Your Dollars at work! Did you know...

Helping Hands:

For $50, we can give a family food (for several days depending on size of family)
For $40, we can provide motel accommodations for one night for a homeless person.
For $100, we can help a family avoid an electric termination.
For $150, we can help avoid eviction from a dwelling.
For $200, we can help a client obtain emergency heating fuel.
For $25 to $100, we can help with prescription medication.
For $25, we can almost fill a gas tank for the average car.
 
At present, we average giving about $1,200 every day we are open for emergency needs.
 
 
Boy Scouts:

$25       provides one (1) Cub Scout Day Camp campership
$50       provides two (2) Eagle Scout Award presentation kits
$50       provides one (1) Cub Scout Adventure Camp campership
$90       provides one (1) Boy Scout Summer Camp ½ campership
$190     provides one (1) Boy Scout Summer Camp full campership

 
Goodwill:

$31 buys services for one day for a disabled member of our community who cannot work elsewhere and has no other funds to work here. (Services are vocational and life skills training, plus the opportunity to earn a paycheck)

 
Free Clinic:

$4.89 will provide a 30 day prescription
$549 will provide for diabetic for a year.( Includes 4 doctor visits, medications, eye exam, foot exam quarterly lab testing and a glucometer and strips. If you compare to regular costs that would be more than $5,000)
Girl Scouts
For the Girl Scouts Virginia Skyline Council:
$12 supports the annual membership for one girl
$50 sends one girl to a summer day camp program
$75 provides program material for two scout troops
$120 supports five new troops
$195 supports programming for an entire year for one girl

 
Hospice:

$35 will provide a hospice patient a medical alert button for a month
(We have paid for heating bills, groceries, firewood, phone cards, med alert buttons for patients whom are alone during day. Bills vary in cost from $35/month for med watch button up to several hundred for food and heating bills.)
 
Note: Hospice uses United Way monies for things insurance won’t pay. They told me about using our funds to bring a brother or sister to see the dying relative. The two hadn’t spoken for years, but were able to reconcile before it was too late.
 
 
YMCA:

Donations make education, child care, recreation, and mentoring experiences available to area children, teens, and families who cannot afford to pay full fees.
 
$25 helps provide one month of full membership for a deserving teen
$50 helps provide a scholarship for any YMCA  child or teen development program
$100 helps give one child a full week of YMCA day camp, including field trips
$150 helps support a family with one month of after-school care for a child
$250 helps underwrite a youngster's full year of swim team classes
$500 helps send five pre-school children to the YMCA "Land of Wonder" for a week
$1,000 helps underwrite one month of work with high-risk teens


Blue Ridge Legal Services:

$40 will provide a low-income person with a legal consultation about a troubling legal question.