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Once again it's time to strap on the skis, sharpen the skates and gas up the snowmobile...it's time for Winterama.
Winterama raises much needed dollars for children and youth programming throughout both counties. For more details click on the link! | | |
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| United Way announces record breaking campaign total! |
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The United Way of Bruce Grey has announced its campaign total for 2009.
$550 000 was raised in the past year for the organization that provides funding to various community support organizations and programs.
Executive Director Francesca Dobbyn says it's tremendous accomplishment to have the final total increase by over 200 thousand dollars from last year -- especially when manufacturing jobs have been lost locally.
Employees at the Hobart plant in Owen Sound -- where there have been layoffs, raised 40 thousand dollars.
The announcement was made at the Bruce Power Visitor Centre near Tiverton -- and for a good reason.
Employees at the site have raised over 290 thousand dollars alone.
CEO Duncan Hawthorne says it's significant contribution -- but they have a lot of employees -- and he believes they recognize how significant the company is in the community.
Bruce Power revamped its payroll deduction program for the United Way in 2009, after years of only mild support for employees.
The slogan adopted was "a dollar a day for the United Way."
The Power Workers Union and Society of Energy Professionals at Bruce Power each contributed 10 thousand dollars.
One of the more unique staff donations came from a group of employees who wanted to disperse of a sizeable cash float they had accumulated over the years in their coffee fund.
Projects employee Previn Nema says many of the original coffee club members no longer work at Bruce Power so it would not have been fair to divide the money among the current employees, so they decided to give the 890 dollars to the United Way instead.
In 2009, the United Way of Grey-Bruce has provided over 17 hundred school backpacks for low income children, funded 20 programs fun by 19 agencies, and spent 67 thousand dollars to help people pay their utility bills. | | |
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| United Way's Winter Warmth Program |
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| | The United Way will once again assist people who are in arrears on their Union Gas bills.
The United Way's Winter Warmth Program pays up to $450 of a household's Union Gas bill.
Applicants do need to meet income requirements as well as be able to maintain the bill once assistance has been offered.
Due to the overwhelming demand of the 2008/9 heating season, the United Way was able to secure a donation of $30 000 from Union Gas for this program for the 2009/10 heating season. The United Way started out with $7 500 in funding last season, and Union Gas contributed a further $13 000 in February of 2009.
The United Way is continuing to work with other utility partners so that the program can be expanded to cover other utilities. Further announcements on this expansion are anticipated in the next few weeks.
Donations to the United Ways Winter Warmth Program are always welcome, and are important as it does allow the United Way to offer support households for other utility companies.
Applicants to the program need to call the United Way of Bruce Grey during regular business hours. Applicants need to have their Union Gas account number ready when they call. Applicants will finalize their application to the program with Grey Bruce Credit Counselling.
With enough notice the United Way maybe able to prevent disconnects, but concerned households are encouraged to seek help when they first realize they cannot cover the cost of a bill.
For more information please call 519 376 1560 |
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United Way of Bruce Grey would welcome you as a volunteer in any of the following positions or capacities. It is volunteer involvement that allows United Ways to succeed and keep administration and staffing costs minimal enabling us to invest more in our community. We seek to involve local volunteers and residents of our service area in both the raising and allocating of funds as well as the governance of the organization and it is this that makes United Ways autonomous where they are located. This is what ensures that United Way's are responsive and as diverse as the community they serve.
1. Board of Directors: Our board of directors are a governance board and employ an Executive Director to supervise staff and see to the day-to-day operations of the organization. This may interest professional people who have 2-4 hours per month to commit to regular monthly meetings and you would be contributing to and observing the local growth and development of a registered charity/public foundation that seeks to become the largest nongovernmental supporter of local human service agencies and programs in the region someday.
2. Committees: the likes of Campaign and Fundraising, Allocations, Media & Communications, Community Direction and Planning could use your input.
3. One-time special events and fundraisers at the likes of tollbooths, parades and things would welcome your participation and you would meet some other great people who are creating a caring community.
4. We also have several co-ordinator positions available that offer hands on experience to further education or career fields. i.e.: Campaign Chair, Volunteer coordinator, Special events co-coordinators for which descriptions are available upon request by contacting us or filling out the volunteer form stating interests. |
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| Mission Statement & Welcome |
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To meet unmet needs in Bruce and Grey Counties
by mobilizing volunteer and financial resources in the common cause of caring.
The United Way is an autonomous organization, which builds upon the strength of volunteers and voluntary action by engaging the whole community for the benefit of the whole community. Governed by a local Board of Directors along with other volunteers and staff, we help to build caring communities and respond to a broad range of human needs on a local scale. | | |
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| | The United Way of Bruce Grey is pleased to recognize Bruce Telecom as a sponsor of it's website. |
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