Loaned Executive Program

One of the functions of United Way is to groom new community leaders. Along each step of the way United Way needs volunteers to connect the needs of individuals who come to the door of our agencies and the giving public. Individuals involved in campaign and fund raising help us share the message of need. Volunteers, through their work, serve as the voice for these individuals in need.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of the Loaned Executive Program is to train volunteers who will serve as an extension of the professional United Way staff in soliciting executive and employee groups. Loaned Executives will work with the CEO and Employee Campaign Coordinator in businesses across the community to organize and implement an effective, systematic approach to employee giving within each firm assigned. They will be responsible for planning, public relations, organizing, selling and motivating others.

Loaned executives participate in a rigorous training program that includes public speaking, team building, leadership, and sales training that enhances and develops valuable skills they take back to their companies after the campaign.

For the business community, the program develops staff’s:

• Executive leadership ability
• Organizational and planning skills
• Provides community exposure that may not be possible in day-to-day activities
• Expands opportunities to meet, and learn to work effectively with people of varying social, economic and cultural backgrounds
• Provides your firm an opportunity to serve the community, and gain recognition and prestige

For Lawton-Fort Sill and United Way the program:

• Generates knowledgeable, active citizens—a reservoir of potential civic leadership with first-hand experience in the process of voluntarism.
• Strengthens and fosters a spirit of community self help.
• Acquaints the community with responsible sources of community concern within local business, education, labor and civil service organizations.
• Broadens the base and raises levels of giving among executive and employee groups.
• It keeps campaign costs low.
• It develops knowledgeable spokespeople who can relate the United Way experience and resources back to their organization, neighborhood and family.
• It creates a source of future leaders for the United Way and its partner agencies.