2022 CAMPAIGN & COMMUNITY AWARDS

2022 Campaign Awards

United Way of Greater Lafayette recognizes outstanding volunteers and corporate partners each January during the Annual Meeting and Awards Celebration, but this year, things were a bit different. We celebrated all of our award winners in March! Check out the winners below.

Best Overall Campaign Awards

This award will recognize the results of an organization’s United Way campaign efforts.  Organizations will be ranked compared to their peers by numerically evaluating the following criteria: employee per capita giving levels (35%), employee percent growth over previous year giving levels (30%), employee dollars raised (25%), and total dollars raised (10%).

500+ Employees

Caterpillar, Inc.

2022 Best Overall Campaign

Award of Merit

Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc.

Award of Merit

Evonik Corporation, Tippecanoe Laboratories

101-499 Employees

DeFouw Automotive

2022 Best Overall Campaign

Award of Merit

Kirby Risk Corporation

Award of Merit

First Merchants Bank

1-100 Employees

Stall & Kessler's

2022 Best Overall Campaign

Award of Merit

State Bank

Award of Merit

Truitt Ray Law

Corporate Rookie of the Year

Each year, we like to shine the spotlight on our rookies. These are the individuals who are new to the United Way campaign but perform like long-time champions.

Corporate Rookie of the Year

GE Aviation

Employee Campaign Coordinator of the Year

The Campaign Coordinator of the Year Award always presents a difficult decision to make. There are coordinators throughout this community who work tirelessly on our behalf. But every year, one individual stands out among the rest.                                                                                                                    

This volunteer is no stranger to the United Way, coordinating employee campaigns, serving as the Volunteer Engagement Committee chair previously and recently joining the Campaign Cabinet. She pulled out all the stops to ensure an increase in this year’s employee campaign even raffling off plane tickets! We were impressed with her creativity and her willingness to shine a spotlight on the importance of United Way.

past Purdue Chair

Jenna Winger

Employee Campaign Coordinator of the year

Bill DeFouw Campaign Leadership Award

We meet so many people throughout the campaign who invest their time and energy into helping us achieve our goal of changing lives in Greater Lafayette. There are always individuals who go above and beyond their volunteer roles and stand out as examples of what happens when we work together.

The Bill Defouw Leadership Award is presented to an individual in honor of Mr. Defouw’s memory. This award recognizes an individual who leads the way in promoting United Way of Greater Lafayette’s work with great care and compassion.

Joe Howarth

Bill DeFouw Campaign Leadership Award

Campaign Chair Award

The Campaign Chair Award is given at the discretion of the Campaign Chair to individuals or companies that demonstrate true leadership during the campaign.

Michelle Kreinbrook

Megan Hartman

2022 Dr. Robert Hagen Campaign Chair Award

2022 Dr. Robert Hagen Campaign Chair Award

2022 Community Awards

2022 Gary Henriott Community Impact Leadership Award

The Gary Henriott Community Impact Award is given to an individual or group who has demonstrated a commitment to action and made an impact to causes, programs or projects that create lasting change in Greater Lafayette.

Brandi Christiansen

2022 Gary Henriott Community Impact Award

2022 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR

This next award recognizes an individual whose exemplary volunteer service has set them apart from others. 

Jean Gaumer

2022 Volunteer of the Year