There are just eight weeks left to go in the Sarnia-Lambton United Way campaign.
The annual fundraising effort is hoping to raise $1.65 million to help fund 17 local agencies.
Executive Director Dave Brown said they were hoping to be a little further ahead by now.
"Right now we're at 45 per cent of our $1.65 million needs target, which works out to $740,000, so we're getting closer to that $750,000 mark," said Brown. "We would like to be at 50 per cent by now, things have slowed down a little bit, but we're hopeful we'll be there in the next week or so."
Brown said so far they've had nearly 1,300 donors contribute to this year's campaign.
"It's slowed down to the point that we're monitoring it very closely, and in particular it's slowed down within the mail and online donations," he said. "There's still tons of employee campaigns that are still running, in fact only one has wrapped up already which is INEOS Styrolution and they were actually up over last year's total, so we're excited about that."
The United Way of Sarnia-Lambton funds 17 local agencies providing over 31 programs and services in three target areas, From Poverty to Possibility, All That Kids Can Be and Health People-Strong Communities.
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