United Way campaign
About the 2020 campaign
UAF is a proud supporter of United Way of the Tanana Valley. For many years, UAF employees and students have generously contributed time, talent and dollars to United Way, helping to ensure health, education and income stability for all people in our community. One in four people in Fairbanks has been helped by a United Way member agency, and the need continues. By supporting the United Way of the Tanana Valley, we can make sure help is there when it is needed.
Impact of your donation: $20 - book for child, social emotional screening for child, art/science/cooking project supplies, feed a homebound senior for day; $50 – clothing voucher for family, 2 books and lunch for child, feed 1 person for week, year-long membership to boys and girls club for child, meals for week for family of four; $100 – weed of day camp for cub scout, dinner for one teen night, background checks for volunteer, four boxes of complete holiday dinners, 3 hours respite care to parents of child with complex medical conditions; $250 – fruit and veg for 650 lunches for week; 20 hours mentorship for youth, week of lunch and snacks for 40 children, 2 therapy sessions with a behavior health therapist for low income families; $500 – month of emergency shelter for survivors and children, feed a homebound senior for 2 months, 10 annual youth memberships; $1000 year of life alert or electric wheelchair, long-term housing for survivors and children, heating fuel delivery, month of lunch and snacks for 40 children, new air hockey table for boys and girls club; $5000 – food and shelter for 25 families for one day in shelter, feed 3 people for year, 100 annual youth memberships, all virtual need to hold youth court for a year.
2019 wrap-up
UAF held a successful United Way campaign for 2019. UAF employees raised $22,968 to benefit nonprofit organizations in our community! Thank you, UAF employees!
Even though the 2019 campaign has officially ended, you are still able to opt in at any time to make payroll contributions at www.unitedwaytv.com/uaf. The University is proud to offer employees a way to engage and give back to our community. You can make tax deductible contributions through payroll deduction to any nonprofit you choose, or have your gift go to the United Way Community Care Fund, supporting 20 local nonprofit organizations. Thank you again for your work for the university, and our community.
Community Impact 2019: 40832 youths and 30537 adults served; 208492 meals provided; 78425 nights in emergency shelters, recovery, reentry and residential housing provided; 7996 health screenings provided; 1198 children given child and after school care; $857017 total funds raised; $114365 covid-19 funds raised.