Businesses with a keenness to develop their corporate social responsibility and connect with communities can do so through our Corporate partners program. The program is designed to take the hassle corporate sometimes endure when assessing the risk associated with granting and monitoring funds intended for specific charitable organizations. At UWG, we handle that risk for you by vetting the proposed NGO, assessing their needs and monitoring their use of the funding. Specific schemes available to our corporate partners are:

Work Place Giving - allows employees to combine their small donations with gifts from other work colleagues to make a big difference. Read more
Directed Grants- allows a corporate entity to make a grant to one or several charities through United Way Ghana. UWG will vet and assess the organization and monitor disbursement and allocation of the grant. Read more
Loaned Executive program draws on the skills base of professionals in industry and seeks to align their expertise to areas that supports United Way Ghana’s work with local communities. Read more
Day of Caring is a one-day community event that encourages people across Ghana to direct the spirit of love and compassion inherent in the St Valentine’s Day tradition towards worthwhile community service.Read more

Gifts in Kind Gifts in Kind allows individuals and corporations to maximize utilization of machinery, equipment, furniture, clothing and products. UWG will accept any item for onward distribution to a need community or community based organization

Workplace Giving
Simply nominate your chosen charity from our list of carefully screened NGOs, specify the amount you want to donate from your salary and how often you want to do this, and leave the rest up to us at United Way Ghana. We will use our expertise in vetting charitable institutions to select those NGOs that make effective and efficient use of their resources and do remarkable work in their communities.
Work Place Giving is ideal for companies that have a corporate culture demonstrating concern about the wealth, health, and general welfare of the less privileged in the communities they serve.
The initiative offers a simple, effective, and highly visible way to engage all employees in giving back to your community. With a small contribution deducted monthly from staff salaries your organisation can collectively make a significant change.
It is built on an extremely successful model used by Community Chest Western Cape (United Way, Cape Town), that boasts over 100,000 employees participating in their WorkPlace Giving programme.
WorkPlace Giving is a tested and highly effective way to achieve measurable community impact. It accounts for 75% of all the dollars raised by United Ways in the United States, according to a study conducted by United Way of America.
The benefits

• With little effort businesses have a programme that mobilises their entire staff to participate in a social responsibility programming (the objective is 100% participation but anyone is free to opt out at any point)
• United Way Ghana presents carefully selected and screened community NGOs and supervises programme development and execution to ensure that the needs of the community are met. Charities and their use of corporate funds are continuously monitored and evaluated.
• United Way Ghana informs your staff about the process and communicates with them throughout the campaign. We also communicate programme successes to your external publics. 
• Businesses can select to donate to the NGO working in your community; in that way you can support and strengthen your customer base.
• United Way matches and consolidates gifts from other corporations working in the same community to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the disadvantaged of your community.

Loaned Executives
Our Loaned Executive program draws on the skills base of professionals in industry and seeks to align their expertise to areas that supports United Way Ghana’s work with local communities. Highly experienced individuals with a desire to enhance their professional skills, advance their careers and support community projects are loaned from their workplace for a limited period of time or a specific community project. There, they receive training that develops their organizational and public speaking skills.
What is a Loaned Executive?A Loaned Executive is an employee in a company or organisation who is released from his/her duties to provide a service, expert training or consultation to United Way Ghana or a beneficiary organisation(s).

Can anyone become a Loaned Executive?A potential candidate is someone who is highly motivated, has a desire to enhance his/her professional skills. Loaned executives work for a set period (between three and six months), during which time, they attend a two-day training session that teaches them about United Way Ghana’s policies and beneficiary agencies. Secondment is on a part- or full-time basis and is managed within a framework that provides tangible milestones for both the loaned executive and the recipient charity.

Benefits to businesses include:

• Employees trained at no cost in areas such as project management
• Employees with better understanding of the community’s needs and service gaps
• A company with a strengthened role as a corporate citizen in the local community
• A company with improved community relations and corporate visibility
• Employees with increased confidence in their professional abilities

Benefits to charity include:

• Access to expertise in specific areas essential to the charity’s development
• Opportunities to form lasting business contact
• Opportunities to expand its skills repertoire

How much does it cost?
Nothing, except for a little time and the sharing of skills. While ‘on loan’, employees will still receive their company salary.

Gifts in Kind
NGOs perform some of the most vital work in hundreds of communities across Ghana and yet they often lack the basic technology and resources required to deliver better services and respond more rapidly and effectively. Our Gifts-in-Kind program provides an efficient mechanism to donate products, office supplies and equipment to community-based programs.

DAY OF CARING
Day of Caring (DOC) is a one-day community event that encourages people across Ghana to direct the spirit of love and compassion inherent in the St Valentine’s Day tradition towards worthwhile community service. Each year, United Way Ghana sets aside a day on or around 14 February to symbolise the constructive power of national unity and the Ghanaian commitment to actively supporting disenfranchised communities through the act of volunteering, donating money or providing aid.
The one-day volunteer event involves hundreds of concerned individuals transforming their daily routine to work to serve their community. Though the annual Day of Caring (DOC) event began in 2006, nearly 4,500 lives have been touched through the generous participation of more than 650 volunteers from companies like Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, The Coca Cola Bottling Company of Ghana, UT Financial Services Limited, African Concrete Products, Taysec, Gokals, 37 Military Hospital, Opportunities Industrialization Centre-Ghana, and others spread over six distinct projects in different regions of Ghana.