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The United Way of Coastal Georgia is officially kicking off its 2016-17 campaign season and invites everyone to come out and support the community at the Campaign and Day of Caring Kickoff at Georgia Theatre’s GTX at Glynn Place Mall at 8:30 a.m. on August 26. The guest speaker for the event will be Kwame Brown. What a great way to start a day and this important community fundraising effort.
The United Way’s ability to meet people’s needs and encourage their self-sufficiency is a key factor in the strength and stability of our community. An excellent way to invest in the community is by an investment made through the United Way. The United Way is able to mobilize many individuals, agencies, and resources to take some of the toughest problems faced by individuals and families in Southeast Georgia.
Volunteers from Southeast Georgia Health System lend a helping hand.
United Way works with 23 partner agencies funding 35 programs in Glynn and McIntosh counties. This impacts one out of four people in the Golden Isles by providing access to education, increasing income stability and assuring better health. United Way invests donor contributions into health and human service programs that address these three Community Impact building blocks:
Education: Partner agencies provide a wide variety of proven services in areas such as alternative education, quality out-of-school time opportunities, quality early learning opportunities, services for at-risk youth and youth development.
Income: Agencies receiving funding in this area help individuals prepare for work, increase their income and save for the future. This funding helps provide employment and adult education, financial stability, housing and homelessness and emergency assistance.
Health: The partner agencies provide services to help children, youth and adults be healthy and safe in their home and neighborhoods. Programs in this area include senior services, treatment services for domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, mental health services, etc.
Agencies are expected to clearly define and achieve measurable outcomes against specific objectives and to demonstrate that they are high-performing organizations that are able to achieve community-level impact.
United Way of Coastal Georgia is working to improve community conditions and create opportunities for a better life for everyone. They mobilize people and organizations from across the community who bring the passion, resource and expertise needed to get things done.
Change starts here. This is a simple statement, yet an inspiring idea. We all believe that people deserve a good life, but not everybody has one. Your gift to the United Way makes positive change possible. United Way supports agencies that help provide opportunities and assistance for low-income community members, by providing a hand up, not a hand-out. Donations fund programs like food pantries and meal distribution, job search support, and disaster services. More than 52,000 people in our community are reached by these services.
United Way’s annual campaign offers an effective and efficient way to support the community vision that Glynn and McIntosh counties be a thriving place where everyone has the opportunity to live a safe, stable and successful life. Their fundraising efforts include Workplace Giving, a Residential Letter Campaign and gifts through the Tocqueville Society.
Leading the campaign is Coastal Bank of Georgia’s President and CEO R. Wayne Johnson, who serves as United Way of Coastal Georgia’s 2016 Annual Campaign Chair. “United Way of Coastal Georgia is an essential part of the fabric of our great community that is better equipped than any to address the pressing issues we face,” says Johnson. “It’s an honor to serve as the 2016 Campaign Chair and have the opportunity to build on the momentum and history that United Way has established with the commitment and support of business and industry in Glynn and McIntosh counties.”
Additionally, Johnson said that he, with other area business leaders, will do their part to support the continued development of area youth, assist in funding United Way service providers, and help with gains in employment and opportunities for individual financial stability.
Johnson has been engaged with United Way since leading Coastal Bank’s workplace campaign, “Wayne is a staunch supporter and an incredibly successful business leader, with a powerful, personal connection to the important work of United Way,” says Virginia Brown, United Way of Coastal Georgia’s CEO and President. “His chairmanship sends a strong message that corporations and their leaders are committed to, and invested in, changing lives. Together, we’re creating opportunities for more stable, rewarding and productive futures for citizens across the region.”
Sea Island, Coastal Bank of Georgia and King and Prince Seafood have stepped up to be the first Campaign Pacesetters. Workplace campaigns and special events begin in August. Support United Way’s 2016 campaign individually, through your workplace, or with your business, to do your part to strengthen this great community in which we live. To learn more about United Way of Coastal Georgia, call 912.265.1850 or visit uwcga.org.
