"To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another in Hood County."

• $1,000,000 has been allocated or distributed since 1999 to community agencies
• Hood County United Way was started to help raise money for community agencies
• Started in 1998 by board members of Hood County Children’s Charities
• First Campaign conducted in 1999
• First Allocation Committee 1999
• As a result of the first campaign in 1999, $70,000 stayed in Hood County rather than go to Tarrant County
• United Way of Hood County’s goal is to have zero percent operating expense
• United Way of Hood County started Ruth’s Place, a health clinic for women and children
• All monies donated stay in Hood County