LLCC’s United Way campaign runs through tomorrow, and there’s still time to participate! Make your gift on the LLCC United Way donation page. PLEASE NOTE: Use this link instead of the QR code on posters.
Today, we’ll focus on how United Way of Central Illinois focuses on financial stability: through supportive housing, work skills support and financial literacy programs.
Last year, United Way of Central Illinois helped 98% of program clients maintain housing with grant partners:
Helping Hands of Springfield
Memorial Behavioral Health
MERCY Communities
Senior Services of Central Illinois
Springfield Urban League
Wooden It Be Lovely
Also, Financial literacy workshops and FreeWill, a free and easy way to write a legally valid will.
LLCC’s United Way campaign continues through Friday! Make your gift on the LLCC United Way donation page. PLEASE NOTE: Use this link instead of the QR code on posters.
Today, we’ll focus on how United Way of Central Illinois focuses on health.
Last year, United Way of Central Illinois helped 400 seniors access health care through medical transportation with grant partners:
Lutheran Child and Family Services
Senior Services of Central Illinois
SIU Center for Family Medicine
Springfield Public Schools
Springfield Urban League, Inc.
Also, United Way partners with SingleCare and has helped over 39,000 people in our community save more than $3.4 million in prescription drug costs.
LLCC’s United Way campaign is in full swing! Make your gift on the LLCC United Way donation page. PLEASE NOTE: Use this link instead of the QR code on posters and table tents.
Today, we’ll focus on how United Way of Central Illinois focuses on education: helping children prepare for kindergarten, stay on track and graduate with a plan for their future.
Last year, United Way of Central Illinois helped 92% of children in summer programs grow their math skills through grant partners:
LLCC’s United Way campaign kicks off today with an opportunity for you to help local agencies who help those in need in our community. Make your pledge on the LLCC United Way donation page.
Today, we’ll focus on how United Way of Central Illinois helps people with basic needs: providing emergency food, shelter and provisions when needed most.
Last year, United Way-funded agencies provided over 425,000 meals and 29,000 nights of shelter through grant partners:
Catholic Charities
Contact Ministries
Helping Hands of Springfield, Inc.
Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery
Senior Services of Central Illinois
Sojourn Shelter and Services
Also, wherever you are in life, you never know when a friend, loved one, co-worker, student or even you may need help. Last year, 4,000 people in our community turned to 211 for help. Funded by United Way, 211 is the number to call 24/7 to reach someone to connect you with community resources during your time of need.
Donate today!
If you have any questions about the LLCC United Way campaign, please email lynn.whalen@llcc.edu.
Together, we help people in need. Together, we create better tomorrows.
LLCC will officially launch its annual United Way campaign Monday, Oct. 23, although the online giving form is open now. Please consider a gift to United Way of Central Illinois.
United Way works to address the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of every person in our community. Your gift will be spread among local social service agencies, or you can designate your gift to one or more favorite charities.
LLCC supports United Way and makes payroll deduction available to employees. You may also make an outright gift via credit card or check.
Learn more about United Way and make your pledge on the LLCC United Way donation page. Read about the work of your local United Way in LincIn over the next two weeks.
Thank you to all who donated to LLCC’s 2022 United Way campaign! Jeans day stickers are being delivered or sent via interoffice mail to all donors, and donor names have been entered into a United Way drawing for gift cards to local businesses.
We collected more than $15,000 in pledges. These gifts will help agencies who assist those in need in our community.
For anyone who missed the campaign and would like to give, the donation page is still open.
A reminder that there’s still time to contribute to the LLCC United Way Campaign, which ends today. Make your pledge on the LLCC United Way donation page. (If you would like a paper form, please email lynn.whalen@llcc.edu)
Many individuals are in need here in Central Illinois, and United Way works to support the local programs that provide critically needed assistance. If you have a favorite non-profit, you can designate all or part of your gift to that organization. Or, make an undesignated gift, and you will support more than 30 local programs addressing the basic needs, education, financial stability and health of our friends and neighbors. All decisions on how those funds are allocated are made locally by representatives from the community. Choose easy payroll deduction which spreads your payments out over the entire year, or a one-time gift, and know that you are making a difference. We’ll reward you with a jeans day and chance to win gift cards to local businesses.
Be the one!
Thank you,
Charlotte Warren, Ph.D.
President, Lincoln Land Community College
LLCC exists to support the community, and employees are asked to consider a gift to United Way to assist other organizations who help community members. Whether in times of crisis or working for a better life, United Way agencies provide vital services to our students, our neighbors and often ourselves and our families.
Fill out your pledge form today and help families in need. Paper forms are also available today in Cass Gym during the luncheon/keynote presentation and at the Information Desk in A. Lincoln Commons during the ice cream social. Choose convenient payroll deduction or make a one-time gift to charities of your choice or to the United Way Community Fund. Your gift will be joined with others to make a real difference in our communities.
Some of the agencies that benefit from your gift to the United Way Community Fund include Contact Ministries, Helping Hands of Springfield, Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery, Senior Services of Central Illinois, Sojourn Shelter and Services, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois, Compass for Kids, Inc., Springfield Urban League, MERCY Communities and American Red Cross.
Sojourn Shelter and Services, Senior Services of Central Illinois, Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, Mercy Communities, Compass for Kids and Contact Ministries are just a few of the programs supported by the United Way Community Fund. LLCC’s United Way campaign is under way through Nov. 4, and you are invited to “be the one” who makes a difference in our community through your donation.