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Community Investment Goal: To build community capacity. United Way does this through:

Investment of community raised funds.
Coordination of community assessment data collection, management and dissemination.
Coordination of a countywide health and human service strategic plan.
Taking a leadership role and/or active participation in community issue activities.
Developing and maintaining relationships with health and human service providers and funding entities.
Managing agency outcome training and collection.

Thriving Kids
Preparing kids to be successful.

Strong Families
Giving families tools to build and sustain healthy relationships.

Healthy Communities
Offering solid programs that help people meet life's challenges.

For more information contact

Department	E-mail	Phone
Director of Community Investment	[email protected]	(616) 396-7811

Projects Needed for Day of Caring, September 18
Is there a house in your neighborhood whose owners are unable, due to age or infirmity, to keep up the maintenance? Do you drive by an overgrown lot that needs to be tamed into a play area for local kids? These are only some of the tasks that hundreds of Ottawa County volunteers are ready to help with during the ninth annual county-wide Day of Caring on Thursday, September 18.

Greater Ottawa County United Way's Campaign a Success
Greater Ottawa County United Way has officially completed its annual campaign, and Thursday night announced campaign results and honored outstanding volunteers at its annual Celebration Dinner. One of the highlights of the event, held at Spring Lake Country Club, was the announcement of a successful campaign raising $2,109,939. Also among the evenings celebrations were accolades given to volunteers and organizations recognizing them for their leadership efforts during the 2007-08campaign and participation in volunteer activities throughout the year.

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Community Investment Training
Find out more about how you can get involved in Greater Ottawa County United Way's Community Investment process, Volunteer training is on either February 21st or 25th, 2008.

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