Campaign Awards
Community Care Fund Performance
Covidien Pharmaceuticals
One of Covidien’s web pages accessed through www.covidien.com reads as follows regarding its policies toward the communities in which they live and work:
"The Covidien Partnership for Neighborhood Wellness provides each of our locations with financial resources and donated products to make an impact in their communities. Our locations are encouraged to support the needs of their local community health centers. Additionally, our employees are encouraged to volunteer their time to organizations important to them.”
Covidien Pharmaceutical CEO (and former UW Emerging Leader) Keitha Strong provides the leadership to the TUW Campaign Committee of 9 led by Campaign Leader Sherry Parker. In 2007 they held 4 agency fairs with
about 8 or 9 agencies at each. They also conducted employee meetings for all shifts (done over 4 days). Covidien Pharmaceuticals provides donor incentive gifts and promotes fair share giving. The entire campaign team attended the kickoff celebration this year as well as participated on Community Impact Tours.
One of the two significant benchmarks in this category was Covidien Pharmaceutical’s “Increase in CCF per capita”, going from $120 per employee in 2006 to $133 per employee in 2007. The other significant metric shows a CCF increase of 8% in 2007 as compared to the previous year. More than 68% of Covidien Pharmaceutical’s 2007 employee contribution went directly to the CCF. When the 100% matching corporate gift is added to the employee campaign, the dollar amount going directly to the Community Care Fund is doubled.
Best Practices:
• Leadership Campaign
• Kickoff Event
• Agency Fair
• Community Impact Tour
• Ice Cream Social
• Provided Giving Incentives
• Used Group Solicitations
• Corporate Gift (100% Matching to Employee CCF)