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Daisy's reading score improves!

Our Community Impact Partner, Redlands-based Building A Generation's Student Basic Needs Access program, is key in providing families direct support needed so that students can thrive in school. Daisy is one of the young girls they have recently assisted who at the start of the school year had extremely low reading scores.

After the first parent-teacher conference, Daisy's mother, Mary, sought out assistance to help her understand the information shared by her child's teacher during the conference. When the case manager told Mary about Daisy's reading scores, her mother conveyed that she was much more concerned with her ability to provide food or how she could work the extra hours needed to buy her children shoes. The case manager was able to quickly provide support to purchase food, shoes, and seasonally appropriate clothes.  By helping to address her basic needs, Mary was able to focus on strategies to improve her child's reading scores - instead of simply having to worry about providing for her basic needs. Over the next few months, Mary and her case manager utilized additional resources to reduce long-term food insecurities and access after-school tutoring.

During the final parent-teacher conference of the year, Daisy's teacher reported that her reading score had improved significantly, eliminating the need for grade retention. In addition, her teacher indicated that Daisy had blossomed both academically and socially.

Daisy is just one of the many local children and families being helped thanks to United Way's financial support through the Community Impact Grants process. Thank you for your support and helping to make this success possible for children like Daisy!

UPS Volunteers Give local Community Centers a Makeover

We are pleased to announce that Henkels & McCoy has been selected as our August 2011 Company of the Month! 

Henkels & McCoy, one of the largest privately held firms with over 80 locations nationwide, provides project management, engineering, construction, installation, maintenance and training services to utility, commercial, industrial and government customers.  As a large supporter of United Way and the Boy Scouts of America, Henkels & McCoy strives to make a difference in the communities where they do business.

This year, Henkels & McCoy has exceed its goal of raising $50,000 to support United Way and the Boy Scouts of America by $11,000. Henkels & McCoy's Employee Campaign Coordinator, Lisa Saucedo, did an AMAZING job to motivate her fellow employees to give by showing them how easy it is to make a difference in the life of a child. 

Click here to read more about Henkels & McCoy and why they were chosen as the August 2011 Company of the Month!

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