to hope again now that vaccines are being administered in the province. Provincial campsites are booking up quickly as many people are optimistic enough to actually schedule vacations, at least within the province. Optimism springs from the glimmer of hope that COVID-19 will be under control and we will be able to […]
Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics; Period Promise Campaign Launching May 1
/in NewsThe COVID-19 pandemic has made affording menstrual products more difficult. Job losses mean that more people than ever are struggling to purchase the menstrual products they need. United Way’s Period Promise campaign, presented locally with our partners Tampax©, Always©, Grand & Toy, and the Soroptimist International of Central Alberta offers a solution. Central Albertans like you can tackle period poverty May […]
The Big Wait
/in NewsRemember how it felt finally saying goodbye to 2020? Everyone agreed that there had never been a worse year in living memory and how 2021 had to, by default, be better – ‘knock wood’. Here we sit now, the first two months of 2021 have passed, and we’re at the one-year anniversary of the pandemic. So far, 2021 has been a period […]
New Year, New Office.
/in NewsAfter the holiday season, people generally organize and put everything away. You may notice that as soon as Boxing Day ads finish on TV, they are replaced with ads for weight loss, house cleaning and organization. People are putting away their new gifts, throwing away things that are taking up too much space, and getting […]
Our Community Can’t Recover Without You
/in NewsWe’ve never had a year like this. ‘Multi-tasking’ took on a whole new meaning for us this year, as we’re sure it did for many of you as well. In March, we suddenly found ourselves creating space in our homes for ‘offices’, learning how not to bump colleagues off Zoom meetings, (not to mention ensuring your laptop camera is off before you come to […]