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Offers the Financial Assistance project through the Des Moines Register that is administered by Community Action Agencies in the state and is only accessible during a certain time frame each year. Incomplete applications will not be accepted for consideration.

Applications will be accepted around December 1 of each year and will close at the end of January.

Implements annual fundraising campaign, works with community partners to help those most in need, acquaints union members with the community's health and human services, makes referrals to services in the community.

Coordinates an annual community-wide charitable fund raising campaign for local human services delivered through affiliated agency programs. Funds raised in the community are distributed to programs based on United Way focus areas of education, financial stability, and health.

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Disaster Donations Coordination
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations

National office for more than 1,800 local United Way organizations around the world.

Nearly all donation, funding, and assistance issues, as well as many policy decisions are handled at the local level, and questions relating to these issues are best addressed to local United Ways. Type zip code on website to find your local United Way.

Does not offer programs; only refers callers to community-wide programming.

Funds raised in the community are distributed to programs based on United Way focus areas:

- HEALTHY COMMUNITY: Invests in strategies that promote access to preventive and ongoing healthcare, recovery, and wellness supports across the lifespan. This includes maternal and child health, substance misuse prevention and recovery, and partnerships with CHAD agencies that deliver essential health services.

- YOUTH OPPORTUNITY: Focuses on ensuring every child and youth has access to equitable opportunities for growth, learning, and success. Strategies include childcare and early childhood education, in-school, after-school, and summer learning, youth literacy development, college and career readiness, and youth behavioral health.

- COMMUNITY RESILIENCY: Strengthens community resilience by ensuring individuals and families can meet their most basic needs while building pathways to stability. Strategies include homeless outreach and emergency shelters, housing stabilization through emergency rental and utility assistance and transitional living assistance, disaster relief and recovery, food access, and victim safety and recovery.

- FINANCIAL SECURITY: Focuses on increasing economic stability and upward mobility for individuals and families. Strategies include adult education and literacy, job training and career pathways, and financial education and coaching.

Brings community leaders and organizations together to identify and solve the communities' human service problems. Directs funds so that twenty programs and initiatives can provide a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
Partners with individuals and families, businesses and nonprofits, to create and grow charitable gifts that allow donors to address the region's most promising opportunities and pressing needs through grants and scholarships.

Funding organization for Grundy County. Does not provide direct services but coordinates donations and makes grants to other organizations in the community.

A non-profit charitable organization in Marshall County supporting 32 programs within 28 health and human service agencies in Marshall County. Can also provide information and referral to people seeking services. Offers volunteer opportunities and accept donations from the public in support of local agencies. A Foundation is also available for those wishing to make a perpetual legacy gift to the community.

- Assists individuals, businesses, and other non-profit organizations to establish permanent endowment and temporary funds, through gifts and bequests, within the confines of one large foundation.

- Foundation funds are used to provide grants to non-profit organizations and scholarships to students within the Fox River Valley, including the Greater Aurora Area and the Tri-Cities.

Provides grant funding to approved non-for-profit partner agencies that provide programs that serve individuals in need throughout greater McHenry County. These programs cover four key impact areas:

-- Community Resiliency

-- Healthy Community

-- Financial Security

-- Youth Opportunity

Brings people and resources together to create lasting change and positive impact for the community. Volunteers and issue-focused experts work with the organization year-round to help assess the community's most pressing needs and distribute resources to programs that will positively impact the area. Organizations must apply for program funding.

Works to raise funds to help meet the funding needs of community organizations and allocates funding to a number of different non-profit agencies. Business contributions accepted.

- Assists individuals, businesses, and other non-profit organizations to establish permanent endowment and temporary funds, through gifts and bequests, within the confines of one large foundation.

- Foundation funds are used to provide grants to non-profit organizations and scholarships to students within the Fox River Valley, including the Greater Aurora Area and the Tri-Cities.

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Scholarships
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations

Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

Financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.

Funding source for local health and human service agencies improving lives in education, income, and health as well as basic needs. Provides financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.

Provides grants to area programs and agencies that focus on building economic mobility, fostering childhood success, improving access to healthcare and supporting safety net services.

Grant funding for non-profit organizations seeking charitable gifts to build permanent endowments, making grants in response to community needs, and providing services that will help shape the well-being of Siouxland.
Provides resources to expand affordable housing choices in Polk County. Both for-profit and non-profit agencies that provide housing to low-income people may apply for funding. PLEASE NOTE: Does not serve individuals directly.

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Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Housing Development
Funding

Provides public foundation established to address the needs of girls and women in the Greater Des Moines area. Lead community improvement by assuring the well-being of girls and women through education, grant-making, and philanthropy.

Provides services, expertise regarding community needs, strategic investments, grants and support to nonprofits, and leadership on important community issues and opportunities.
Community fundraising and special events.

Community impact grants for nonprofit education, income, and health programs.

Non-profit management and technical assistance.

Volunteer leadership development.

Community problem solving and assessment.

Husker Harvest Days food drive each fall.

Funds 2-1-1 which provides information and referral for Nebraska and Iowa.

Works to build trustworthy collaborations, facilitates the creation of common goals, and equips people and organizations with a shared network of resources.

Focuses on solving problems within the community related to housing and homelessness, youth engagement, human trafficking, and unity and equity.

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Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Charitable organization, administered by United Way of the Midlands.

Supports the shoe and clothing fund through Omaha Public Schools and Holy Family Door Ministry, as well as emergency financial assistance, distributed through various community agencies.
Funding source for local health and human service agencies.