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for times like these.”

resilient nonprofit network designed to provide critical services – food, housing and
utility assistance – going forward.

UWCA partner agencies have answered the community’s call for help in innovative
ways. The YMCA, for example, has trained its staff and cautiously opened its facil-
ities to provide virtual schooling assistance. The Levite Jewish Community Center
has served as a food distribution site. And the Crisis Center, where desperate calls
for help have increased from 2,000 to 4,000 per month, doubled its number of phone
counselors and set them up to work remotely in order to continue 24-hour-a-day
service.

Meanwhile, UWCA’s direct services, such as Meals on Wheels, 2-1-1 Call Center,
Area Agency on Aging, Priority Veteran and Financial & Housing Education, have
risen to the occasion and found new ways to ensure that vital needs of at-risk
individuals are met. Some of those efforts are featured in this annual report.

And in the midst of these unsettling times, even as most of our staff and count-
less area companies have been working remotely and holding virtual meetings, our
annual United Way campaign went on. Once again, the community stepped up to
prove its desire to help those in a need in a very tangible way. In fact, our Tocqueville
Society membership is now the largest in the nation.

United Way is as much an idea as it is an organization. It’s built on the concept
of people rallying together for the common good. It’s about creating cooperation and
synergy to tackle problems that are simply too big to otherwise address. Now more
than ever, UWCA is focused, both strategically and programmatically, on directly
impacting people’s lives for the better and building a stronger community for
us all.

Thank you for your continued support of our United Way mission
and for helping make hope happen every single day.

Drew Langloh, President and CEO