United is the Way!

Dear Friends,

As we journey through our annual United Way campaign, I ask you to join me in creating opportunities for our neighbors and our community to prosper through your support of the United Way of the Brown County Area.  

Too many households in Brown County don’t earn enough to afford the necessities of life. Current data tells us that 32% of the families in Brown County are at risk of going hungry or homeless. These are families where the adults are working, but it still isn’t enough to cover their basic needs. These families often must make impossible choices, such as deciding whether to buy food, pay for health care, or make rent. And our communities deserve better.

United Way brings donors, volunteers, and community partners together around a focused plan to remove barriers on the path to financial stability, to empower our youth through healthy youth activities, to ensure that no child in Brown County will be hungry over the weekend, and to send children to school prepared with necessary school supplies.  United Way puts books in children’s hands, assists with preparing tax returns for those who request it, and proves that there is no job too small by volunteering to rake leaves or clear a gutter with our Days of Caring.  United, we can do so much more than we can do on our own to help our neighbors land on their feet –and stay there.

But we need your help.  We connect people to resources, and our in-house programming provides the resources they need.  Our partnership with over 20 other non-profit agencies helps fund their programming, and 98% of the funds raised in Brown County remain in Brown County.  Just imagine: if each employed adult in Brown County gave $5 from each paycheck for one year, it would total over $1 million!  I hope you will consider being part of the solution for families in crisis by donating to United Way.