Buy Chocolate, Support the "Change Starts Here" Campaign
PHOTO: UWCNVI Campaign Co-Chair Laura Healey and Christine McAuley, Bernard Callebaut Chocolates pose with the chocolates for sale this year.
Chocolates Support “Change Starts Here”
Campaign
United Way Partners
With Bernard Callebaut For Second Year To Sell Chocolates
Nanaimo, BC – October 1, 2012 – The United Way Central and Northern
Vancouver Island (UWCNVI) has partnered with Bernard Callebaut Chocolates for
the second year to sell chocolate bars during the “Change Starts Here”
campaign. The UWCNVI hope to raise $8000 this year from the chocolate sales.
The specially
branded United Way milk or dark chocolate bars can be purchased for $2 each or
boxes of 30 can be purchased for $60. One dollar from each bar sold goes
directly to the United Way Central
and Northern
Vancouver Island campaign that funds critically needed programs for kids, youth
and seniors in the Central Island.
Chocolates will be
sold until the end of the year through a variety of workplace fundraising
campaigns. Individuals or businesses interested in purchasing boxes to sell can
contact info@uwcnvi.ca or
call 250-729-7400.
The 2012/13 “Change
Starts Here” campaign aims to raise $700,000 for 22 charities in the Central
Island for programs that support kids, youth and seniors that make a direct
impact in their lives.
Donations can be
made online at www.uwcnvi.ca or by
calling 250-729-7400.
About UWCNVI
Since 1958, United Way
CNVI has invested in programs and services that help people to improve their
lives and that strengthen our community. Last year, UWCNVI raised $986,000
across Central and Northern Island communities. Because of the generosity of
donors and volunteers, UWCNVI was able to make grants in 2012 to 44 charities
supporting 50 programs for children, youth and seniors in Central Island, the
Comox Valley and Campbell River. UWCNVI also manages the Success by 6 early
childhood development programs throughout the Central and Northern Island and
plays a part in working to reduce homelessness by being the Community Entity
for Nanaimo’s Homelessness Strategy. UWCNVI will soon be working to launch the new Better at Home
program to help keep seniors living at home in Parksville.
For additional
information please contact:
Erin O’Reilly
313 Public Relations
on behalf UWCNVI
250-713-0489
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