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Workplace Awards Luncheon Recognizes Local Volunteers
United Way celebrates workplace volunteers, the driving force behind the campaign

Kingston, ON (April 29, 2025) The United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington is pleased to recognize workplace volunteers, who have helped make significant positive impact during the 2024 campaign. The annual Workplace Awards Luncheon took place on Tuesday April 29, 2025 at the Quality Inn and Conference Centre and was generously sponsored by Bell and CIBC Wood Gundy.

The event recognized and honoured the achievements of workplace campaigns in KFL&A. In 2024, workplace campaigns made up 61 per cent of the campaign dollars.

“Volunteers are critical to the success of the campaign and we are grateful to everyone who shares their time and talent with the United Way,” said Joanne Langlois, 2024 United Way KFL&A Campaign Chair. “Thank you to all those who volunteered in workplace campaigns and events. This event is an opportunity to honour and recognize their hard work and the impact each workplace and individual has made in our community.”

The 2025 event saw several awards handed out including Participation Awards, Achievement Awards, special awards for first time campaigns, Champion Awards and recognition for local labour and media partners. Workplaces were also recognized with Britton Smith Leadership Awards, in recognition of long-time United Way supporter and philanthropist A. Britton Smith.

Bell also presented the “Voice of Community Award” in memory of Greg Hinton, an award recognizing a member of the United Way’s Speakers Bureau, which is made up of agency volunteers and staff who make presentations in workplaces.

In addition to the awards at the event, the United Way also introduced the volunteer who will chair the 2025 Campaign. 

The complete list of the Workplace Volunteer Award winners is available online at: https://www.unitedwaykfla.ca/2024workplaceawardwinners/

About United Way KFL&A
United Way Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington works closely with community partners to ensure that people have the opportunity to reach their full potential and live with hope, dignity, and a sense of belonging. This vision is realized by building on deep-rooted local community knowledge and relationships to empower people to make an impact. 

The United Way raises funds for programs that support immediate needs while also tackling complex social issues collaboratively. Led by volunteers, driven by a small professional staff team, the United Way KFL&A is a unifying force, encouraging people to get involved to support our most vulnerable.

Thanks to the continued generous support of the community, United Way KFL&A is proud to rank fourth among United Ways across Canada in dollars raised related to the size of our market.

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Media Contact:

Mandy Pasch, Director, Marketing and Communications
United Way KFL&A
613-876-3088, marketing@unitedwaykfla.ca

 

 

 

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United Way of KFL&A would like to acknowledge this traditional territory’s longer existence and its significance for the Indigenous people who lived and continue to live on Turtle Island.

We are situated on traditional Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat land. There are Métis and other non-status First People from many Indigenous Nations present in our community today. This acknowledgement symbolizes the United Way KFL&A’s first step, of many, along this path toward Indigenous reconciliation, in a respectful manner.

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