RBC Financial Group today unveiled its gift to United Way of Greater Toronto with the announcement of a record-setting $7,653,510.

“At RBC, we’re proud of our 35-year partnership with United Way of Greater Toronto, and I thank them for giving us the opportunity to help them help others,” said Gord Nixon, president and CEO, RBC Financial Group, in a news release.

The figure announced this morning represents the total of gifts from a number of sources. It includes payroll deductions, lump sum donations and fundraising activities of RBC employees and pensioners from across the Greater Toronto Area.

It also includes RBC’s corporate gift of $1.4 million and a one-time $1 million gift from Tony and Shari Fell and their family.

Thousands of employees and pensioners participated in this year’s campaign showing creativity and leadership in their fundraising — ranging from silent auctions to tricycle races to head shaving.

Each year RBC Financial sponsors, or “loans,” employees full- time to United Way to provide leadership, expertise and visibility in local campaigns. In 2002, six RBC employees were loaned to United Way of Greater Toronto.