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Get Ready to Live United!
United Way of the Quad Cities Area
About United Way of the Quad Cities Area
• Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a
quality education that leads to a stable job, enough
income to support a family through retirement and good
health.
• That’s why the United Way of the Quad Cities Area
focuses on Education, Income and Health – the building
blocks for a good quality of life.
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About United Way of the Quad Cities Area
• United Way brings together
people and organizations with the
passion, expertise and resources
needed to get things done.
• You can get involved by giving,
advocating and volunteering.
That’s what it means to
Live United.
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From the time children are born through high
school graduation, United Way is there to make
sure our youth succeed.
Initiatives include:
• Achieve Quad Cities: Community collaboration
to increase the graduation rate by five percent over
ten years.
• Imagination Library: Mails a free book each
month to over 10,000 children birth to age five.
• Operation READ: Volunteers visit over 400
children to get them excited about reading.
• Pohlmann Backpack Project: Over 1,300
children receive a free, age-appropriate book
quarterly along with their backpack of food.
Education
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• We meet immediate needs through the Funded
Programs, which get children ready for school, help
improve their school performance and build
character.
Education
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For families and people on the path to financial stability, we are there to help them become financially independent.
• Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program
• Free tax preparation for individuals and families with a household income of $49,000 or less. Over 6,000 returns completed and over $5 million in refunds.
• We meet immediate needs through the Funded Programs, which help people build skills, gain access to services like rent assistance and help seniors become self-sufficient.
Income
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We work to improve the overall health of our community.
• United Way is working with local partners to identify ways to increase access to youth mental health services.
• We meet immediate needs through the Funded Programs, which improve health, address substance abuse and parenting.
Health
How You Can Get Involved
We are connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable and when people are healthy. But it takes our whole community working together to make this happen.
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Join the United Way Movement in The Quad Cities
atunitedwayqc.org
Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.
Thank you!
United Way of the Quad Cities Area