UPIC Solutions grew out of the notion that local United Ways were falling dangerously behind the times in utilizing technology to meet the community involvement needs of our corporations. Many large corporations, as well as emerging medium and e-commerce businesses, were growing frustrated with the manual and paper-intensive processes that are the reality of many United Way workplace campaigns. Technology was being fruitfully applied in other parts of their business.... why not United Way?

UPIC began in the spring of 2000 out of a series of conversations among staff leadership at some of our nation's most respected United Ways. As they shared their challenges and potential local responses, they came to realize that the innovations required would likely divert operational attention from their core businesses. Rather than seek a set of solutions independently, they decided to join forces and pool resources to develop a set of administrative tools that would permit them to focus on building community and enhancing donor relationships. Today, UPIC is a Kentucky-based 501-c-3 non-profit corporation formed by six leading United Ways representing $220 million in campaign volume: Cincinnati, Columbus, High Point, Indianapolis, Louisville and Toledo.

UPIC benefits like-minded United Ways and their customers through a range of solutions from pledge processing to campaign database management; from new donor relationship tools to network support and hosting; from data entry to web hosting. In short, we will work on those solutions and tools that permit local United Ways to focus on what they do best in communities: build donor relationships and community solutions.

UPIC delivers these services through contract relationships with leading technology and business service providers. After a third party review by Compuware Corporation, Helix and its ANDAR and e-Pledge/CRM have been selected as the core applications to the UPIC solution.

During the fall 2001 campaign, the ANDAR e-Pledge/CRM solution was successfully piloted with the 15,000 employee Proctor & Gamble headquarters campaign. By blending e-Pledge/CRM capabilities with paper pledging for retirees and leadership givers, campaign managers were able to provide real-time follow-up during a very challenging campaign environment.

Through a special arrangement with Helix, UPIC has secured volume discounts for ANDAR licensing. In addition, we provide application and e-Pledge/web hosting services reducing your need for new hardware at your location.

For more information on our paper or e-pledge solutions based upon the Helix platform, please contact Winston Faircloth, CEO of UPIC at 502-867-4909 or at winston.faircloth@upicsolutions.org

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