Help Support Workplace Safety and Health
WisCOSH is an independent, non-profit oganization that works closely with the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, labor unions, individual workers, and other occupational safety and health groups across North America and around the world.
There are several ways you can help promote safer and healthier workplaces throughout Wisconsin. They include membership, donations and participating in fundraisers.
Membership
WisCOSH is the largest, independant, worker based organization in Wisconsin that makes worker safety and health top priority. We are not a government agency. Our strength depends on our members. The greater the membership the more effective WisCOSH can be. The bigger WisCOSH's membership the more clout WisCOSH has when discussing workplace safety and health issues with Wisconsin's elected officals in the state and federal level.
Membership in WisCOSH is a great way to help support workplace safety and health. Membership comes with some great privaleges such as our quarterly newsletter, our yearly Resource Directory and early notification of WisCOSH events.
Donations
WisCOSH is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and donations are tax deductable. There are several ways to make donations to help support WisCOSH and workplace safety and health in Wisconsin.
Direct Giving
You can make direct donations to WisCOSH. You can make monetary donations, donations of supplies, equipment and materials. WisCOSH can make use of new or like new office equipment and supplies. WisCOSH prints a large amount of handout materials and a donation to cover the costs of such can make a huge difference in what materials we can handout and how offten. Donations of transportation for events is also welcome.
Another method of giving could be to set up a trust or endowment for WisCOSH.
Workplace Giving
There are many valuable organizations that we all want to support and encourage, however, we often find it difficult to come up with the money we'd like to give to them. WisCOSH is a member of Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee, formerly AChoice, and is one of the choices available in the yearly workplace giving campaigns in many workplaces.
Workplace giving is one of the most effective ways to donate to WisCOSH since it allows you to spread out the payment over a whole year rather than trying to come up with the full amount at one time or remembering to write a check every month. It also allows you to give more since it is a smaller amount each pay period but which adds up to more support by the end of the year.
In the past WisCOSH could receive donations through the United Way workplace giving campaigns through the 'Donar Choice' program. Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee is no longer a part of that program. Milwaukee Shares is now running it's own, seperate campaign for workplace giving. Many companies will have presentations by United Way and Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee. Some may only run one or the other. If social, ecconomic and environmental justice issues are a concern of yours and you want your money spent in your community ask your companys Human Resources department to host a campaign with Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee or contact Community Shares directly to find out how you can give to your community.
You can support WisCOSH directly through regular payroll deduction in the fall 2010 workplace-giving programs at the following government offices and private businesses. Look for WisCOSH listed under the Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee umbrella. Please tell your friends who work in these locations that they also can support us through payroll deduction where they work!
Public Sector Combined Giving Campaigns (Govenment Offices and Educational Institutions)
Public Sector Combined Campaign | Dates of campaign |
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) | Sept. 1 – Dec. 15 |
Milwaukee County Combined Campaign | Sept. 22 – Oct. 17 |
City of Milwaukee Combined Campaign | Sept. 23 – Oct. 21 |
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) | Oct. 14 – Nov. 14 |
Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) | Sept. 8 – Oct. 10 |
Suburban Municipalities & Schools | September and October |
Private Businesses Where Community Shares Is Holding A Campaign
After Breast Cancer Diagnosis | Alliance for Children and Families | Alverno College | Alzheimer’s Association | American Red Cross | Assurant Health |
Aurora Healthcare | Beans & Barley | Big Brothers, Big Sisters | Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee | Business Journal serving Greater Milw. | CH2MHill |
Community Advocates | Engberg Anderson Architects | First Business Bank | GE Medical | Generation Growth Capital | Gordon Flesch Company |
Greater Milwaukee Foundation * | Hunger Task Force | IMPACT | Independence First | Kaiser Group, Waukesha | Legal Action of Wisconsin |
M3 Insurance Solutions | Marcus Center for the Performing Arts | Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce | MRA | Milwaukee Achiever | Milwaukee Magazine |
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre | Morgan Stanley | Mount Mary College | Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee | OnMilwaukee.com | Penfield Children’s Center |
Planned Futures | Previant Goldberg et al law firm | Reilly Penner & Benton | Ritz Holman | Sattell Johnson Appel | The Schroeder Group |
Simpson & Deardorff law firm | Tate Family Foundation | UW Credit Union | Veolia | Wegner | Wells Fargo |
Fundraising
WisCOSH holds ocassional fundraising events in order to continue to provide low cost - and whenever possible free - training as well as help and advocacy for workers. Please join us at one or more and show your support for safer and healthier work for all workers.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
WisCOSH is having a fundraising event at the Horny Goat Hideaway for a second time! WisCOSH had such great turnout with such short notice we've been invited back for the upcoming Packers-Lions game. Horny Goat Brewery has generously donated 10% of the day's total sales from 11am to 5pm. Join us for the game and a good time and support WisCOSH's efforts.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tonight WisCOSH will commemmorate 32 years of providing information, training and advocacy to workers and busineasses throughout the state of Wisconsin. WisCOSH will hold a fundraiser dinner and hold a membership meeting including the nomination and election of officers. The members of the WisCOSH Board of Directors comes from it's membership. There will also be an update on