Consider this: 5.6 million US teens and young adults ages 16 to 24 are neither in school nor working. Many of these "disconnected youth" are simply cut off from the education and career paths that could help them live a good life and make positive contributions to our society and our economy.
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We hope to reschedule the Youth Day of Caring and the Day of Caring for sometime in 2022. We will keep you posted!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Your gift to United Way is more important now than ever. From the start of the pandemic in March 2020, United Way of Gibson County has worked in collaboration with our Gibson County partner agencies and with the Covid-19 Crisis Response Fund of the Greater Evansville Region to ensure funding and resources were available in Gibson County so that vital needs could be met and programs and services could continue.
United Way of Gibson County has also enrolled over 800 Gibson County children ages birth through five years old for our Dolly Parton Imagination Library. These children receive a free book each month mailed to their home until their fifth birthday. When we join our gifts together and invest in strategies designed to advance and support education, financial stability, and good health, we begin to see a larger impact in our community.
Last year, United Way of Gibson County was also proud to be one of the community investors for the start up of the Gibson County CEO program. CEO stands for Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities, an actual credited class for High School Juniors and Seniors. The program includes all three Gibson County school corporations. It is an out-of-the-box, out of the classroom, real-world learning experience, that includes students actually starting real businesses.
Unfortunately, due to covid numbers we have not been able to have any of our Day of Caring and Youth Day of Caring events, but have hopes of being able to get back to those activities in the Spring of 2022.
Without donations from individuals like you, this would not be possible. Donations help sustain
our organization and benefit the community in which we serve. We are counting on your support.
Remember that your gift may be tax-deductible.
Thank you in advance for your support! It takes an entire community to make a difference!
Sincerely,
Jamie Schafer
Executive Director
United Way of Gibson County
Nationally, two-thirds of students are not reading on grade level by 4th grade. That proportion rises to four-fifths for children from low-wage families. Our work in the area of early grade literacy will enable us to identify, fuel and replicate best practices in our local schools.
To be financially stable, working families need housing that is affordable. Today, more than 4 million working families spend more than half of their income for rent and/or mortgages, leaving them particularly vulnerable to eviction or foreclosure if their income is interrupted.
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.
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