Employees of Nordyne were rewarded for their generosity with a luncheon recognizing a successful United Way campaign, which raised $32,000 for the United Way of West Tennessee and the funding of many local programs and services. The Nordyne campaign showed a 68 percent increase over last year's funds. From left, front, Sharon Brasfield, Karen Rooker, Emily Howell, JoAnn Carter, Jesse Russell; back, Anthony Parr, Brant Young and Jeremy Arnold.

The Nordyne team provided $32,000 of the $500,000 raised by the 2007 Dyer County Campaign, a goal they reached by starting at the beginning.

"Every year, our approach is to organize as if this was the first campaign to be conducted at Nordyne," said Human Resources Manager Judy Rogers. "We always make time to show the local video and this definitely contributes to the overall success (of the fundraising campaign.) In addition, we give our employees time to ask questions and to fill out their pledge forms. We try to have fun and to inform everyone about what happened to the funds that were raised last year. This takes approximately 20 minutes. I can't think of a better way to utilize this time with our employees (than) sharing with them the needs in our community and giving them an opportunity to make a difference."

"The employees at Nordyne raised $32,000 for a 68 percent increase over last year's United Way campaign," said Nordyne Plant Manager Aaron Tiede. "We will always make sure no employee feels pressured to contribute, but we like to make sure that all understand the importance of giving and its helping power in our community."

To celebrate the generosity of the employees, Nordyne officials passed out T-shirts and hosted a luncheon for employees over a two-day period.

"We hope this will show how proud we are to have such caring and giving employees," said Tiede. "We want our employees to know what we accomplish is not by individual effort, but that by coming together, anything is possible."