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Sandy Rupp's Challenge

The United Way after Pfizer

by Eve Silberman

posted 3/29/2009

“My heart just went to my toes,” says Sandy Rupp. The date was January 22, 2007, and she'd gotten word that Pfizer was closing its Ann Arbor labs. The year before, the pharmaceutical giant and its 2,100 staffers had donated $2 million to Rupp's agency, the United Way of Washtenaw County--a quarter of its revenue.

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