United Way Of Clallam County

Results: In 2020, with your help, United Way invested $1,421,551 in our community.
- COVID-19 Response Fund: $253,540
- Partner Allocations: $647,760
- Foundation Grants & Scholarships: 270,251
- Albert Haller Grants: $250,000

Target demographics: children, families, individuals, and students

Direct beneficiaries per year: 24 local human and social service agencies

Geographic areas served: Clallam County, WA

Programs: Annual Campaign: We partner with businesses, non-profits, governments, and individuals to raise funds supporting health and human service needs in our county.

We want all people to have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. We support programs in Education that promote academic achievement. We advance Economic Mobility by helping everyone achieve greater financial stability. We promote good Health by partnering to maximize physical and mental health and well-being across all of Clallam County.

Funds raised in Clallam County go to programs and projects addressing three main areas: Education, Economic Mobility and Health. We fund 24 Partner Agencies with annual allocations which come from donations to United Way. In addition, we distribute funds to nonprofits as directed by our donors through the designation process. We do this so that our community advances learning at all levels; achieves greater financial stability and improves physical and mental well-being.

Clallam Community Foundation: The Clallam Community Foundation is a way for people to leave a permanent legacy for health and human care needs in Clallam County. The Foundation is a permanent endowment fund with only the earnings distributed. The Foundation helps to strengthen local non-profit agencies and helps people give to our community.

Donors may establish a named fund to honor a loved one. Family members, friends or others may be appointed as advisors to make recommendations for distributions from the fund. The Clallam County Foundation helps identify missions and verify the charitable status of the organizations you may want to support.

Dolly Parton Imagination Library: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.

After launching in 1995, the program grew quickly. First books were only distributed to children living in Sevier County, Tennessee where Dolly grew up. It became such a success that in 2000 a national replication effort was underway. By 2003, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library had mailed one million books. It would prove to be the first of many millions of books sent to children around the world.

In December of 2020, United Way of Clallam County partnered with North Olympic Library Foundation and North Olympic Library System to start a local affiliate of The Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

Clallam Resilience Project: The Clallam Resilience Project is a consortium of over 50 organizations working together to foster resiliency for our residents, organizations, community, and systems. Using research from the NEAR (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and Resiliency) sciences, we provide opportunities to connect, learn, and educate on how and why to apply trauma sensitive care county wide.

The Clallam Resilience Project hosts monthly community meetings, NEAR science trainings, and celebrates Resiliency Month each October.