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Living United...Together!
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How do you 'Live United?'
Teams of volunteers will come together on April 16th for Community Investment Orientation. These volunteers are assigned to review a group of organizations providing services/programming by impact area. Funds that were raised during the recent United Way campaign are invested back into services that benefit people in the areas of Education, Income, Health, Hunger and Promoting Safety and Well-being. Volunteers from across Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Western Redwood and Yellow Medicine counties work together to conduct site visits of agencies, review program goals and anticipated results and then make recommendations to the United Way of Southwest Minnesota Board of Directors. This is an assurance to donors of the annual campaign that each donation is used as wisely as possible, where it does the most good and that it makes a difference for the people of our area. This is an important way for the United Way of Southwest Minnesota to ensure local community impact. |
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Please join us for Power of the Purse!
This year's event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7th and will be held Upstairs at TK's Steakhouse in Marshall, MN beginning at 5:30pm. Tickets are on sale now! Log onto our website at www.UnitedWaySWMN.org to purchase your ticket (just $35 until May 1st), view a sampling of silent auction items and make your meal selection.
Our silent auction will feature fabulous purses and other unique treasures.
Proceeds from the event will help put books in the hands of young children living throughout our five county area and will help build early literacy and school readiness skills.
Our keynote speaker will be Zoe Francois (www.zoebakes.com), who will have a lively presentation and demonstration of how it is possible to make artisan bread in just five minutes a day.
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Since the United Way of Southwest Minnesota launched the Imagination Library Program that over 200,000 books have been sent out to area children!
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We're WILD About Kindergarten
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All children who attend kindergarten round-ups at twenty-two area schools this spring will receive a special gift from the United Way of Southwest Minnesota. Approximately 850 children will take home a WILD About Kindergarten Bag that contains items to help them practice necessary skills for Kindergarten. Each bag contains a personal dry erase board and dry erase marker, pair of scissors, crayons, a glue stick, letters and numbers matching puzzles, and 'abc' book titled The Mixed-Up Alphabet, a pad of paper and worksheets. An information packet for parents about how to maximize the benefit of the items and activities they can do at home to build school readiness is also included.
Schools distributing WILD About Kindergarten Bags at their kindergarten round-ups are: Canby, Clarkfield Charter, E.C.H.O. Charter, Holy Redeemer, Hendricks, Ivanhoe, Lake Benton, Lakeview, Lynd, Marshall, Marshall Area Christian School, Milroy, Minneota, Murray County Central, RTR, Samuel Lutheran, School of St. Peter, St. Edwards, St. Mary's, Tracy, Walnut Grove/Westbrook, and Yellow Medicine East.
The bags were prepared by the United Way of Southwest Minnesota's Success By 6 Initiative an d were funded by donations to the annual United Way of Southwest Minnesota campaign. Additional help was provided by North Star Mutual Insurance Company of Cottonwood, Henle Printing of Marshall, student volunteers and service organizations.
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Marcy Heemeyer
Executive Director
Since February 2013
Let's connect about how to partner in your community.
marcy.heemeyer@unitedwayswmn.org
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Start Your Engines!
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The United Way logo is proudly displayed on Josh Bonnstetter's car for the upcoming season.
We are proud to have this Slayton, MN resident & racer serve on our 24 member Board of Directors.
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Thank you.
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The United Way of Southwest Minnesota was awarded a $2,000.00 grant from the Midcontinent Media Foundation in support of the Imagination Library program in common communities we both serve. Those communities are: Canby, Porter, Minneota, Taunton, Ghent, Lynd, Balaton, Clarkfield, and Milroy. .
Pictured: Stephanie Cordes, United Way, Jennifer Van Bemmel, Midcontinent Communications and Marcy Heemeyer, United Way. |
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109 South 5th Street, Suite 300
PO Box 41
Marshall, MN 56258
507-929-2273
UnitedWaySWMN.org
United Way of Southwest Minnesota is an independent, local organization working to create lasting change in peoples' lives and the communities in Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Yellow Medicine and western Redwood Counties of Minnesota.
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