UB’s 2013 Employees Campaign for the Community has raised $358,763, or 39 percent of its goal of $850,000.

The amount raised as of Nov. 5 is based on the response of 19 percent of UB employees who have either made a gift or declined.

The campaign features a number of incentives to encourage employee to donate to the campaign. Only those individuals who have made a donation to the campaign are eligible to win. Prizes will be awarded every Thursday and all employees who make a donation by midnight the previous night will be eligible to win. Winners will be posted on the campaign web site under “news.”

Winners of the campaign’s first two prizes are Patricia Wilson, Division of Athletics, and Jennifer Russo, Procurement Services, who each won a special parking space for the spring 2014 semester, and Thomas Nochajski, School of Social Work, who received a pair of reception passes and tickets for the Distinguished Speaker Series lecture featuring Malcolm Gladwell.

The winners of the Nov. 7 incentives — two $15 gift certificates to Curley’s Grill & Banquet Center and two guest passes for the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens — had not been announced as of press time.

Prizes still to be awarded include:

• Nov. 14: Four Darwin Martin House coffee mugs, a photo of architecturally significant buildings in Buffalo and two Darwin Martin House tour tickets(a $115 value) and two tickets to the March 26 Sanjay Gupta Distinguished Speaker Series lecture
• Nov. 21: A 50-minute massage gift certificate and an HP ENVY 120 color printer 
• Dec. 5: Four tickets to the April 26 Distinguished Speaker Series event with magician David
• Dec. 12: SaveAround Coupon Books offering discounts on food, recreation and entertainment in Western New York, to be awarded to three employees and a $50 Tim Hortons gift certificate.

In addition to the individual prizes, a grand prize will be awarded on Nov. 20 to the UB unit that has the highest percentage increase in donors from Nov. 4 through Nov. 20. That prize is 16 tickets — for eight employees and their guests — plus parking to the UB Bulls football game vs. Bowling Green on Nov. 29 in Ralph Wilson Stadium.

To make a pledge online, visit the campaign website.

To view the scorecard that shows percent to goal for all units, visit the campaign website.

The campaign runs through the end of the semester. Austin Booth, vice provost for university libraries, is campaign chair.