Did you wake up this morning and have enough food in the house to feed your family?
You are more blessed than the than the thousands of parents in our community who
worry about providing today’s next meal.
They will receive aid from United Way funded programs such as Second Harvest Foodbank, Catholic Charities’ Family Center, and Community Impact
That’s what really matters
If your life was never marred by an abusive spouse or parent’s wrath,
You are luckier than the women and children whose lives are
filled with pain, terror and desperation.
The United Way funded Safe Harbor/Genesis House and Faith House will provide
shelter, hope, and a chance to break the cycle of violence.
That’s what really matters.
If in your senior years you have family or friends to attend to your needs and challenges,
you are more fortunate than the hundreds of elderly and frail whose waking hours know
only loneliness and uncertainty.
The United Way’s funded Council on Aging and Volunteer Guardianship programs seek out people in need, and are there to help 24/7.
That’s what really matters.
If you have savings to tide you over should you ever you lose your job or are in danger of home foreclosure,
you are blessed.
Many in our County find themselves on the street or sleeping in cars each year
enduring poverty’s harsh reality and life’s most depressing emotions.
For them United Way’s funded programs at the Urban League, Nord Center and El Centro are a life line to finding stability and opportunity.
That’s what really matters.
If you can hold your head high, smile and be thankful for what you have,
you are blessed.
But by tomorrow, you or I could be the person with a hearing loss, chronic illness, family emergency, or a disabled child.
That’s when United Way programs become a personal reality and are there for us, tomorrow and every day.
That’s what really matters
It’s not who we are, what we have, or our status that matters.
What matters is that we help one another and leave our community a better place to live
because we lived here.
When you come down it, and in the quiet of our hearts, we know
the only thing that really matters is that we help one another.
