Through the following areas of service, your gift to United Way not only provides needed services to people, it allows United Way to continue the many facets of service to our community, its people and our agencies.

BUILDING COMMUNITY BY FOSTERING PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
United Way brings together people in our community who are from different ethnic, racial, educational and income groups. Retired members of our community, company executives, teachers, professionals, plant workers, bankers, competing business representatives, city and county government employees, and many others, come together as United Way and jointly work to meet needs of people in Iredell County. United Way also provides a network for community agencies to work with one another to ensure services are provided in an efficient and effective manner.

SOLVING COMMUNITY PROBLEMS BY MONITORING NEEDS AND OFFERING SOLUTIONS
Your United Way strives to identify community needs and acts to meet those needs. United Way periodically conducts community needs and resource assessment to determine areas of duplicated service or gaps in services needed in our community.

PROMOTING VOLUNTEERISM
United Way constantly recruits volunteers to give our citizens the opportunity to address community issues. We are a volunteer-based organization and could not exist without local volunteers. United Way also works throughout the year to recognize outstanding community volunteers celebrating National Volunteer Week. United Way's Information and Referral Service/Volunteer Iredell serves as a Volunteer Center, matching people wanting to volunteer with agencies needing volunteer help.

SERVING AS ONE CALL FOR HELP
United Way of Iredell County houses and manages a human services clearinghouse, the Information & Referral Service of Iredell, which links people in need of services with the appropriate programs or agencies to help them. The service is funded by United Way of Iredell County, the Mooresville/Lake Norman United Way, Iredell County government, and the Town of Mooresville. Call (704) 872-2900.

DISTRIBUTING FUNDS TO LOCAL AGENCIES
The United Way Community Investment is conducted annually by a diverse group of community volunteers who are often United Way contributors. Volunteers review agencies' requests for funds, budgets and financial information, community needs and services provided by each agency to meet human need in our community. This process ensures that each United Way gift is spent in an efficient way to meet as many needs as possible in our community.

HOLDING A SINGLE, COMMUNITY-WIDE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR UNITED WAY AND LOCAL AGENCIES
Each year United Way conducts one community-wide campaign to raise funds to support United Way and local agencies. This helps reduce the year-round fundraising in our community and helps our agencies spend more of their time helping others and less raising funds needed to operate.