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Giving to United Way of the Bluegrass

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The Community Impact Fund is the most effective way to invest in innovative programs and proven strategies with a single contribution and provides investment in education, income and health priorities. Education, income and health are the building blocks for a good life – a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement and good health.
United Way combines your contribution with others to invest in dynamic approaches and proven programs and initiatives to create lasting change in Central Kentucky. United Way’s direct knowledge of community needs, its ability to identify the most effective agency and community partners along with its regional, volunteer decision-makers ensure that your investment will make a real and lasting difference.

Understanding that no one service provider, initiative, or partnership can address the complex issues, opportunities and needs that face Central Kentuckians, United Way of the Bluegrass invests the Community Impact Fund in support of a broad array of efforts addressing our agenda in Education, Income and Health.
The process of investing in the Community Impact Fund includes careful review by dedicated volunteers from every county in our region. Last year alone, 61 community volunteers donated 875 hours of in person time and countless hours on their own reviewing proposals from our Member Agencies. United Way volunteers carefully invest and then monitor the impact of those investments to make the most positive impact possible with the dollars raised.
Community Impact Fund contributions support programs and efforts that serve Central Kentuckians in the nine-counties serve. United Way of the Bluegrass is an independent, locally-governed nonprofit organization.
It is the only giving option that allows you to join with tens of thousands of others to focus our resources where we can have the greatest impact.

When the economy is distressed, even more people need help. Your gift is even more critical in challenging times. As you consider the choices available to you and your family, we hope you will remember how much your contribution to United Way of the Bluegrass provides help for everyone in our community. Help that improves education, income and health. No single shelter, meal program, or child care center can solve the challenges we face. But each one of us can do something to change our world.
United Way is inviting all of us to give our full attention to the basic pillars that support and sustain the quality of life in every community: education, income and health. Our actions today determine the reality for tomorrow. A tomorrow that will come regardless of the economy’s condition. The decision to give may have been easier in years past, but it has never been clearer.

United Way takes the business of investing and managing your gift very seriously. Roughly 16 percent of funds are used to cover administrative and fundraising expenses, far less than the 35 percent that charity monitoring organizations recommend. (See the Better Business Bureau’s website for more at www.bbb.org/us/charity.)