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Community Foundation provides leadership by financially supporting local nonprofits through grants and building the capacity of nonprofit organizations through training opportunities.

Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

Provides financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.

Referrals for individuals to community health and human service agencies.

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.

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.

Connects volunteers with programs, donors of all types, as well as donations of all types to programs and agencies. Provides comprehensive information and referral service to the community, an education program on human services available in the metro area, and information on volunteerism.

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Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement

Offers a place for individuals, families, businesses, and organizations to invest in the Muscatine County community. Disperses money to any number of different causes through one place. Donors can give to any 501c3 or government entity, avoiding administrative hassle and fees of family foundations.

The Grinnell United Way is a completely volunteer-based organization that is helping build a stronger and more supportive community by partnering with local non-profits that share a common goal of developing solutions for dealing with education, financial, and health hardships.

Offers free books to children age 0-5.

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.

Provides fundraising to support local programs and projects to enhance the community and future for the children of Freeport.

Community Mental Health Funding Alliance and the local mental health authority in the south Kane County area. INC is a unique partnership of seven township community mental health 708 boards. After passing a referendum for collection of a mental health tax, each township levies this tax upon recommendation of their 708 board. The levies are combined to maximize planning and funding for the residents in all seven townships for mental health, developmental disability, and substance abuse services.

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Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Mental Health Associations

Collects and distributes funds to agencies in various communities in southern Kane and Kendall Counties.

Also provides information and referrals to and about United Way funded agencies.

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
Performs periodic needs assessment, yearly campaign for non-profit programs provided by partner agencies, provide management training for non-profits, provide small grants for programs, and coordinate community services.
Coordinates an annual community wide charitable fund raising campaign for local human services delivered through affiliated agency programs.

Provides endowments and donor services, stewardship, grant making, and community initiatives to organizations within DeKalb county.

Grants are awarded in the areas of arts and culture, community development, environment and animal welfare, education, health and human services, and nonprofit capacity building.

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.

Provides a philanthropic organization that provides financial support to qualifying organizations that are devoted to education, economic growth, and community development.

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
Provides community awareness and funding for non-profit agencies. Volunteer committee evaluates funding requests, reviewing their budget and financial needs, as well as interviewing representatives from each agency. Based upon the perceived needs of all applicants, this committee will recommend member agencies for funding to the United Way of Mahaska County Board of Directors.
Conducts a community campaign once a year. The campaign funds are allocated to area not for profit agencies that provide services to the community.
Advocates and volunteers to create social change and improve lives.

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.

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.

Raises funds via workplace giving for member health charities.

Public education on behalf of member agencies.

Information and referral.

MEMBER CHARITIES:

The ALS Association

Alzheimer's Association Nebraska Chapter

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Nebraska

American Lung Association in Nebraska

Angels Among Us

Arthritis Foundation Nebraska

Autism Action Partnership

Blood Cancer United

Brain Injury Association of Nebraska

Breakthrough T1D Nebraska and Iowa (Formerly JDRF)

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, Nebraska/Iowa Chapter

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Nebraska Chapter

Epilepsy Foundation Nebraska

Heart Heroes, Inc.

March of Dimes, Nebraska and Western Iowa Market

National MS Society, Mid-America Chapter

Nebraska AIDS Project

Nebraska Chapter of the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation

Nebraska Health Care Foundation

Nebraska Hospice and Palliative Care Association

Nebraska Kidney Association

Susan G. Komen

Team Jack Foundation

United Cerebral Palsy of Nebraska