The Salina E-Way for April 2012

	Salina Area United Way
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	The Salina E-Way with Events and Activities for April 2012

Volunteers Needed to Decide

2013 to 2015 Community Priorities

SAUW invites you to be a S.M.A.R.T. Community Improvement Goal Application Reviewer.

This essential role will establish the Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Reasonable, and Timely (S.M.A.R.T.) Community Improvement Goals for United Way for 2013 to 2015.

We are inviting you to be on a review team for one of the topic areas: Health, Financial Stability or Education, to evaluate and score reports. Each team of 10 to 12 volunteers will have 3 to 4 S.M.A.R.T. Community Improvement Goals and Budget Plan Reports to review.

May 8, 5 - 6 p.m. Introduction, Training, Meet Your Team at SAUW

Apply to volunteer by contacting Brenda Gutierrez at brenda@unitedwaysalina.org or calling 785-827-1312.

United Way Makes the Final Four in GSCF Match Madness

We are pleased to announce that SAUW came in third place out of 42 participating charities in terms of total giving and the match from the Greater SalinaCommunity Foundation. "Our goal was to make it to the Final Four and we did!" says Executive Director, Andy Martin.

Our "Team United Way" stats are as follows:

A total of 30 new individual donors to the SAUW endowment
$4,991.40 increase in endowment funds
$1,875 in cash match gifts from the Community Foundation
$200 hourly winning and $100 bonus grants thanks to our donors
$544.60 in support of the Fund for Greater Salina at the Community Foundation

Thank you for helping us achieve our goal.

United We Dine Mondays @ El Atoron

Join us every Monday in April from 5 to 9 p.m. at ,El Atoron, 117 N. Santa Fe, Salina, KS 67401. UWD El Atoron

Early Childhood Forum

Guest Speaker Barry Downing, Wichita, will jump start the round table discussions for pre-kindergarten education. Downing has a strong commitment to under resourced children. Discussion topics include: The Role of Businesses, The Power of Families, and Partners in Early Childhood Education (PIECE).

Held at the Masonic Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided at no cost to attendees; however, donations would be appreciated.

Thursday April 12, 2012
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Salina Chamber of Commerce

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SAUW Survey - April 2012

To help our community learn more about Financial Security in Salina courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security has shared a brief questionnaire to help everyone learn and be more financially stable. This series of questions only take only a few minutes to complete and will provide important base-line data for our community's financial security.

Click here to start this survey.

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