Our phone number is 928-783-0515 and we are located at 180 West 1st Street, Suite B Yuma, AZ 85364

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You can make the greatest impact on important issues facing our community by donating to United Way's Community's Impact Fund. This fund creates long-lasting impacts for those that need it most in our community - children, families and seniors. Your donation to the Community's Impact Fund stays in our community.

Your gift supports programs that help ensure local children enter school with the tools they need to succeed; help ensure local families have the resources they need to remain economically self-sufficient and that they are safe and free from violence; and help our community's members remain active and independent by maintaining their physical, social and economic well-being.

Based on donors' desire to have significant impact on the lives of those most in need, your results-driven United Way has narrowed our focus to ensure that we create long-lasting impact for our community.

Our impact areas are; Health Community, Strong Community, Safe Community and Educated Community.

Growing a Healthy Community: Your investment in a Healthy Community lets you and United Way increase accessibility to healthcare and wellness services, provide meals to the elderly, therapeutic activities and assistance programs for the handicapped and disabled and nutritional food for families.

Growing a Strong Community: Your investment in a Strong Community provide you and United Way the ability to identify, advocate, coordinate and pursue programs that develop people's self-worth, strong values, economic development, drug abuse prevention and youth activities.

Growing a Safe Community: Your investment in a Safe Community provides you and United Way with 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 havens for children.

Growing an Educated Community: Your investment in an Educated Community empowers you and United Way to advance opportunities through literacy, GED preparation, counseling and skills training.

United Way makes it happen for those that need it most through its community impact areas: Safe, Strong, Healthy and Educated.

United Way shows its commitment to our community's children by serving as a strong advocate for family literacy and quality early care and education. The Educated Impact Area works to ensure that our community's children are prepared to enter school ready to learn and succeed. Through this community impact area, United Way has developed the Cradle to Kinder partnership that provides parents and caregivers with the needed tools to enrich all aspects of their children's lives. Through partnership with the Rodel Foundation United Way has provided the Math Achievement Club to local schools. MAC-Ro provides a fun and motivating structure in which students learn mathematics.

United Way also impacts local families. United Way's partnership in the EITC Program of Yuma is an example of the United Way system at work. Through this program, United Way, Catholic Community Services, AEA Federal Credit Union, Chicanos Por La Causa, Housing America, Somerton School District, Wells Fargo, AARP, Yuma Community Foundation and other partners assisted hundreds of families become financially stable.

The Yuma County Health Initiative Partnership works to cover the uninsured in Yuma by creating a voice, collaborating with community and connecting people to existing resources. The coalition has identified barriers to health care coverage for small businesses, conducted community health fairs, small business focus groups and Covering the Uninsured Week activities.

The United Way system provides you with an easy, effective and efficient method for meeting your charitable goals. It offers something unique, a proven method to join with others to identify the human care issues that matter most, develop a plan and get results. United Way brings our community together to do the things that none of us can alone. Working together, United Way creates community solutions that help children and youth succeed, help build strong, safe families and help families be healthy and financially stable.

The focused United Way system offers you an opportunity to meet your charitable goals through payroll deduction - in increments, instead of all at once.

Under our new impact model, United Way of Yuma County changed the name of the agencies we fund from "member agencies" to "community impact partners." This was done to reinforce the partnership model necessary to achieve greater impact and improve the lives of children, families and seniors in our community. No one organization or individual can do it alone.

The community impact partners funded during fiscal year 08-09 have two-year contracts. To ensure greater accountability to you the donor, their funding for fiscal year 09-10 will be dependent on the dollars available and their progress in achieving results and improving lives.

United Way of America provides support services to local United Ways including training, consultation, mediation, national research and assessment tools. United Way of America works with all local United Ways on any issues that impact the public trust and to ensure United Way maintains its role in making it happen for those that need it most.

Each local United Way is autonomous and has its own local volunteer Board of Directors. Local decisions are made based on local community needs.

The Boy Scouts of America, Grand Canyon Council does not receive undesignated funds through United Way's Community's Impact Fund because they did not apply for funding for their troop programs through the most recent Request for Proposal process. There are several local nonprofit organizations that either select not to apply for funding from the Community Care Fund application process or are not selected for funding during the local volunteer Community Allocations Committee process.

However, United Way's Board of Directors does believe that the Boy Scouts of America, Grand Canyon Council provides a variety of programs that enrich the lives of our community's youth. Therefore, donors may designate their contributions to Boy Scouts of America, Grand Canyon Council, or any other local Yuma nonprofit organization should they choose to do so.

Fundraising costs associated with running this year's campaign is 7 percent. The administrative and management cost is 8 percent. Therefore, our total for administrative and fundraising is 15 percent.

This figure is verified in United Way's annual financial statements. The percentage is very reasonable when compared to comparable nonprofits. National monitoring agencies recommend that charitable organizations spend a maximum of 25 to 40 percent of funds raised for administrative and fund-raising costs.

All funds raised in Yuma stay in Yuma. United Way stands by its policy of donor designation. Donors have the right to designate their gift to any IRS certified 501(c) (3) organization of their choice. When donors specifically request that their gift go to one such agency, United Way verifies that it is providing services in Yuma.

Funds for the annual membership dues to United Way of America do not come out of the donations. Proceeds from our annual special events are used to pay our annual dues.

United Way of Yuma County's mission is To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community.

Our vision is to build a caring community where all children and youth succeed, families are self-sufficient, neighborhoods are vital and safe, and all people enjoy maximum health and independence.

Yes, if you itemize. There are certain limitations, so you should consult your tax advisor. United Way will provide a receipt required by the IRS for any donation of $250 or more in accordance with the 1994 tax law. You may also be eligible for an Arizona State Tax Credit of up to $200 when you designate to the Helping the Working Poor Fund. Please consult your tax advisor for details on how you can take advantage of this opportunity.

United Way is run by a diverse, 15-member volunteer Board of Directors. The Board and Finance Committee meet regularly to ensure that every dollar contributed to United Way is spent wisely, efficiently and accounted for properly. United Way of Yuma County is audited annually by an independent auditor.

Your firm sends funds deducted from your paycheck to United Way. United Way, in turn, invests these funds in cost-effective programs through the Community Impact Fund or to an agency that you designate. Funds given to Our Community's Impact Fund or designated to one of the focus areas are allocated to local non-profit organizations through a competitive bidding process to ensure that the best, most-effective organizations receive your funds.

Your payroll deduction stops when you become employed by another company. When you begin your new job, ask for a new United Way pledge form. Many employers provide pledge forms and information about United Way to new employees and transferees. If your new employer does not have a United Way payroll deduction plan, please call United Way at 928-783-0515 to arrange to continue your pledge payment.

No, you are not obligated to pay the balance of your pledge if you become unemployed.

Yes, it's your pledge, and it's your choice! You have several choices when you complete your pledge card. Through Our Community's Impact Fund, you will do the most with your caring by making an impact on the issues affecting our community the most: helping children succeed; building strong, safe families; and helping families lead independent, active lives.

You can also choose one or more Community Impact Areas, and direct your gift to specific issues facing our communities. Funds can be designated to a specific impact area or partnership.

Some contributors choose to direct their gift to an IRS qualified organization of their choice. You may choose to designate your gift to any IRS certified 501(c) (3) organization that you personally care about.

Yes, United Way welcomes this kind of gift. Each year, several individuals and families support critical community services and often derive tax benefits by making gifts of stocks and other securities. Please call the United Way at 928-783-0515. We will be happy to answer your questions and will work with you when you are considering making a gift, or an additional gift, this way.

Yes, many donors wish to continue their support of United Way. One way to do so is to include United Way in your will. Please call Madeleine Coil at 928-783-0515 for more information about a broad variety of planned-giving opportunities.

Many contributors continue to support United Way after they retire, and we hope you will too. The United Way system maintains life long partnerships with donors through the Continuum of Giving program a broad array of giving options including Philanthropic Funds, gifts of appreciated stock, special gifts and a variety of planned giving opportunities. Your generosity of time, resources, and skills is appreciated. United Way wants to continue partnering with you in making a significant difference in the lives that need it most. Through your continued leadership, United Way makes it happen. Please call United Way at 928-783-0515 for more information.

Approximately 85 cents of every dollar contributed to Our Community's Impact Fund or Community Impact Areas are used to create lasting change in the lives that need it most today and for generations to come.

United Way's volunteer Finance Committee and Board of Directors monitor the salary and benefits for all paid staff including the President/CEO. The Board is responsible for ensuring that salaries and benefits are in line with other positions having comparable responsibilities in the community.

Yes. Community Impact volunteers review each Funded Partner's extensive reports and financial audits. Staff and volunteers monitor those partners to ensure that funds are used efficiently and effectively to create lasting outcomes in the lives that need it most. United Way volunteers require their Funded Partners to use client outcomes to measure their success in helping people. Funded Partners report their outcomes on a quarterly basis.

United Way actively discourages any form of coercion in the workplace or anywhere else. Employees and other individuals are encouraged to contribute voluntarily.

Some funded Partners charge fees to clients who are capable of paying for part or all of the services they receive. Often, fees are charged on a sliding scale, based on the client's income. Fees collected help pay for services provided to indigent clients who have no means to purchase services they need.

Does united Way provide funds to individuals and families directly? United Way of Yuma County does not provide funds to individuals or families directly. We do provide referral services to the organizations and agencies that can provide assistance for a variety of needs.

You can live United in a variety of ways. Give, advocate or volunteer to make a difference in our community.

Focus on the building blocks for a better life; Education, Income and Health. Helping children and youth achieve their potential. Promoting financial stability and independence and improving people's health.

When you reach out a hand to one you influence the condition of all.