Where Does My Money Go?
United Way puts your dollars towards solutions. Every year, nearly 100 volunteers from the community help us to carefully review requests from local agencies and teachers for grant funding. Together we make wise decision on how to invest you contribution in quality programs and innovative initiatives that address the region's most pressing needs and make the greatest difference in Franklin County.
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.
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.
Since 1995, YOUR GENEROSITY has enabled the UWFC to distribute $1.6 million to improve lives in Franklin County:
- More than $1.2 million in support of local agencies.
- More than $250,000 in educational grants to help Franklin County teachers implement innovative programs.
- Nearly $100,000 in emergency and disaster relief funds.
2007 Community Impact & Educational Grants
The programs funded by United Way of Franklin County in 2007 are listed below. Chances are either you or someone you know has been helped or supported by a United Way funded program.- Addiction Recovery Centers for Men & Women: alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitations
- American Red Cross: disaster relief
- Boys & Girls Club: "Project Learn"
- Boy Scouts of America: "Learning for Life" and Council support
- Care & Share: Food and clothing thru referral from DSS
- Department of Social Services: programs addressing independent living and home mobility aids
- Department of Aging: inclement weather meals, prescription drugs, and AED units for Senior Centers
- Franklin County Library: dictionaries for all third grade students
- Franklin County School System: 17 educational grants across 9 different schools
- Franklin County Volunteers in Medicine: prescription medication program
- FGV Partnership for Children: imagination library
- God's Vision Ministries: bridge builders for change program
- 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
- Pines of Carolina Girl Scouts: camperships for girls
- Safe Space: domestic violence advocacy and shelter
- Town of Youngsville Parks & Recreation: batting cages and pitching machine
- Triangle Reading Service: reading service for physically and visually impaired
- White Level Volunteer Fire Department: self-contained breathing unites
- While Level Rescue & EMS: air lifting bags
