Conducting early and ambitious campaigns, Pacesetter organizations sparked United Way's annual campaign, raising nearly $9 million to create opportunities to improve the quality of life for all Greater Clevelanders. Pacesetter organizations commit to going "above and beyond," by raising at least five percent more than the previous year's campaign.

Special thanks to the chairs of the 2007 Pacesetter program: Terrance C.Z. Egger, President and Publisher, The Plain Dealer; Richard H. Fearon, Executive VP, Chief Financial and Planning Officer, Eaton Corporation; and David J. Hooker, Managing Partner, Thompson Hine LLP.

View the Plain Dealer ad recognizing those organizations that reached or exceeded their goals (PDF).

If your company is interested in running a Pacesetter campaign in 2008, please contact Maureen Purcell at (216) 436-2194.

Achievement Centers for Children Adult Guardianship Services American Sickle Cell Anemia     Association AmeriMark Direct LLC AmTrust Bank Applied Industrial Technologies Associated Estates Realty Corp. Battelle Benesch, Friedlander,     Coplan & Aronoff LLP Big Brothers Big Sisters of     Greater Cleveland Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. Boy Scouts of America -     Greater Cleveland Council Brush Engineered Materials Inc. Business Volunteers Unlimited C & P Inc., LLC Cargill Deicing Technology Cargill Deicing Technology -     Cleveland Mine Carnegie Companies Inc. Cavaliers Holdings Company, LLC Caxton Growth Partners LLC CBIZ The Center for Community     Solutions The Center for Health Affairs Center for Mental Retardation Charter One Bank, N.A. City of Parma Heights City of Rocky River Cleveland Hearing & Speech     Center Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Cleveland Sight Center Cohen & Company Coit Services of Ohio, Inc. The Coughlin Group, Inc. Crowe, Chizek and Company LLC D'Amore Tatman Group, LLC Diabetes Association of     Greater Cleveland Dix & Eaton, Inc. Domestic Violence Center Eaton Corporation Edelstein Financial Corp. The Empowerment Center of     Greater Cleveland Epilepsy Association Evarts Tremaine Flicker Co. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Ferro Corporation

Findley Davies, Inc. FirstMerit Bank, NA Forest City Enterprises, Inc. General Motors Corp. Global Technical Recruiters Goodwill Industries Great Lakes Publishing Co. Greater Cleveland Partnership     C.O.S.E.     NorTech Greater Cleveland Regional   Transit Authority (RTA) Hitchcock Center for Women Hobart - a Division of ITW     Food Equipment Group LLC Howard Wershbale & Company The Huntington National Bank Hylant Group The Jacobs Financial     Services Agency Jewish Community Federation     of Cleveland Judson Retirement Community Karamu House, Inc. Kichler Lighting Koyo Corporation of U.S.A. Lakewood Hospital Lakewood Supply Co. Leff Electric Lexington-Bell Community Center The Lipson Group, Inc. Luce Smith & Scott Inc. Marriott Corporation Mayfran International, Inc. McDonald Hopkins LLC Meaden & Moore LLP Medical Mutual of Ohio Medical Service Company Melamed Communications, LLC Melamed Riley Advertising Morrison Products, Inc. MWV Pinnacle Management Co. N.E. Ohio Areawide     Coordinating Agency National City Bank New Directions Inc. North Coast Health Ministry Novelis Corporation Oatey Company Ohio Desk Oswald Companies Phillis Wheatley Association The Plain Dealer

Porter, Wright, Morris &     Arthur LLP Positively Cleveland (formerly     Convention and Visitors     Bureau of Greater Cleveland) Precision Dialogue LLC Premier Medical Supplies Inc. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Principal Financial Group Prudential Insurance Company PSF Management Co. LLC The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Resources Global Professionals Rock and Roll Hall of Fame     and Museum RPM International Inc. S B Stone & Co. The Sherwin-Williams Company Silverman's Spanish American Committee Spero-Smith Investment     Advisers, Inc. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP St. Vincent Charity Hospital Staffing Solutions Enterprises, Inc. Starting Point for Child Care and     Early Education State Industrial Products Stuart Chase Properties Superior Tool Company The Surgery Center Team NEO Thompson Hine LLP Todd Associates Inc. Transitional Housing Inc. Tucker, Ellis & West LLP United Black Fund of     Greater Cleveland United Cerebral Palsy Association     of Greater Cleveland, Inc. United Way of Greater Cleveland University Hospitals at Case Medical Center - Leadership VSM Sewing Inc. Visconsi Companies, LTD Vorys, Sater, Seymour and     Pease LLP Weltman, Weinberg &     Reis Co., LPA West Side Community House West Side Ecumenical Ministry Western Reserve Partners LLC Westlake Porter Public Library