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The Triangle United Way held its Academy of Caring Annual Awards Celebration on Wednesday, April 4th, at the RBC Center Arena Club in Raleigh, North Carolina. Womble Carlyle was given the Excellence-Leadership Circle Campaign Award and Johnny Loper, member in the Raleigh office, attended to receive the award on the firm's behalf. The Triangle United Way distributed a program at the event and included in it a description of Womble Carlyle's 2006 workplace giving campaign which is reproduced below. Other Excellence-Leadership Circle Campaign Award winners included RTI International and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina. For more information on the Triangle United Way and its worthwhile endeavors, go here.

Description of Womble Carlyle's 2006 workplace campaign excerpted from Triangle United Way event program:

"Attorneys at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice are committed to the communities in which they practice. This commitment was clearly demonstrated through the organization's successful United Way campaign for 2006.

Womble Carlyle operates from both a downtown Raleigh location as well as in Research Triangle Park. Rather than run one main kickoff event at a central location, Campaign Chair John Turlington orchestrated two similar events, one at each location. The partners, law teams and staff enjoyed the benefits of special events such as an ice cream social, a luncheon and auction. In order to increase employee awareness of issues facing the local community, representatives from a United Way member agency were invited to speak to employees at these events about the work that they do in the community and the importance of Triangle United Way's Community Care Fund.

Womble Carlyle employees responded warmly, demonstrating their leadership in community care through their generosity in workplace giving. Leadership giving at this organization increased by 40 percent from the 2005 to 2006 campaign. Their campaign also saw a 22 percent overall increasing in giving this year. In addition to their personal resources, Womble Carlyle associates were generous with their time. Nearly 90 percent of staff participated in a Day of Caring at this member agency in 2006.

In every way, Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice employees showed themselves as partners and leaders in our community, willing and ready to stand in the gap and to do what matters."