A Decade of Service

Service to a community starts with people, ideas and fund raising.  Over the past ten years, 2 MILLION…YES, 2 MILLION $$ has been raised with 98% going to our partner agencies right here in Hood County.

During these same ten years, United Way has:

• Encouraged, guided, and helped our partner agencies to stretch their capabilities,

• Helped them change and broaden their levels of accountability, and

• Most of all, United Way has created suggestions to help them strengthen and expand their services to truly meet the needs of the people they serve.

Learning from the Past and Stepping into the Future!

As we leave this Decade of Service, we ask ourselves…How can the United Way of Hood County not only continue to help our Partner Agencies serve, but also attach and be a part of solutions concerning issues that currently have no defined help in our country?

One way is our Needs Assessment Project.  With the responses from a wide-spread cross section of our community, we have identified the major concerns and issues as seen by people just like YOU and ME!  The #1 issue as seen by our community is drug and alcohol abuse.

Our plan is to be a response of action!  Our plans include:

• Educating the public in every way we can as to what the issues are

• Linking churches, groups, clubs, and organizations that can pool resources more effectively by working together

• Responding with possible, appropriate financial help

• Being an active part of the solution, and not putting the information and results on the shelf and hoping the problems will go away!

Today we are looking at the past, the present, and we ask you to look with us into the future!  The future is where TOGETHER we can continue to make an even bigger impact that will affect children, families and our entire community.

United Way of Hood County is a powerful “united way” of joining people to become a great leading force.

JOIN US  For Another 10 Years of Service!