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Meeting Basic Needs, Creating Lasting Change |
Growing, healthy communities ensures citizens can meet their basic needs, youth have opportunities to grow into responsible adults, and seniors live with honor. Strategic investment of your donations maximize our community's ability to protect our neighbors when they are vulnerable, while addressing the underlying factors that put people at risk.
"UWAC provides support through our community partners for people - any of us - when we become vulnerable," explains Sherry Browder, volunteer & Vice President of Fund Distribution. "And we are working to create lasting change by addressing the root causes that place people at jeopardy."
Trained and experienced volunteers weigh the relative needs of immediate crisis (i.e.domestic violence) and longer term approach (i.e.youth mentoring) in determining program allocations.
"It's a balancing act," Browder continued. "Services need to be available now, and we need to invest in programs which prevent problems in the future."
Volunteer leadership is the key, and fortunately, UWAC has enjoyed 50 years of high quality, compassionate volunteer leadership.
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Maximizing Human Abilities...
That is what Emory Valley Center has done for over 50 years. We offer an excellent mail center for the surrounding counties. Our services include:
- Labeling
- Stapling
- Collating
- Sorting
- Copying
- Folding
- Postal Preparation
- Inserting
- Stamping
- Local pick up and delivery
The rates are competitive and a steppingstone for the individuals we serve. Our success is heightened by the support of our local businesses and surrounding industries. Emory Valley Center provides enclaves for the community as well. Enclaves consist of two to five individuals providing: custodial services, assembly, mail route/ delivery, and other routine office or industrial tasks. Is there something around your business that may seem to be ongoing and not cost effective to continue paying overtime for? You might just give an enclave a try.
In the mail center adults with developmental disabilities get their first experience at competitive employment, which can lead into an employment opportunity in our community. We offer extensive on the job coaching as well as ongoing contact to ensure success.
Some things to consider when sending a large mailing or hiring on new staff:
- Emory Valley Center can offer a dependable, cost effective source of labor
- Emory Valley Center can offer an alternative source of temporary labor
- Emory Valley Center is prompt on estimate costs and delivery of each and every work assignment
- Subcontracting services eliminates the need for your company employees to do repetitious and labor intensive jobs
- Emory Valley Center offers quality workmanship guaranteed
To discuss a project, schedule a tour, or for an on-site consultation at your location, call (865) 483-4385 ext 127 Andrea Johnson, Vice President of Operations.
Emory Valley Center is a UWAC Community Partner addressing the Mental Health needs in our community. For more information, please visit: Emory Valley Center
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Thanks a Million!!!
In a vibrant community, citizens commit to each other. Anderson County demonstrated just that this year - your contributions enabled UWAC to invest over $1,000,000 for our common good for 2008. Our 33 community partners are grateful to you, the donor, for your faith in them. A special thanks to the 50 volunteers responsible for developing recommendations for the funding levels of our community partners. They work diligently to ensure your donations are invested in strategic and compassionate ways. (Please note, UWAC honors donors requests sending significant funds to other United Ways across the US and budgets for pledge loss in addition it's 16% operational costs.) |
Jimmy Bouchard places third the Boys & Girls Club of America's State Youth of the Year Honor. Jimmy, center, with representatives of the Tennessee Titans. |
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Dawn Willis of Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace donates nail gun to Andy Owen of GooD DeeDs of Oak Ridge. | |
Many, many thanks to University of Tennessee's MBA program, Faculty Advisor Glenn Swift, and UT MBA students Michael Mastrandrea, William Ambrose, Fan Yang, and Edward Davenport for the nearly 200 hours of consultation. The MBA's Innovation and Entrepreneur class provided invaluable insight and recommendations to UWAC on how to excel our transformation to a more potent, effective and efficient community change agent. More will be shared in future newsletters. | |
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Sincerely,
United Way of Anderson County
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