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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.

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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Offers free books to children age 0-5.

Provides grant funding to approved non-for-profit partner agencies that provide programs that serve individuals in need throughout greater Story County.

Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

Provides financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.

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 funds to local non-profit organizations in the Fox Valley area that serve Batavia residents. Grant applications for nonprofits are available on the website in February of each year.

Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

Provides financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.

Provides educational materials regarding safe sleep, tummy time, and bereavement. Also provides safe sleep training for parents, families, healthcare professional, childcare professionals, childcare providers, law enforcement officials, and first responders.

Also offers a safe sleep crib referral program and peer-support bereavement program.

Provides funding for local organizations, including 211 services.

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Provides funds for other local organizations.

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.

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.
Patient advocacy organization serving people with asthma and allergies, aiming to save lives and reduce the burden of these diseases by providing community support, patient and provider education, research, and advocacy. AAFA's comprehensive, evidence-based information and programming promote a better understanding of these diseases to empower patients and providers with knowledge to improve outcomes.

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Medical Information Services
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.
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.
Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

Raises funds that benefit residents through providing opportunities in the areas of education, health and financial stability.

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Offers to serve as a catalyst and partner in improving the health of people in Greater Des Moines, Iowa. Visit website for the Foundation's priorities, application forms, and instructions

Community convener, working with area nonprofits, civic organizations, and other funders to make our community strong.

Funding source for community non-profit programs through the annual United Way Campaign.
Raises funds through annual campaigning, special events, and grants to improve lives and build a stronger community.

Encourages local philanthropy to meet local needs.

Foundation has more than 200 component funds for individuals, families, and non-profit organizations.

Funds include endowments, scholarships, agency and project funds, and donor advised funds. Foundation is working to build strong field of interest endowments in five

- Arts and culture.

- Health and wellness.

-Education.

- Youth.

- Environment. - Jewish education and life.

Provides financial assistance to individuals with disabilities and the agencies that serve them in Jo Daviess. The foundation requires the submission of grant applications in order to disburse funds. Immediate need funding requests may be submitted directly to the Executive Director or the Grant/Gifting Chair of the Hope Foundation of Jo Daviess County.

Requests for grants must be related, but not limited to:

- Health.

- Housing.

- Transportation.

- Education.

- Employment.

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.

Global humanitarian relief organization providing children with health care and immunizations, clean water, nutrition and food security, education, emergency relief and more.