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LIVE UNITED
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LIVE UNITED • Improving Financial Stability
To learn how you can help us make a difference while networking with other professional, caring women, contact Marta Vargas, United Way Director of Leadership Giving, at (407) 835-0923 or e-mail marta.vargas@hfuw.org.
• Alleveiating Hunger and Homelessness
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• Developing Healthy Children and Families • Building Safe Communities
Our focus areas include:
Investing In Results
Domestic violence. Poverty. Access to health care and child care. Women in Central Florida face growing challenges, made worse by the economic downturn. The Women’s Leadership Initiative was launched to help raise awareness, funds and volunteer support to address problems that disproportionately affect women and children.
United Way is moving in a bold, new direction focused on prevention. Building on our tradition of helping millions of Central Floridians for more than 70 years, we’re now addressing the root causes of problems that reasearch shows affect people’s lives and our entire community. We know for every dollar spent on prevention, $7 is saved in intervention. Prevention makes smart economic sense – and it’s the right thing to do for people.
Heart of Florida United Way Dr. Nelson Ying Center 1940 Traylor Blvd. Orlando, FL 32804-4714 (407) 835-0900 Fax: (407) 835-1959 www.hfuw.org
INFLUENCE THE CONDITION OF ALL. REACH OUT A HAND TO ONE AND
Our Mission
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities Meeting Urgent Need
Despite signs that the national economy is recovering, Central Florida is lagging behind. With local unemployment and foreclosure rates still at recordhigh levels, thousands of Central Floridians are losing everything they’ve worked a lifetime to achieve. In desperation, many are calling 2-1-1, United Way’s free, 24-hour helpline, where requests for basic needs assistance – housing, utilities and food – are breaking all-time records. Last year, nearly 120,000 people called for help. More than half were first-time callers, 68% were unemployed and the majority had children at home. Although many of us are concerned about how the economy is affecting our own families, we must be ready to help neighbors who are struggling to stay afloat. People want to work and support their families, but they need our assistance until jobs return and conditions improve. We are all in this together, and together we will come through. Will you join us to help?
The United Way Women’s Leadership Initiative is co-chaired by Helen Donegan, Vice President of Community Relations for UCF, and Karen Dee, President/CEO of Fifth Third Bank, Central & North Florida. It is guided by the Executive Council, which is comprised of prominent local female business and civic leaders.
Join us to help make Central Florida a community where women are healthy and safe, and children can thrive. Regardless of age, income or walk of life, women are vulnerable to a range of issues that can be devastating – to them and their children. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all clients served by United Way funded programs are women – and many have children.
United Way Women’s Leadership Initiative
Quick Facts
Did you know? Heart of Florida United Way… • Is the region’s largest supporter of local health and human service agencies • Serves residents of Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties • Raised or distributed more than $25.2 million in 2009-10 to help local people in need • Is overseen by a local volunteer board of directors • Operates 2-1-1, a free, 24-hour information and referral helpline and crisis helpline • Has served millions of Central Floridians since 1939 Why Give to United Way? • All donations stay in the local community to address local problems. • Your donation, combined with thousands of others, has the greatest possible impact. • Dedicated community volunteers oversee fund distribution, ensuring highest financial standards. • All funded programs are thoroughly reviewed for effectiveness and accountability.
How Your Dollars Help Your United Way donation helps advance the common good, improve lives and address critical problems throughout Central Florida. Here are a few examples of how your dollars help: • • • • • •
$1.17 provides one meal for a homeless person. $32 provides a senior with door-to-door transportation to a doctor’s office, medical therapist or pharmacy. $68 provides fun, enriching summer programs that help kindergartners enter school eager and ready to learn. $267 provides financial education for workingpoor families who want to improve their income, savings, credit and financial strength. $555 provides one month of shelter and evening meals for a mother and children who are escaping abuse or homelessness. $1,200 provides 750 nutritious meals and snacks for at-risk, low-income children enrolled in quality after-school programs.