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Be a hero to a child in need!
Volunteer or Donate to Kidspree and Stuff the Bus
Kidspree: Our 19th Annual Kidspree is on Sunday, August 2.
 Volunteers will help deserving kids shop for much needed back-to-school clothing at Kohl's in San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles. Last year we provided shopping adventures to 250 local students! Donate and help us beat that number. Each child receives a $100 gift card and shops with a caring adult volunteer. We also need help with event set up, check in, and shopping with children. Bilingual and/or male shoppers are always in demand! Fingerprinting is required for all volunteer shoppers at least two weeks before the event and is free thanks to the SLO County YMCA. Visit our website for more information, to donate or to submit the volunteer interest form.  Stuff the Bus: Your business is invited to participate in United Way of San Luis Obispo County's Stuff the Bus! Stuff the Bus is an annual donation drive for new school supplies, which are distributed throughout San Luis Obispo County schools. Our 7th annual event will take place Monday, August 17th-21st at Target, Walgreens, and Walmart locations in San Luis Obispo County. We encourage all local businesses, big and small, to get involved by setting up a drop-off location for supplies in a visible location from August 3rd-17th. Then spread the word to employees and customers about donating supplies. On August 17, bring your collection to any one of our drop-off locations. Together as a community, we can help out hundreds of local children in need! For more information on how your business can get involved contact Leslie at (805)541-1234. |
Money Talks Presents: Personal Finance 101
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 Ryan Caldwell, of Wacker Wealth Partners will be hosting two personal finance workshops this summer for young adults age 16-22. This two hour class is a crash course of our 5 session Money Talks program. Ryan will teach the attendees
about saving, investing, debt management, credit reports and more. The class is free and lunch is included. Registration is required in advance. The class will be held on July 27 and again on August 21, from 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. For more information or to register visit our website.
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 Flavor of SLO pictures are on Facebook!
Did you attend this years Flavor of SLO? Did you want to attend but couldn't? The pictures from the event are now on Facebook. Check them out and see if you are in any of them. Tag yourself in the photos so we can see who attended. You can find the pictures here.
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6th Imagination Library Winner Picked!
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Congratulations to Serenity, and parents Zaira and Micheal for being picked as the newest winners of our Dolly Parton's Imagination Library drawing at Sierra Vista hospital. They are the 6th family to be chosen since we started the contest in January. As recipients of this prize, baby Serenity will receive one new book each month until she turns 5 years old. This program is designed to help children learn to love reading. Also pictured above are long time supporters of the Imagination Library, Marcia and John Lindvall, and United Way staff Rick London and Lily Aanerud. For more information or to donate to Imagination Library visit our website.
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Another Successful Year of MyFreeTaxes.org
United Way of San Luis Obispo worked together with United Way of Northern Santa Barbara county to complete another successful year of MyFreeTaxes.com and VITA- the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. MyFreeTaxes.com is a website where individuals or families with an income of less than $60,000 can file their taxes for free. This year we had 1,195 people utilize this free service. VITA is for families with an income of $53,000 or less. This service allows these individuals to  have their taxes prepared by trained community volunteers. This year we had a combined total of 689 utilize the VITA program. Of the 1,879 that used this two tax assistance programs, the United Way of SLO and Northern Santa Barbara County were able to get back over $4.5 million in tax returns for participants. If you still need to do your taxes or for information on these programs for next year visit our website.
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