In previous Johnson Controls' campaigns, coordinators at almost all participating locations distributed and collected paper pledge forms from employees. Payroll deduction data was manually entered, and significant time and effort went into tracking, redistributing the dollars and the foundation match among the local United Ways.
The United Way of Greater Milwaukee, operating as our campaign administrator, has contacted all participating United Way organizations across the U.S. and made them aware that we are running a National campaign and recently posted a notification on the United Way National website. Each of these United Ways was asked to populate the system with a list of their funded agencies. Employees in your area should be greeted with an online experience that is respectful of their location. Donors will be allowed to enter a zip code and realign themselves to another United Way if they prefer.
Reports will be made available upon request for locations on their employee participation only if all contributions are processed on the eWay website. If you have employees that use manual pledge forms we can provide a report for the eWay pledges only and you will have to combine with the manual pledges to track your participation. Eventually manual pledge forms will be entered into the eWay system.
Employees with internet access will enter their pledges into the Johnson Controls' site on United Way's eWay network. This site will be available on the portal and we need your help encouraging all employees to use the web instead of the manual pledge card whenever possible. Employees with emails will be sent an email on October 11th when the campaign starts with a message from Steve Roell and the link and instructions on the user id and password. Login instructions to be provided soon.
PLEASE DO NOT UTILIZE THESE LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS UNTIL OCTOBER 11. If an employee is unable to utilize the web to make their pledge then you will use the local United Ways pledge card and submit the cards at the end of the campaign to the address below. The pledges will be updated by the Milwaukee National United Way into the eWay pledge site. Johnson Controls, Inc 5757 N Green Bay Ave Milwaukee, WI 53209 Attn: United Way X62 Johnson Controls is offering payroll deductions, stock, credit card or direct bill payments. Any cash/check donations you obtain through local special events will go directly to your United Way and are not matched by the Foundation. Since there are numerous pledge forms used by United Ways please encourage your employees to not give cash or checks to fulfill their personal pledge, whenever possible. They may opt to receive a bill and pay with a check once the bill arrives. All credit card and direct billing requests will be processed by United Way of Greater Milwaukee, which will also be responsible for all tax receipting. All payments previously requested by Accounts Payable from the local United Way will stop as of 2011. All 2011 payroll deductions will be submitted monthly to the Milwaukee United Way agency and then the Milwaukee United Way will distribute the payments to all the agencies across the U.S. based on the pledges made by our employees. No dollars other than special event dollars should be sent directly to agencies. Designations will be paid by United Way of Greater Milwaukee directly to the agencies chosen by the donor. The Foundation match will be calculated based on the employee pledges in January 2011 by the Greater Milwaukee United Way. The matching contributions will then be sent to the local agencies from the Greater Milwaukee United Way based again on the employee pledges.
1. Please update your information in the iGuide as quickly as possible. https://iguide.truist.com/ Online help is available from the website or contact adminsupport@truist.com.
2. Donors will start accessing the website beginning October 11.
3. DO NOT collect cash or checks as payment on a pledge. All paper pledge forms will be forwarded to Milwaukee for data entry and all designations will be paid per Standard M regulations. Only donations that come through Milwaukee will be matched by the foundation. You should collect any special event dollars as they will not be matched.
4. Please contact your local Johnson Controls locations to help run the campaign. Speakers, posters, promotional materials and where appropriate paper pledge forms will be needed by the various locations. We can not at this time publicize your local marketing materials such as community-wide raffles or other. You should present that information to Johnson Control's ECCs in paper form.
5. Reports will be made available to the locations. Please contact your JCI location for status updates on the campaign. Official reports will be forwarded to you at the end of the campaign, after an audit process has been completed.
1. What are the campaign dates? The online pledge site will only be available from October 11 through November 15. You must run your campaign at any time during this window.
2. Where should I send payments? All payments must be made to United Way of Greater Milwaukee. No donations should be sent directly to the local United Way or to the agencies that are designated by your employees. The only exception is those dollars paid to special events (ie: bake sale, raffle tickets). All dollars paid will be forwarded by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee to the United Way or agencies chosen by the donor.
3. Do you accept paper pledge forms? Yes. But only after encouraging the donor to give online. Running a national campaign with minimal data entry is a cost savings for Johnson Controls and United Way and its full potential is not reached unless used thoughtfully.