United Way Of North Central Florida Inc

Programs: Expenses incurred by the organization to assess community needs; provide program assessment, review and selection; administer grants; provide financial and stewardship oversight of grant recipients; and participate in community partnerships to advance common goals in the four focus areas. Impact partners - $950,000 the community investment allocations to united way impact partners are determined by june each year. The program allocations are paid monthly from july to june. As an extension to our mission, united way allows its donors to direct part or all of their contributions to other 501c(3) non-profit organizations. The donor choice funding is paid quarterly following the annual campaign.

community impact grants - $135,585united way of north central florida's grant-funded initiatives help improve our community's education, income and health. Here are some results from 2016-2017:education: -readingpals is an early literacy program in partnership with united way of north central florida, carol and barney barnett and the children's movement of florida. Readingpals volunteers commit to reading with a 2nd or 3rd grade student for an hour a week for the entire school year. The goal of the initiative is to increase 3rd grade reading proficiency. During the 2016-17 school year, uwncfl's readingpals program was rated in the top three in the state for volunteer engagement with 65% of volunteers reading more than 25 hours with their student and 72% read over 19 hours, an increase of 14% from last year. Readingpals was offered in nine alachua county public schools where 156 readingpals volunteers were paired with more than 165 students with 2,676 hours of literacy mentoring generated. -the book nook project ended in june 2017. As a result of our collective impact efforts, we supported a total of 24 sites with 75% becoming sustainable and continuing to offer free books to children and adults throughout the community. Financial stability:-the volunteer income tax assistance (vita) program is an irs-funded program. It provides free tax preparation to low-moderate community members in united way's six-county area and is uwncfl's sole internal community impact income program. Vita has been present at uwncfl for six years through irs grant sponsorship and around 11 years in the gainesville community. Prior to this time, vita belonged to east gainesville development. Vita has successfully leveraged many community resources to provide tax preparation, including partnerships with uf levin college of law, santa fe college, buchholz academy of finance, and alachua county library district. We served at 10 sites and with the help of more than 141 vita volunteers, united way of north central florida was able to complete 1,327 returns, provide $1,773,183 in refunds and $532,677 in earned income credit, save taxpayers $310,553 in paid fees for a total impact of $2,083,736. The average refund was $1,237 and average eitc was $472 (saving an average tax fee for preparations of $261). This year we also participated in united way of florida's tax assistance program receiving $10,826 to expand our work into the rural communities and served as a pass through for $2,598. 82 to united way of suwannee for providing income tax preparation to residents of columbia, hamilton, lafayette and suwannee counties. - the myfreetaxes program is a free supplemental online tax program provided to the local community by united way of north central florida. During the 2016-2017 tax season, the website provided free tax software to 225 residents.

support to 501(c)(3) organizations as directed by our contributors.

in addition to funding programs in the community, united way of north central florida provides program monitoring, financial stewardship and oversight, health and human services planning and collaboration, outcome measurement training and tracking, community partnerships, and community outreach including advocacy, volunteerism, disaster planning and response, and other activities, such as:-2-1-1 is a free service provided by united way of north central florida connecting the community to critical health and social service resources. For the fiscal year 2017, 13,624 local residents called 2-1-1. The top five reasons local residents called 2-1-1 were housing assistance (26%), utility assistance (24%), tax-prep assistance (10%), food (10%), and healthcare (6%). -toys for tots alachua county was a local initiative in partnership with the united way of north central florida, us marine corps reservists and partnership for strong families' resource centers library partnership and cone park. Last year, united way provided over 8,183 brand new toys to 1,161 needy children in the community. -familywize prescription drug program provides affordable access to prescription drugs to help keep families healthy. In fiscal year 2017, the prescription drug discount was used over 21,000 times with a total local savings on prescription drugs of $584,293. 46.