COMMUNITY IMPACT: You canLIVE UNITED.GIVE.The most powerful way to invest in your community. Make a pledge. Give a gift.One hour’s pay per month can changea life.

ADVOCATE.Stand up for those who aren’t beingheard. Know the facts. Lend your voice. United Way can show you how.Visit www.uwheartmo.org.

VOLUNTEER.Get involved. Flex your muscle. Createa LIVE UNITED Action Team with yourco-workers, family or friends. Find out more at www.uwheartmo.org or email volunteer@uwheartmo.org.

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COMMUNITY IMPACT: Changing the Future

Why give to Heart of Missouri United Way?Heart of Missouri United Way maximizes the impact of your gift. We put your dollars to work immediately and locally to improve our community. Our data-driven investment decisions and innovative funding strategies ensure the highest return on your investment.

It’s easy to make a difference! The payroll deduction option with United Way makes donating easy and painless, plus it’s tax-deductible!

We are moving from simply funding the needs of agencies and programs to investing in strategies that improve people’s lives and our entire community. We will also invest in new partnerships to define and implement those strategies. This model creates the highest return on your investment because it is based on data-driven investment decisions, funding support for innovative and collaborative programs to address our community’s challenges, performance measurement and accountability.

Heart of Missouri United Way works to improve lives of people in need by mobilizingand coordinating the caring power of community resources in mid-Missouri.

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF A STRONG COMMUNITY

Community Impact is about changing the future. We will always work to meet the immediate needs of the people we serve. However, just meeting those needs doesn’t solve the problem. Community Impact takes us beyond the symptoms and allows us to change the conditions that create those needs. We do this by focusing on Education, Income and Health - the building blocks of a strong community. This is how we LIVE UNITED.

• We will expand beyond meeting the immediate needs of the people we serve.

• We are engaging our community to look together at the underlying community conditions creating those needs.

• We will work together to change those conditions.

• We will help empower the people we serve to overcome their needs, foster their human potential,and create a brighter future for their families and our community.

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ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD

Through Community Impact we truly LIVE UNITED.Underneath everything we are, underneath everything we do. We are all people.

Connected. Interdependent. United.

And when we reach out a hand to one, we influence the condition of all.

We strengthen our neighborhoods.

We bolster the health of our communities.

And we change the lives of many who walk past us every day.

That’s what it means to LIVE UNITED.Don’t just wear the shirt... LIVE IT!

EDUCATIONHelping cHildren SUcceed in ScHOOlWe all win when children succeed in school, graduate, find work and become productive adults.

INCOMEincreASing FinAnciAl STABiliTY And WOrKFOrce reAdineSSEveryone needs to be able to support themselves, which means having a job, managing money wisely, owning or renting a home and saving for the future.

HEALTHiMprOVing peOple’S HeAlTH And WellneSSAccess to quality health and mental health care prevents poverty, supports families and avoids costly use of emergency room services.

SAFETY NETreSpOnding TO iMMediATe eMergencY needS And prOMOTing VOlUnTeeriSMWe will always provide Safey Net services like food, clothing and shelter.

United Way works to solve these issues:

HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY1700 East Pointe Dr., Suite 201, Columbia, MO 65201Tel: 573.443.4523 / Fax: 573.874.1285www.uwheartmo.org / office@uwheartmo.org

HERE’S HOW WE INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITY

EDUCATION Big Brothers Big Sisters - School Based, SOAR, Community Based Mentoring • Boonslick Heartland YMCA - Summer Day Camp, Youth Activities • Boy Scouts of America - Great Rivers Council - Scoutreach • Boys & Girls Club - After-School Program, Summer Camp Program • Fun City Youth Academy - Summer Academy • Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland - Leadership Development Program • Harrisburg Early Learning Center - Infant & Toddler Program, Preschool Program, Two Year Old Program • Job Point - Job Works, Youth Mentoring, Youthbuild • Lutheran Family & Children’s Services - Resource Parents • Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center - Preschool Program • Nora Stewart Early Learning Center - Preschool Program • UCP Easter Seals Child Development Center - Camp Friday, Inclusive Childcare • University Y - Camp Mudd, Kid Contact, Y Tutors • Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

INCOME Job Point - Employment Projects With Industry • OATS - Transportation Services • Services for Independent Living - Transportation, Show Me Tech • University Y - Habitat for Humanity • Unlimited Opportunities - Community Employment Services

HEALTH Adult Day Connection - Adult Day Healthcare • Alzheimer’s Association - Respite Care • Boonslick Heartland YMCA - Memberships • Boys & Girls Town of Missouri - Residential Treatment Services, Transitional Living Group Home • Family Counseling Center - Boonville/Fayette Outpatient, Columbia Outpatient • Family Health Center - Dental Services • Meals on Wheels - Home Delivered Meals • Phoenix Programs - Substance Abuse Treatment & Recovery Services

SAFETY NET American Red Cross - Armed Forces Services, Disaster Relief, Disaster Preparedness • Boone County Council on Aging - Senior Connect, Retired Senior Volunteer Program • True North - Advocacy Services, Emergency Shelter, Transitional Living Program • Harvest House - Emergency Shelter • Lutheran Family & Children’s Services - WINGS-Birthparent Program • Rainbow House - Child Advocacy Center, Emergency Shelter, Transitional Living Program • Salvation Army - Harbor House - Emergency Shelter, Social Services • Services for Independent Living - Community Living, Youth & Family Services • The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri - Food Acquisition Program, Central Pantry & Mobile Pantry • UCP Easter Seals Child Development Center - KARS/Resource & Referral • Unlimited Opportunities - Family Support Services, Respite Care for Families • Voluntary Action Center - Family Assistance & Emergency Services, Volunteer Coordination Program • 2-1-1 - 24/7/365 Information & Referral Services, Disaster Relief Coordination

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DID YOU KNOW...• Nearly 40% of mid-Missouri public school children live in poverty.

• This year alone, nearly 200 mid-Missouri students will drop out of school.

• Nearly 1,500 people are on the waiting list for public housing.

• More than 6,000 people have lost their jobs.

• More than 7,000 of our neighbors will go hungry tonight.

TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE