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Helping Families Move Out of Poverty!
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| How your Dollars Make a Lasting Impact | Montgomery County United Way's equation for lasting change is:
The work of over 100 Strategic Investment volunteers + 5 priorities identified for lasting community impact +
Maintaining partnership with 24 Funded Partners and Grantees +
$3.75 Million in donor dollars invested in over 50 programs = Improving over 216,000 lives in Montgomery County.
At the end of March, over 100 volunteers started the six week process of reviewing MCUW Funded Partner requests for funds and visiting agency locations to review programs that fit within MCUW's five priority funding areas. The priorities are: "Moving People out of Poverty", "Helping People Cope with Challenging Situations", "Facilitating Access to Affordable & Quality Health Care", "Preventing and Treating Drug & Alcohol Abuse" and "Providing Temporary Assistance in the Event of a Crisis".
Your investment also funds MCUW services like Success By 6 (early childhood education initiative), Days of Caring (connecting volunteers to those in need of light repairs including home owners and non-profit organizations) and Information & Referral (referring citizens to non-profit Health & Human resources available in the Montgomery County area). |
Entergy Donates $200,000 to MCUW
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Entergy Texas employees donated over $200,000 to Montgomery County United Way .
Presenting the check from Entergy are: (Left to Right) Jeffrey Heidingsfelder, Danielle Scheiner, Terry Shields, Montgomery County United Way President Julie Martineau, Renee Powers, Lora Powers.
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The Mission Northeast |
The Mission Northeast's
new Executive Director Pam Dickson presented an updated report of the 3 year MCUW funded program "Project Independence" to the Responding to Crisis Impact Council at their monthly meeting this week.
Project Independence was a MCUW pilot program that brought The Mission NE and Lone Star College - Montgomery together to offer long term Mission clients the opportunity to expand their educational options so that they could obtain jobs with sustainable wages. The impact that this could have in our community could mean breaking the vicious cycle, of sometimes, generational poverty.
Over 200 students have participated in Project Independence over the term of the 3 year grant. It has changed the lives of their families. Pam Dickson said "We are extremely grateful for MCUW in helping these people with a hand up instead of a hand out." 70% of the people involved in Project Independence have not returned to The Mission NE for additional assistance.
This year, the Creating Independence Impact Council will be investing in similiar programs to "Move People Out of Poverty", the #1 priority funding area for MCUW. Look for additional articles in upcoming MCUW e-news. |
Hispanic Outreach
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For Business and Non-Profit Professionals interested in Immigration Law, mark your calendars for the next H.O.P.E. meeting: Tuesday, 6/29, 10:00 a.m. (new location this month) email: maria@mcuw.org for more information.
Hispanic Outreach is involved with assisting the Deerwood Community develop an Assets Based Community Program. Staff and volunteers attended the recent Deerwood Festival.
Project Historias is coming to a close, the 10 high school girls who were interviewing 10 ladies from Pan American Round Table are writing memoirs to be included in the MC Library Genealogy section this fall. Look for news about the Project Historias celebration in August. |
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Give.
2010 - 2011
Pace Setters
| | Chip Ray, with CB&I and Pace Setter Chair has announced the following companies that will set the pace for the 2010 - 2011 MCUW Fundraising Campaign. Most of these companies will begin their employee and corporate drives in early August and their amounts raised will be announced at the Campaign Kick Off event in August.
Chevron Phillips
Memorial Herman
Woodlands Development
Carlton Woods
Winstead, Sechrest & Minick
Americas Styrenics
Wiesner Automotive
Montgomery County Hospital District
Hubbell & Hudson
Woodlands Chamber of Commerce
CB & I
Montgomery County United Way
These companies start and finish their campaigns earlier in the campaign year to encourage other companies to participate in raising funds for Montgomery County United Way. Last year, Pace Setter companies raised over $800,000.
To find out how to involve your company in MCUW's corporate campaigns, please call Dale Gray at 281-292-4155, ext. 227 or visit www.mcuw.org and click on Giving. |
Advocate.
| | Meet the new MCUW Director of Iniatiatives Rachel Harris who is an Advocacy champion.
She says "The Public doesn't know the power they possess for affecting change. I look forward to providing information so that, together, we can use our voices for early childhood education in Texas."
Part of Rachel's role at MCUW is to manage the early childhood education initiative Success By 6. SB6 has programs in Magnolia and Conroe that ready young children for success in school by offering parent classes and reading programs.
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Volunteer.
The Geezer Squad |  The
Geezer Squad is a self-named group of dedicated guys that have skills with power tools. A few years ago, they were doing volunteer projects through their church to work on homes when they connected with MCUW Days of Caring. The Geezer Squad was connected with a home project recently to repair steps for an elderly Conroe gentleman who is nearly blind. To register your group for a Day of Caring project, call 281-292-4155,ext. 267 or email: vicky@mcuw.org. |
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