Everyone is familiar with the United Way, a national non-profit with 1,800 branches across the US that help facilitate the funding and management of various community organizations and programs.
Here in Niagara County the United Way partners with groups like Big Brothers/Big Sisters; the Boy Scouts; the Girl Scouts; YWCA; YMCA; Family & Children’s Services and a dozen other organizations. You can learn about the local United Way online at: http://www.uwgn.org/
The United Way is known for teaming with employers and their employees to conduct fund drives and offer a venue through which people can contribute in other ways, including volunteerism.
This September, we will have one of the annual fundraising campaigns here – our first of many - hoping to emulate the success of local companies like Delphi, the Seneca Niagara Casino, and Wegman’s.
In the meantime, we will lend a hand in some of their other endeavors.
First on the list is a food drive.
Beginning Wednesday, May 1st and running through Friday, May 17th we will have a box located just in the factory where donations of non-perishable foods can be placed (please no glass jars).
This food drive is extremely important as it will be used to stock food banks and community food pantries across Niagara County.
Most people donate to food drives at the holidays thinking it’s the most important time of the year. It’s important, but the need is even greater at this time of the year because school lets out in June and families who utilized the free meal systems at public schools need some way to keep their families fed.
So, please help and donate what you can – it will have huge impact in homes and neighborhoods across the Niagara Frontier.
Here in Niagara County the United Way partners with groups like Big Brothers/Big Sisters; the Boy Scouts; the Girl Scouts; YWCA; YMCA; Family & Children’s Services and a dozen other organizations. You can learn about the local United Way online at: http://www.uwgn.org/
The United Way is known for teaming with employers and their employees to conduct fund drives and offer a venue through which people can contribute in other ways, including volunteerism.
This September, we will have one of the annual fundraising campaigns here – our first of many - hoping to emulate the success of local companies like Delphi, the Seneca Niagara Casino, and Wegman’s.
In the meantime, we will lend a hand in some of their other endeavors.
First on the list is a food drive.
Beginning Wednesday, May 1st and running through Friday, May 17th we will have a box located just in the factory where donations of non-perishable foods can be placed (please no glass jars).
This food drive is extremely important as it will be used to stock food banks and community food pantries across Niagara County.
Most people donate to food drives at the holidays thinking it’s the most important time of the year. It’s important, but the need is even greater at this time of the year because school lets out in June and families who utilized the free meal systems at public schools need some way to keep their families fed.
So, please help and donate what you can – it will have huge impact in homes and neighborhoods across the Niagara Frontier.
