Where Does Your Money Go?

100 percent right here!

United Way puts your dollars towards solutions. Every year, more than 50 volunteers from the community help us to carefully review requests from local agencies and teachers for grant funding. Together we make wise decisions on how to invest your contribution in quality programs and innovative initiatives that address the region's most pressing needs and make the greatest difference in Franklin County.

Funds raised locally stay in Franklin County. The only funds that leave our community are dollars that donors have designated to other United Ways or to agencies in other communities. Therefore, your generous investment in the health and safety of our community through the United Way works to achieve lasting change and produce results that make a difference in the lives of Franklin County residents.

We believe supporting quality programs provided by local agencies is an approach that ensures individuals and families receive the immediate help they need. We partner with those agencies and teachers who provide holistic and innovative programs addressing today's challenges that face our children, youth, neighbors, friends, co-workers, and family members.

Our commitment is to help integrate services and build a system of care that addresses needs from the root cause to ultimate solution. United Way of Franklin County invests your contributions back into the community to address critical needs and produce results through providing grant funds to programs that focus on:

• Aiding families in crisis—ensuring that everyone has access to food, shelter, medical care, counseling, safe harbor and other essentials.
• Assisting classroom education—supporting educational opportunities to help children succeed as individuals and develop essential life skills; and providing support to teachers to enable them to implement innovative programs.
• Building vital and safe neighborhoods—creating and sustaining an environment where everyone is safe, nurtured and valued.
• Helping children and youth succeed—implementing programs that help children and youth become responsible, contributing citizens through education, character building, leadership training and quality childcare.
• Improving people’s health and well-being—strengthening health and human services county-wide to optimize community and individual health and wellness.
• Meeting basic needs and promoting self-sufficiency—ensuring access to preventive and healing services, training and support so that everyone can meet basic needs and increase their self-sufficiency.
• Supporting the aging population—fostering an environment where all older adults have the ability to be self-sufficient and live as independently as possible.

Since 1995, YOUR GENEROSITY has enabled the UWFC to distribute $1.9 million to improve lives in Franklin County:

• More than $1.47 million in support of local agencies.
• Nearly $275,000 in educational grants to help Franklin County teachers implement innovative programs.
• Approximately $100,000 in emergency and disaster relief funds.

2009 Community Impact Program Grants

Programs funded by United Way of Franklin County are listed below. Chances are either you or someone you know has been helped or supported by a United Way funded program. Grants were awarded for $123,000.

• Addiction Recovery Centers for Men & Women: alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitations
• American Red Cross: disaster relief
• Boys & Girls Club: "Smarter Fun in the Summer"
• Bunn Community Outreach: children and family assistance
• Care & Share: Food and clothing thru referral from DSS
• Department of Social Services: programs addressing independent living for the visually impaired, and home mobility aids for the disabled and elderly
• Department of Aging: inclement weather meals and prescription drug assistance
• Epsom Fire and Rescue
• Bunn Volunteer Fire Department
• Franklin County Library: dictionaries for all third grade students
• FGV Partnership for Children: imagination library (book subscription program for pre-school children)
• Happy Camper: camp scholarships for needy children
• Legal Aid of North Carolina: legal assistance for low-income individuals
• NC Cooperative Extension: animal agricultural field day, 4-H program, junior livestock show and sale
• Safe Space: domestic violence advocacy, children's support program, and shelter services
• Centerville Meals on Wheels

A special allocation was given to the Volunteers in Medicine - James O. Hacker Help Wellness Center.

 

2010 TEACHERS GRANTS

2010 Teachers’ Grants Winners

As Judged by the Bright Ideas

Wake Electric teams

(Listed in order by score)

# 3 Creating a Community of Learning – Reaching Out

Franklinton High School, Maria Styers, $400

# 58 Regardless of Age, It’s Never Too Late to Learn

Franklinton High School, Dottie Averette,

Evelyn Crudup, Gloria Kearney, $360

# 60 Digging Up Bones – DUB

Franklinton High School, Winn Clayton, $1,000

# 79 Life Skills Learning Lab

Louisburg High School, Sylvia Rogers, $1,500

# 7 Scolastic Skype!

Bunn High School, Sarah Lewis, $720

# 8 Wilderness Wonders

Bunn High School, Anne Paris, $1,480

# 10 Bunn Productions

Bunn High School, Annette Privette, $1,477.44

#32 Gulliver’s World

Cedar Creek Middle School, Freda Brodish, $1,500

#53 Closing the Gap 2010

Terrell Lane Middle School, Susan Barnes,

Shanyell Parker, $1,426.20

#54 Rock with Me

Terrell Lane Middle School, Sarah A. Lewis, $1,500

# 11 Something on the Inside Working on the Outside

Terrell Lane Middle, Candace Ball, $1,100

# 12 Give the Students Engaging Reading

Terrell Lane Middle School, Charlotte Harris, $1,488.83

# 33 Rock, Rock Planet Rock – Don’t Stop

Terrell Lane Middle School,

Crystal Cofield-Davis, $1,129.36

# 13 Green Brigade – Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

Terrell Lane Middle School, Beverly Austin “Zoe,” $500

# 16 Give Us a Hand – Eye Can Do It Too

Terrell Lane Middle School, Laurie Wood, $500

# 19 21st Century Musicians

Edward Best Elementary, Bryson Finney, $850

#24 Science/Math Day at Kings Dominion

Long Mill Elementary, Michelle Starks, Barbara Stephens,

Jenny Thompson, $1,500

#61 Science Made Fun – Food for Thought

Long Mill Elementary, Amy Loper, $1,100

#64 Dig It!

Long Mill Elementary, Erin McFarland, $1,100.00

#49 “Sense” ability

Bunn Elementary School,

Genevieve Dumoulin-Hilaire, $1,022.35

#50 Friends around the World

Bunn Elementary School,

Elaine Ihrie, $233.20

#65 Feed the Hungry

Bunn Elementary School, Michelle Harris, $810.00

#74 SMART Kids Need SMART Boards

Bunn Elementary, Lisa Barham, $1,211.11

#77 Mastering Math Technology Style

Bunn Elementary, Eddie Hinton, $500.00

#57 The Body Shop

Bunn Elementary, Whitney Wall, $1,215.50

#51 Reading Green

Royal Elementary, Julie Batton, $1,500

#72 Picture Me!

Royal Elementary School, Melissa Pendelton, $280.08

#55 You, Mii, Wii – Get Fit

Royal Elementary, Tonya Brodie, $554.88

#82 Reaching the Stars through Innovative Technology

CrossCreek Charter School, $1,500

Rebecca Wachholz, Rock the Beat in the 21st Century, $1,500

81 grants submitted - $94,356.23

30 selected

Total grants: $31,038.95.