The Value of a Dollar

The value of a dollar translates into many meanings. Through United Way, the meaning of a dollar carries the powerful weight of a community collaborating to help their neighbors. Below is how a dollar, less than a gallon of gas, a week (total pledge of $52) can go a long way to show our neighbors and community that we care.

Pays monthly telephone bills for two shelter houses
Provide five hours of crisis counseling, helping up to 15 people in crisis stabilization
Provides breakfast for 52 children
Provide home care services to an elderly individual that will delay or prevent institutionalization
Purchases groceries for one disaster victim
Obtains birth certificates and photo IDs for 4 people for employment and self-sufficiency

With a simple dollar a week leaving an influential impact on lives in our community, the magnitude of the impact left by a few dollars more is much greater.

$80.25 (approx. $1.55 a week) supports one woman for a day in a domestic abuse shelter (Includes room and board, counseling, gas or bus tickets, relocation costs, and medical expenses)
$104 ($2 a week) provides three families of four, three days of food
$104 ($2 a week) provides a month of school supplies for ten children
$156 ($3 a week) provides a nutritious noon meal for a homebound elderly person for two months
$500 (less than $10 a week) provides first month’s rental assistance for a disaster victim