Where Does My Money Go?
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 $1.7 million to improve lives in Franklin County:
- More than $1.4 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.
2008 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.- 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: extrication equipment
- Franklin County Library: dictionaries for all third grade students
- Franklin County Volunteers in Medicine: "Health, Wellness and Prevention"
- FGV Partnership for Children: imagination library (book subscription program for pre-school children)
- Health Department, Franklin Co.: adolescent asthma education
- Happy Camper: camp scholarships for needy children
- Legal Aid of North Carolina: legal assistance for low-income individuals
- Louisburg College: "Adventures in Math & Science"
- 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
- Triangle Family Services: DOSE program (domestic violence offenders sentence to education)
- Triangle Reading Service: reading service for physically and visually impaired
2008 Educational Grants
In 2008 nineteen (19) eduational grants were award to teachers representing eleven (11) of the Franklin County schools. These innovative educational programs that help children succeed and develop essential life skills include the following (school, teacher and project title):
Bunn Elementary
- Wendy Walker: Power On, Mighty Fourth Graders! Power On!
- Elaine Ihrie: Science in a Box
Bunn High
- Jill Massey: All the World's a Stage!
Cedar Creek Middle
- Eboni DuBose: Let's Go Probing Away in Science
- Jason King: Write Right Projection Project
Creative Education Center
- Cheryl DeMent: The Bag Ladies
Franklinton Elementary
- Michelle McGhee: Falcon Student-run Bookstore
- LaTasha Wilder: Environment 911...Recycle...Reduce...Reuse
Franklinton High
- Barbara Jean Howell: It Takes a Village (Freshman Academy Village)
- Lisa Lawrence: Light Up Our World
Laurel Mill Elementary
- Marla Mize: Bulldog BARKS
Long Mill Elementary
- Scott Ring: Printing In Days Gone By
- Patricia Dodson: Nights of Character
Louisburg Elementary
- Mary Sahady: Project Turning Point
Royal Elementary
- Lacy Coley: Connecting Earth, Life & Physical Science Through Microscopes
Terrell Lane Middle
- Katie Tatum: Nano What? Exploring the Micro Microscopic
- Catina Jordan: Looking Good, Feeling Good: From the Inside Out
- Matthew Carter: The Science of Energy Balance: Calorie Intake and Physical Activity
- Chad Moore: To Infinity and Beyond! The Truth Behind Buzz Light-Year
