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United Way’s 2019 Grant Application Process Now Open

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-Information courtesy The United Way of Vance County

The United Way of Vance County grant application process for 2019 is now open.

The local United Way is accepting grant applications now through April 15, 2019, from nonprofit agencies that seek to provide assistance to disadvantaged citizens in Vance and Warren counties in the areas of basic needs, health and education.

Applications are available on the United Way of Vance County website at unitedwayvance.org. Interested agencies may also e-mail unitedwayofvance@gmail.com to request an application.

For those charitable or nonprofit agencies applying for grant allocations, United Way officials ask that agency representatives complete the application in its entirety. Any application that is not complete will not be accepted for consideration for grant funding.

The completed application also must be received in the United Way of Vance County office by no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Properly completed and signed grant applications can be provided through regular mail or by e-mail. For regular mail, send the application to: United Way of Vance County, P.O. Box 1352, Henderson, N.C. 27536. For e-mail, send the application to: unitedwayofvance@gmail.com.

Once applications are received, United Way officials will be contacting those agencies that apply on the status of their application and plans for presentations to the United Way of Vance County Funds Allocations Panel on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at the United Way office.

Anyone with questions about the grant application process may send an e-mail to the address above or call 252-492-8392 and leave a message.

Vance Co. United Way Holding Coat Drive for Local School Children

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-Information courtesy Heidi Owen, Nationwide

Vance County United Way is holding a coat drive for local school children. Please drop gently used or new coats at one of the following donation sites:

  • Century 21 – Dabney Drive
  • Maria Parham Health – Information Desk, Front Entrance
  • Nationwide – Ruin Creek Road
  • Woodforest Bank – Walmart

Please drop coats off by Thursday, November 15 for distribution by Thanksgiving to Vance County Schools.

United Way Sponsoring Coat Drive for Vance Co. School Children

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-Press Release, Vance County Schools

Members of our community are asked to consider donating to the Coat Drive sponsored by the United Way of Vance County for needy children in our public schools!

Donations of gently used and new coats will be accepted through November 15 at Maria Parham Health on Ruin Creek Road, Woodforest Bank at Walmart on North Cooper Drive, Century 21 Country Knolls Realty on Dabney Drive, and The Pegram Agency Nationwide Insurance on Ruin Creek Road, all in Henderson.

United Way officials will work with administrators and counselors in our 15 Vance County Schools to identify children who need the coats for this winter.

The coats will be distributed prior to the Thanksgiving holidays.

United Way of Vance County Yard Sale 4-14-18

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— submitted by Terri Hedrick

Support our United Way of Vance County Yard Sale this Saturday, April 14, 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the United Way office location at 715 South Garnett Street in Henderson. Proceeds will support basic needs of local families. Adult and children’s clothing, children’s toys, bicycles, furniture, household goods and more will be for sale. Come out and get great items at low prices and support our community at the same time!

Please submit qualifying public service announcements for non-profit organizations, and WIZS will publish them online at wizs.com / Facebook / Twitter as well as on 1450 AM and on our live stream.  You may use the online form at https://wizs.com/psas/.

United Way of Vance County Yard Sale 4-14-18

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— submitted by Terri Hedrick, president of the United Way of Vance County

The United Way of Vance County will host a yard sale to raise funds for the local organization to support the needs of citizens in our community on Saturday, April 14, from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the parking lot of the United Way office at 715 South Garnett Street in Henderson.

Our United Way is currently accepting items for donation from local citizens to be sold in the yard sale. Proceeds from the donated items will go to our United Way to support its efforts. Anyone interested in donating items for the yard sale may contact Terri Hedrick at 252-915-9420 or Jane Haithcock at 252-432-3778.

The yard sale is open to the public. Please plan to attend and find some great deals!

United Way of Vance County Is In Good Standing; Moving Office

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— courtesy United Way of Vance County

The United Way of Vance County Board of Directors has been working over the last several weeks to resolve our organization’s financial concerns and get our United Way in a position to once again support the needs of our agencies and our community. The board has taken steps to greatly reduce the operating costs of our United Way and we are moving our office to a new location at 715 South Garnett Street in Henderson.

After the beginning of the new year, we plan to have the new United Way of Vance County office fully operational. We also plan to begin new fundraising efforts, so that later in the year we can renew our grant payments to the United Way agencies in Vance and Warren counties.

We want to assure all of our contributors and our agencies that all funds donated to the United Way of Vance County during 2017 were distributed completely and appropriately. The United Way of Vance County is in good standing financially with all entities, including the United Way of North Carolina and United Way Worldwide. It was not until the beginning of our 2017-2018 campaign, which started July 1, that financial concerns arose. Due to the decline in donations and fulfillment of pledges, we were forced to suspend grant payments to our agencies in August.

The board is confident that the steps taken to streamline expenses and the strategies we have put into place to move forward with fundraising efforts will allow us to begin grant payments to our agencies soon. There are a couple of United Way fundraising campaigns with local businesses going on now and we are ready to assist their representatives in completing their campaigns and securing donations for those in need in our community.

Anyone with questions or concerns about the United Way of Vance County should contact Heather Hughes, board president, at 252-432-2133 or Terri Hedrick, board past president, at 252-438-8702.

Little Free Libraries Pop Up Around Henderson

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by Garry Daeke

FGV Smart Start has started the Little Free Library program as a way to promotion reading for children, literacy for adults and libraries around the community. 

It’s a “take a book, return a book” gathering place where people share their favorite literature and stories. In its most basic form, a Little Free Library is a box full of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and bring back another book to share.

Vance County United Way, through its United We Read, United We Succeed program, granted funds to Smart Start to start this effort. Smart Start will set up four of these libraries in the community.  Smart Start has ample supplies of  children’s books for the libraries, and  local citizens, along with the Friends of the Perry Library, will be assisting with book drives and collections to assist with additional books.

The mission is to promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges, and to build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations.

United Way of Vance County holds unique fundraiser

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Prime parking spaces at some local businesses were graciously donated to the United Way to help with our fundraising efforts for our 3rd Grade Reading Initiative…United We Read, United We Succeed!

Sponsors are:

BB&T

Mast Family Drug Center

Walmart Supercenter (4 parking spaces)

Marketplace Cinema

Skipper Forsyth’s Bar-B-Que

Vance County Schools Admin Services

Chick-fil-A

Passes are $40 each or 2/$60 and are good until 12/31/17.

The passes are available at the United Way office on Dabney Drive.

New passes will be available beginning in January.  If you purchase one now, you can get a discount next year.