Growing a Healthy Community:

Your investment in the Healthy Community increases accessibility to healthcare and wellness services provides meals to the elderly, therapeutic equipment and assistance programs for the handicapped and disabled and nutritional food for families.

• Increase the number of innovative programs-services employing evidence based health promotion/disease prevention strategies
• Advocacy for sustainable systems change that increase accessibility to healthcare and wellness services by unserved or underserved populations
• Strategies that foster community education, consumer choice and empowerment and individual responsibility

Growing a Safe Community:

Your investment in the Safe Community provides you and the United Way the ability to deliver emergency services. Together we can help shelter domestic violence victims, provide temporary disaster assistance, and provide disaster preparedness training, transportation and safe haven for children.

• Increasing the number of families who are safe and free from violence
• Promoting advocacy for sustainable systems that increase accessibility to quality violence/abuse shelters and services

Growing a Strong Community:

Your investment in the Strong Community lets you and the United Way identify, advocate, coordinate and pursue the development of peoples self work, strong values, economic development, drug abuse prevention and youth activities.

• Promote advocacy for sustainable systems change that increase accessibility to quality childcare, youth activities, and substance abuse recovery support after residential treatment.
• Strategies that foster community education, consumer choice and empowerment and individual responsibility.
• Increase number of innovative program-services employing evidence based practices in supporting community Childcare, Youth activities and substance abuse recovery and support after residential treatment

Growing an Educated Community

Your investment in the Educated Community empowers you and the United Way to advance opportunities through literacy, GED preparation, counseling, and skill's training,

• Advocacy for sustainable systems change that increase accessibility to adult literacy programs, early learning activities, job skills training, educational opportunities, and parenting skills programs.
• Strategies that foster community education, consumer choice and empowerment and individual responsibility
• Innovative program services employing evidence based practices supporting an educated community.

United Way of Yuma County is a recognized leader in the development and investment of charitable contributions and resources.

Your United Way contribution is an investment in your community. We're inviting you to contribute to the community priorities.

• Growing a Healthy community
• Growing a Safe community
• Growing a Strong community
• Growing an Educated community

The United Way Impact agenda helps focus the efforts of our community. The agenda has been set by a diverse group of people and organizations that are dedicated to making a difference in people's lives. The work of volunteers, and the energy and resources of the community are targeted in areas where that can have the greatest results.

Your contribution is invested carefully and systematically in programs that work. We have a great responsibility to make sure your contribution is invested in the most effective way possible.

United Way is your partner to help your caring count by:

• Achieving measurable community change
• Providing information and research on issues you care about
• Respecting your right to choose to whom your gift will help
• Delivering consistent customer service at all points of contact
• Thanking you and appreciating your gift

Your United Way investment, because it is magnified by the investment of others, has the power to bring about changes that matter in your community. When you contribute, you help more than one person or one charity. United Way of Yuma County is the collective power of people working toward long-term solutions, not short-term fixes. Through strong partnerships with volunteers, local business, government and organizations, United Way of Yuma County accomplishes what no one else can do alone. The real power to improve your community is from investing in United Way.

Help us inspire hope and create opportunities.