Monthly news & updates
December| 2022
Friends of Friends Fighting Hunger
Support your local Weekend Feeding Backpack program and food shelf by Donating.
Food Shelf Information
Open Arms
Open Arms is a nonprofit organization based out of South Minneapolis that prepares & delivers medically-tailored meals to folks living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, MS, ALS, ESRD, CHF, and COPD. While our traditional service area is the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, we are slowly expanding into greater MN!
Currently, we have funding to ship up to 21 meals weekly to anyone aged 18-59, who lives in Northwest Minnesota (Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington, Pope, Polk, Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Traverse, Wadena, or Wilkin county), and is experiencing food insecurity. If you or someone you know would benefit from these free-of-cost meal deliveries, please contact our client services team at 612-767-7333! We can answer any questions you have, and send you the application form today!
STORY TIME
Storytime is a special, monthly addition United Way started to bring awareness to the Dolly Parton Foundation's Imagination Library Program.

Sponsor a child today for $30 a year or $150 for the life of the program (5 years).
Put books in children's hands today!

Click to hear the STORY


Premier Sponsors
HOME FOR GOOD KITS
Bremer Bank has continued its support with United Way in creating "Home for Good Kits".

These kits are filled with home essentials for those who are moving from homelessness to permanent housing. United Way partners with Mahube-Otwa and Someplace Safe on distributing these kits into our communities.

Thank you for all your support
Poverty in Rural Minnesota

Ms.Krueger's middle school REACH students were learning about poverty in Otter Tail County and reached out to United Way for details. Together with our partner program Mahube-Otwa, we provided information and stats to the students on what poverty looks like in rural Minnesota.

As they learned about poverty part of their assignment was coming up with a project that they could give back to the community. The class applied for a grant to help with supplies to make tie blankets. These blankets will be paired up with our Home Kits from Bremer Bank.

Thank you to all our wonderful partner programs, donors, volunteers, and our students.
VOLUNTEERS
Mrs. Enderson's students (Fergus Falls Public Schools) spent time at the United Way office labeling books for our Prescription for Reading program. A big THANK YOU to these students.

Prescription for Reading promotes early literacy and school readiness by making it a part of pediatric primary care visits from birth to age 5. Women United supports Prescription for Reading at Sanford Health locations in Parkers Prairie and Pelican Rapids. Perham Health locations in Perham, New York Mills, and Ottertail. Tri-County Health Care locations in Henning, Wadena, and Ottertail.
Lake Region Health Care locations in
Fergus Falls and Battle Lake.
FARWELL
Please help us by saying "Thank You" to our retiring board members.
Each one of them brought a unique perspective to the team. They will all be missed.
Jackie Hendrickson, Valmet Flow Cont. Hendrickson has served the United Way Board of Directors for the last six years. Hendrickson brought a wealth of knowledge and fundraising to the team.
JoAnn Thompson, Otter Tail Power
Thompson has served the United Way Board of Directors for the last six years.
Thompson provided expertise in personnel.
Gary Sellman, Mid-Central National Bank
Sellman has served on the United Way Board of Directors for the last six years. Sellman has a longer history with United Way (UW) than six years as he guided the Wadena County UW and led the efforts to merge our two Counties together.
Pat Sjolie, Perham Health
Sjolie has served on the United Way Board of Directors for the last three years.
Sjolie brought enthusiasm toward the campaign and encouraged others to participate in the United Ways mission.
$375,000 GOAL
We're at $311,000 of goal
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