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Kirshenbaum credited department United Way coordinators for helping to drive participation increases. <b>(See sidebar)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount of people participating increased as well as the amount given,&#8221; she said. &#8220;UNMC employees are now making an even greater impact in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Final prize winners<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the final prize drawing of the campaign, the winners were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jill Thewke, College of Nursing: $25 Crave gift card\n<li>Shantaram Joshi, Genetics, cell biology and anatomy: $20 Godfather&#8217;s gift card\n<li>Janine Pufall, surgery: One gift certificate for dinner for two at Cantina Laredo<\/ul>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" nzVFT xQkXDw S\"> nzVFT xQkXDw S<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final figures: $165,837 raised with 50 percent participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":50712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-academic-affairs","department-business-and-finance","department-college-of-allied-health-professions","department-college-of-medicine","department-college-of-nursing","department-college-of-pharmacy","department-college-of-public-health","department-eppley-institute-for-cancer-research","department-human-resources","department-munroe-meyer-institute","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines","department-vice-chancellor-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goal! 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