The United Way of Lee County Inc

Community Impact Fund:The United Way Community Impact Fund supports over 260 programs throughout a large network of social service agencies. These critical community programs address vital areas such as strengthening families, building resiliency for our most vulnerable populations, supporting youth and empowering communities.The United Way of Lee County Gifts In Kind Program: The United Way Gifts In Kind Program provides nonprofit, health and human services organizations, in Lee, Hendry, and Glades counties with access to quality in-kind goods. GIK acts as a liaison between local and national donors, and participating agencies. Continued on Schedule OThe purpose of GIK is to assist agencies in leveraging their dollars while providing donors with an outlet for distributing surplus and increasing their contribution and support of the local community. United Way and its Gifts In Kind Program is leading the Hurricane Ian Donations Committee for the Unmet Needs Long Term Recovery Group (LTRG) in Lee County, ensuring all participants with LTRG have up to date information and access to the Program for their clients and organizations. United Way Resiliency Hubs: United Way Resiliency Hubs bring needed services into vulnerable communities through the mobilization of the United Way network and key community partners. These centralized locations provide space for agencies to provide their critical programs, providing over 450,000 services each year throughout the network of 18 locations.

American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding was awarded through a collaboration with the Lee County Government to ensure that 59 Lee County nonprofit social service agencies maintained the organizational capacity to administer 62 projects to help mediate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. United Way was also awarded to maintain the infrastructure requisite to educate potential Sub-Awardees on the application process and functionally administer federal support to all awarded Agencies. A portion of the award received by United Way led to strengthening internal processes and operations, resulting in dramatically enhanced social service programming in Lee County with the ultimate goal of mitigating long-term COVID-19 impacts. Continued on Schedule OMore than $14 million dollars was distributed since 2022 to Lee County nonprofit agencies for programming that was directly impacted by COVID-19 such as financial health, rehousing, domestic violence counseling, direct medical/dental attention, etc. Through the administration of ARPA awards, United Way was able to support area nonprofit organizations to reach disproportionately impacted populations and focus on improved community health and well-being.