We care for one another through:

• Providing leadership to identify and solve community problems
• Developing and allocation resources to meet community human service needs.
• Providing assistance to strengthen the health and human service delivery system.
• Enhancing communications to foster meaningful involvement with donors and volunteers.

United Way of the Ozarks serves the following counties:

• Barry
• Christian
• Dallas
• Douglas
• Greene
• Hickory
• Laclede
• Lawrence
• Polk
• Stone
• Taney
• Texas
• Webster
• Wright

United Way of the Ozarks is in the business of helping people.

We do that through resource development, community building, and project management. The local board of directors is independent and it alone establishes policies and determines how resources are distributed. The annual campaign provides continued funding for affiliated member agencies.

In communities across the Ozarks, the lives of thousands of children, adults, and families are made better thanks to the services of United Way's member agencies. Your contribution to United Way gives people hope for a better life. United Way agencies help people learn to read, feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, protect families and children from violence, restore hope after a disaster or illness, and renew faith for a brighter tomorrow.

In addition, United Way provides one-time grants to other nonprofit organizations for start-up expenses, special needs, demonstration projects, and emergencies. United Way also manages several grants and contracts with Community Partnership of the Ozarks.

What Your Gift Can Provide:

• 94 cents per week provides one child to play a full season of soccer, basketball, football or any other sport at the Ozarks Regional Family YMCA
• $1 per week provides a uniform, books, patches and registration for a disadvantaged child for one year with the Boy Scouts
• $4 per week provides an entire year of programming for one girl with the Girl Scouts
• $4 per week provides one Forensic Interview for a child victim at the Child Advocacy Center
• $5 per week provides 325 hot meals from The Salvation Army
• $15 per week provides 109 safe beds a year at the Family Violence Center
• $20 per week provides materials and supplies for two adult learners per year through the Ozarks Literacy Council
• $1,000 annually provides more than 2,000 hot meals a year to children at the Boys and Girls Club
• $2,500 annually provides five patients in need with a strep culture, blood work, chest x-ray, prescriptions, and over-the-counter medications from the Kitchen Medical and Dental Clinic

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Whether you can give a few hours or an extended period of time, the benefits of volunteering are many. You experience new challenges, and most importantly, you help improve the lives of others. Learn about volunteer opportunities with United Way of the Ozarks and our partner agencies and affiliate organizations by contacting Volunteer Coordinator Kim Hopkins-Will at 863.7700 or khopkinswill@uwozarks.com for further information.