United Way — Promotion Deemed Huge Success for United Way

Where your money goes

Arthritis Society

$2.00 per pay …allows a group of 10 individuals with arthritis to participate in a Chronic Pain Management Workshop.

Canadian Mental Health Association

$8.00 per pay … provides one Grade 3 school class with a two-day personalized self-esteem education program.

Crossroads for Women

$3.86 per pay …provides a female victim of family violence with shelter and intervention services for one night.

Family Service Moncton

Up to $3.46 per pay …provides a counseling session for a low-income family and/or couple whose relationship has deteriorated to the point of possible separation and divorce.

Mapleton Teaching Kitchen

$1.50 per pay …provides food for a Teaching Kitchen session where participants learn how to prepare healthy meals on a limited budget.

YMCA

$4.90 per pay …provides one individual with access to nutritious foods and educational workshops.

Ability Transit

$1.08 per pay …allows a senior in a nursing home to go home for a family visit. $3.23 per pay …allows a person with a disability to go to hospital for life saving dialysis three times for a week.

CNIB

$1.25 per pay …provides a white cane to help a blind person maintain his or her independence in the community.

Dieppe Boys and Girls Club

$4.23 per pay …allows a child to attend preschool for one week.

Moncton Boys and Girls Club

$4.00 per pay … offers a child 17 development programs each week.

Victorian Order of Nurses (VON)

$2.58 per pay …provides one visit from a VON registered nurse in the comfort of your home.

YWCA

$2.30 per pay …provides low-income women with a program that teaches self-sufficiency and life skills. $1.92 per pay …provides a half hour of legal advice to low income women.

South-East Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services

$4.50 per pay …provides an alarm clock with vibrator and flashing light for a deaf person.

Support to Single Parents

$5.00 per pay …provides a single parent on a low income with a six-week parenting class or other life skills programs and bus tickets to get to the program.

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Promotion Deemed Huge Success for United Way

Feb. 05, 2010

(Moncton, NB – Jan. 21, 2010) A unique fundraiser organized by two competing Moncton hotel chains is being hailed an overwhelming success by its beneficiary, the United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region.

Through a promotion dubbed “Donate While You Doze”, the Hampton Inn and Suites Moncton and the Future Inns Moncton Hotel and Conference Centre raised more than $10,000 for the local United Way during the recent holiday season.

“We’re over the moon by the success of this initiative and extremely appreciative of the hotels’ management for making it a reality,” says United Way Executive Director Debbie McInnis. “These funds will really make an impact in our community by helping our many partner agencies.”

Through their holiday room sale, the hotels contributed $12 of each nightly room rate to the United Way, in support of vital social agencies and programs.

The promotion attracted both local residents who enjoyed a mini family getaway in their own backyard, as well as many out-of-towners.

“The holidays are a time of giving and the Donate While You Doze program allows our guests to turn their stay with us into a giving opportunity that mirrors the season,” said Louis Wilby, Regional General Manager for Future Inns Hotel and Conference Centres. “We look forward to embarking on the promotion again during the 2010 holiday season and raising even more money for the United Way of Greater Moncton & Southeastern NB Region!”

Pascal Pisegna, General Manager of the Hampton Inn and Suites Moncton, agreed.

“The United Way benefits such a vast number of individuals, families and organizations around the region all year long,” he said. “The Donate While You Doze campaign was an excellent opportunity for the guests of the Hampton Inn and Suites Moncton and Future Inns Moncton Hotel and Conference Centre to turn their stay with us into something meaningful for the community. We look forward to working together again during the 2010 holiday season to further the awareness and support of the United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern Region.”

In addition to running the campaign at Hampton Inn & Suites in Moncton, The D.P. Murphy Group expanded their campaign to include the Holiday Inn Express in Charlottetown and Saint John and the Super 8 in Charlottetown. As a result, over $18,000 in total was raised for the United Ways in Saint John, Moncton and Charlottetown.

Danny Murphy, owner says “We were very pleased at the results of this promotion. We are in year two in Moncton and our first year at our other locations. We would like to thank our guests for helping to make this significant contribution to the United Way and hope to grow it going forward.”