United Way
United Way
of DeKalb County
Issue: 15
Dec. 2015
Impact DeKalb Newsletter
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Winter Story time - December 29th at 4 PM

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Grant Opportunities
United Way of DeKalb County is offering Early Learning Staff Training Mini-grants that will be available in 2016. The grants are for a maximum of $500 and can be used to bring speakers and training to staff locally or to send staff to a training. Grant applications will be accepted monthly until all funds set aside for this purpose are depleted. The United Way's vision is to have the best workforce available to our youngest citizens and their families.

United Way of DeKalb County has Community Impact grant funds still available! Health or human services nonprofit organizations serving DeKalb County residents may apply for a community impact grant. Grant requests are reviewed monthly, and special consideration is given to programs targeting United Way's focus areas of Education, Income, and Health.

Applications can be mailed to the United Way office at PO Box 307, Auburn, 46706 and e-mailed to Kirby Cool, Resource Coordinator at [email protected]. An electronic copy and a hard copy are required. Applications are available here: http://www.unitedwaydekalb.org/grants.  
 
Volunteer Spotlight: RSVP
A little girl's eyes fill with tears as she's given a small bag of groceries at our local food pantry.  "Now we get to eat tonight," she weeps.

A young woman and her two small children living in a storage unit are connected to affordable housing with electricity, plumbing and heat.

These are the real life situations staff and volunteers at Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) encounter on a daily basis.  RSVP helps vulnerable people in our community through a number of services: tax preparation assistance, utility support, food assistance, hospice gowns, lap robes, walker bags, cancer quilts, winter coats, backpacks for children and so much more.  Who helps RSVP to provide this life-changing work?  The United Way of DeKalb County does.
Thanks to the United Way, their supporters and more than 150 active DeKalb County volunteers these local families are receiving the basic essentials that many of us take for granted, until they can get back on their own feet.

Marsha Rosenbalm has been volunteering with RSVP for eight years now.  She especially loves volunteering in the food pantry.  She says she has received far more than she has given, because of the friendships she's made and knowing that she's making a difference for her DeKalb County neighbors. "We are all working together to provide a good quality of life for DeKalb County residents. We truly LIVE UNITED at RSVP."


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