February News

Fox Valley

United Way

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	February 2011 Newsletter
	February 2011 Newsletter

Our Souper Bowl Was Even Better than the Other One!

Fox Valley United Way's annual Souper Bowl was a huge success! Held the day before the NFL's Super Bowl, the food-and-money fundraiser aimed to fill the shelves at the Aurora Interfaith Food Pantry and the Kendall County Food Pantry in Yorkville. The results:

Volunteers from Triple Threat Mentoring in Aurora

Shoppers at the seven participating Jewel-Osco stores, the Montgomery Market and Prisco's Fine Foods donated more than one ton (2,650 lbs., to be exact) of non-perishable food and paper items.

That's a 20 percent increase over last year.

Shoppers also made cash donations of $5,167.00, a 23 percent increase.

Thanks to every shopper who participated in our Souper Bowl Saturday, as well as the dozens of Jewel-Osco, Montgomery Market and Prisco employees and FVUW volunteers from the following organizations:

Volunteers from Oswego East High School Interact Club

Oswego H.S.

Church of the Brethren

Yorkville Middle School

Oswego East H.S.

Waubonsie Valley H.S.

West Aurora H.S.

Triple Threat Mentoring

IMSA Bella Students

Waubonsee Comm. Coll.

East Aurora H.S.

Those who rely on the food pantries to have enough to eat are benefitting from your generosity!



The cash donations are especially helpful because the food pantries can leverage each $1 donation into $6 of purchases, which means our generous shoppers helped the two food pantries buy more than $30,000 worth of much needed supplies!

After Hours Ribbon Cutting

Thank you to everyone who attended our After Hours Ribbon Cutting to help us celebrate our new office location. We enjoyed visiting with those who stopped by, and appreciated hearing great words of support from Mayor Tom Weisner. We are grateful to have found a downtown space that meets our needs and enables us to reduce overhead costs.

Special thanks to the Fox Valley United Way Community Events Committee and the following sponsors of our open house event:

Photo by Clix

Chick-Fil-A

Jimmy John's

Leah Renee's Cakes

Clix Photography

Arlene Hawks

The Greater Aurora Chamber of Commerce

If you were unable to attend, please feel free to come by for a visit - we would love to show you around!

Agency Spotlight

VNAA

Visiting Nurse Associations

of America

The Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) is a national association that supports, promotes and advocates for community-based, nonprofit home health and hospice providers that care for all individuals regardless of complexity of condition or ability to pay, ensuring quality care for their communities.

Click Here to learn more about the important work that the VNAA supports in our community!

Give.

Have you begun your workplace campaign yet? If not, let us help you make it the most successful campaign yet! Click Here to view our Campaign Tool Kit! Or contact Denise Blettner at 630-896-4636.

Advocate.

United Way is working to protect human services funding while advancing creative ways to strengthen the sector.

Click Here to read United Way of Illinois' "Notes from the Field" to learn more about United Way's Advocacy efforts in Springfield.

Volunteer.

We have several volunteer opportunities here at Fox Valley United Way. Please contact us if you wish to volunteer your talents to help us make a difference in your community!

For more information, please visit our volunteer web page here!

Save The Date

It's not too early to mark your calendar for the 2011 Fox Valley United Way Annual Breakfast!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pipers Banquets, 7:30 a.m.

We appreciate our wonderful neighbors and print sponsors!