The United Way of Kitsap County will kick-off this year’s annual campaign with two goals in mind; to increase both the dollar amounts raised over last year and to increase the number of donors.

Last years campaign raised nearly $1.8 million with nearly 8,000 individual donors. The annual kick-off event will be held at the Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton Harborside on Thursday, Sept. 8 with the program beginning at 11:45 a.m.

This years guest speaker will be Joe Bonura, National Speakers Association Board of Directors and author of Throw the Rabbit…The Ultimate Approach to Three-Dimensional Selling and the audio learning system Turning Customer Satisfaction into Customer Excitement. In addition there will be special guest speakers who are partner agency success stories.

Tickets to the annual kick-off are available from United Way for $25 per person. Call (360) 377-8505 to reserve a place and help kick-off the 2005-06 United Way Annual Campaign.