It All Adds Up!
Investing in your community is a lot like investing in the stock market.
You contribute a little from each paycheck toward an investment fund. You find an adviser you trust, diversify your portfolio, and watch to see the results. You know IT ALL ADDS UP.
United Way is like investing in the stock market. When you trust United Way with your donations, you can be assured they will be handled carefully and strategically invested. Your donations will be diversified, balancing both preventative and current needs, right here in the Kearney area.
Will you invest in the Kearney area by making a gift today?
In 2011, poverty, lack of education, and a lack of support added up to create a crisis for Ashley and her daughter, Kaylie. Ashley found herself in a predicament. She had to choose between homelessness or putting her daughter in foster care.
She chose Kaylie. They moved out of her boyfriend’s house and into her car. Lonely and in need of support, Ashley went to church. The church connected her with several United Way partner agencies, including RAFT and Jubilee Center. These agencies provided Ashley a place to live and grow. She got her GED through Central Community College, and Kaylie attended Head Start. She received this help because of people like you who invested in United Way.
Will you donate today to ensure this support continues?
Ashley graduated from the RAFT program after two years. She was hired as a med-aid in a nursing home, and recently joined the medical records department at Kearney Regional Medical Center.
When it came time for the United Way employee campaign at KRMC, Ashley was ecstatic. Now it was her turn to invest back in the community so that other people could receive help like she did.
That is the power of investing in United Way. It all adds up.
Will you become an iPledge member?
There are people just like Ashley and Kaylie in the Kearney area who are counting on your support. iPledge members commit to donating at least $500 per year. As a member, you will receive special recognition and benefits associated with your pledge and create momentum and bring light to change in Kearney.