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 Advancing the Common Good
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United Way of the Greenbrier Valley’s goals for Advancing the Common Good focus on three critical areas of Education, Income and Health.
EDUCATION is essential to getting and keeping a job with a livable wage and health benefits.
An INCOME adequate to pay for today's necessities and save for the future provides families some sense of financial stability.
Access to quality HEALTH care keeps children on track in school and adults productive at work.
Remove any one of these building blocks and the other two topple.
Here's how your gifts to United Way have been allocated in 2009 to Advance the Common Good.
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 EDUCATION- 27%
Helping children and youth achieve their potential through education by:
- Improving access to quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities
- Partnering with schools and parents to improve graduation rates
- Providing after school and mentoring programs for at-risk youth
INCOME - 42%
Helping families become financially stable and independent by:
- Supporting basic needs while increasing financial education
- Helping hard working people obtain job training and family-sustaining wages
- Increasing affordable housing for seniors and families
HEALTH - 27%
Improving people's health by:
- Increasing access to critical healthcare services
- Reducing substance abuse, child abuse and domestic violence
- Increasing health education and preventive care.
OTHER - 4%
-Support to area non-profits as designated by donors. |
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2010 Allocations |
The Allocations Committee spent two full days in February meeting with agency representatives to determine funding for program service goals. Their recommend-ations were presented to the United Way board of trustees on March 4, 2010. Partner agencies and United Way initiatives will begin receiving funding April 2010. Representatives from Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas counties sit on the Allocations Committee.
$170,865 will be distributed throughout the Greenbrier Valley this year. Cumulative allocations since United Way's inception in 1986 is over $2.7 million. |
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Partner Agencies and Initiatives focusing on Education, Income and Health
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INCOME |
| American
Red Cross - Providing clothes, housing,
medicine, and food to families whose home has been destroyed
by fire. 304-645-1070 |
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| C.A.S.E.
of Monroe County Providing emergency assistance to individuals and families. 304-772-3381 |
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| Gateway
Industries, Inc. Providing emergency assistance to the Gateway employees with mental and/or physical disabilities. 304-645-3165 |
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| Lifeline
of Greenbrier County - Providing
personal emergency response units to indigent
residents in need. 304-645-6030 |
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| Monroe
Coalition for Children and Families - Providing
vital services to families and children in need. 304-772-5960 |
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| Pocahontas
County NCWV Community Action - Baby Pantry and Work Camp. 304-799-4082 |
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| Pocahontas
County Senior Citizens - Providing personal care services
to senior citizens including
food for the home-bound, transportation, home visits, outreach,
and social support. 304-799-6337 |
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| Quinwood
Community Food Services, Inc. - Providing food and essential non-food
items to families in need. 304-438-8124 |
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| Right
From the Start - Providing vital services
to low-income pregnant women and infants up to one year of age.
304-438-6188 |
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| Shepherd’s
Center of Greenbrier Valley - Supporting
personal care services and programs to senior citizens
including food for the home-bound, transportation, home visits,
outreach, educational classes, and social support. 304-645-4196 |
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| Southeast
Appalachian Rural Alliance - Shower/Utility area for homeless; United Way Day of Caring partner 304-645-4966 |
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Western
Greenbrier Ministerial Association - Providing emergency assistance to
residents in need in
western Greenbrier County.
304-392-6344 |
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| Warming Hands & Hearts - Home heating emergency assistance initiative. 304-647-3783 |
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| FamilyWize Prescription Drug Discount Card - pree prescription durg discount card to lower cost of health care for individuals and families without insurance. 304-647-3783 |
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| Channel 6 Coat Drive - Distribution of coats to those who need them. 304-647-3783 |
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| FamilyWize Prescription Drug Discount Card - pree prescription durg discount card to lower cost of health care for individuals and families without insurance. 304-647-3783 |
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HEALTH
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| Bereaved
Parents - Providing communication support
to those who have lost a child, grandchild, brother or sister.
304-645-3048 |
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| CASA
- Providing collaborative services
and legal counsel for abused and neglected children. 304-645-5437 |
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Family
Refuge Center
Providing services
committed to ending physical, sexual and emotional
abuse of women, children and families. Providing
financial support for programs determined
beneficial to neglected or abused children.
304-645-6334 |
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| Greenbrier
County Child & Youth Advocacy - Providing comprehensive
child-focused services in a child-friendly environment for all
involved
in child neglect and abuse cases.
304-645-4666 |
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| Greenbrier
Valley YMCA Providing scholarships
to children of low-income families for
soccer and other youth programs. 304-645-4000 |
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| Hospice
Care, Inc. - Providing compassionate,
end-of-life care to low-income terminally ill patients and their
families. 304-645-2700 |
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| Monroe
Health Center - Providing medication
and dental services to indigent patients. 304-772-3064 |
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| Pocahontas
County EMS Authority - Providing critical
equipment and supplies to EMS units serving residents throughout
Pocahontas County. 304-456-4893 |
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| Give Kids A Smile - Free dental care for children without insurance. 304-647-3783 |
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