Reviewing 2013

Since last July….

We coordinated 756 volunteers for RAGBRAI.

We collected over 1,300 pounds of fresh produce at a Farmers’ Market.

HACAP continued the project and collected another 1,300 pounds.

We also talked with over 500 people about our Women’s Leadership Initiative at a Farmers’ Market.

We added 8 Loaned Executives to our team.

We were voted Best Charity by CBJ readers!

We kicked off our campaign at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. We were the first group to do

an event in the Grand Hall.

We brought together organizations to create a video that showed the road we have traveled.

Marc, Cathy and Ron helpedtell our story.

Together we can complete the puzzle.

The Blue Man helped Raining Rose with its Pacesetter Campaign.

Pacesetter Raining Rose raised $33,145.

Pacesetter Skogman Companies raised $50,018.

Fall 2012

We had great sponsors for our Leadership Giving Society events!

Our Sinclair event was held at the Bairds’ house.

Jill Hockaday, a long-time United Way supporter,

shared with Sinclair members how she received

services at Foundation 2.

The Young Leaders hosted an event and heard from long time donors on why giving is

important.

Sondra Shaw-Hardy spoke at the Women’s Leadership Initiative Luncheon about women

and philanthropy.

We met with young professionals at the Next Gen Summit.

Art Staed, Representative in the Iowa House, stopped by for a tour of our

2-1-1 facilities!

We held our first Condition of the Community Event – Building Tomorrow’s Workforce.

We learned that it takes a wage of $18.08/hour for a single parent of

one to meet basic needs.

We awarded 3 campaign prizes!Marci Wooff, who works at CRST and has given to United Way for 27 years, won the October prize – a refrigerator donated by Whirlpool.

Jake Zoss, from Cargill, won the September prize – a Beautyrest Black Mattress Set donated

by Smulekoff’s.

Mary Cummings, Grant Wood AEA, won $2,500 worth of gas gift cards

from Hawkeye Convenience Stores.

After its September 2011 implementation, KPACE has helped 67 students receive training.

Jeri, a KPACE student, told her story about earning her GED and how that opened the door to

additional training.

We participated in the first Giving Tuesday.

RED Ahead was able to reach 803 children in 2012.

Winter 2012

Ron was caught speeding…

…because he was looking at this billboard.

Kelly Mulford, a Quaker Shipping 20 Powerball winner, announced at a news conference that he was donating $75,000 to

United Way.

We honored 22 local middle and high school students at our

Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon.

United Way 2-1-1 spent 1,038 hours scheduling tax appointments, a service valued at more than $25,789.

Over 122,000 donors gave more than $10 million.

Amanda Young spoke about her child’s experience at Play & Learn.

Wayne is able to stay in his home because of help he receives from Aging Services.

We even had Dateline NBC coverage at our Campaign Celebration!

Ron Olson, 2013 Campaign Chair,

met Flat Ron!

Thank you to our award winning company coordinators who helped with the campaign.

Companies that had 100% participation Aging Services, Inc. Auto-Owners Insurance Bankers Trust Benton County Volunteer Program Bosch Financial Catherine McAuley Center Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust Families, Inc. Holmes Murphy & Associates, Inc. Honkamp Krueger & Co., PC. Kids First Law Center Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley

Northwestern Mutual Financial/Zach Group Ohnward Bank & Trust Rural Employment Alternatives Shive-Hattery, Inc. Shuttleworth & Ingersoll PLC Skywalk Group Specialty Blending Company The Salvation Army TrueNorth Companies United Way of East Central Iowa University of Iowa Community Credit UnionVolunteer Services of Cedar County

We hosted a virtual volunteer fair!

We hosted our second Condition of the Community event –

and had over 100 organizations come together to discuss

Adverse Childhood Experiences.

National experts, Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter

spoke on this topic.

The event was rebroadcasted by KCRG 9.2!

Spring 2013

We had 170 people gather to honor local volunteers in our community.

Monica Soto, client at the Catherine

McAuley Center shared her

experience with having a

volunteer teach her English.

Over 54,700 volunteer hours have been donated by our Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP).

Day of Caring•1,100 individuals • 53 companies • 45 different organizations • Over 118 projects• 5,000 hours • Volunteer impact: $110,700

Our website received a national award.

We achieved a 4-star rating for sound fiscal management and commitment to

accountability and transparency.

And onto next year…