We know you’re out there. We know you’re community-minded. We know you like helping other people. We just don’t know how to find and connect with you.

Who am I talking to/about? Retirees. People who used to be United Way volunteers and donors. People with whom we’ve lost touch over the years.

Literally thousands upon thousands of people donate to the nonprofits of their choice through our many workplace fundraising campaigns each year.

But when people leave the workplace—get a new job, retire or whatever—we tend to lose touch with them. Employers rightly protect their employees’ and retirees’ privacy very aggressively.

Yet at the same time, many of those people—especially the retirees—would like to stay involved in the community. They want to give, volunteer and advocate just like the rest of us.

And we’d love to have them do that through us and our partner agencies. We just don’t know how to reconnect with them.

So, if you’re among the folks we’re looking for and if you’re looking for ways to stay connected to the community, how about re-connecting with United Way?

We’re constantly looking for volunteers to help us with our various projects. And right now we’re in the process of forming a retiree volunteer program.

If you’d be interested in helping out, please send me an email (sheath@uwccr.org). Thanks!