Community Care Fund
The Community Care Fund is the general account of the United Way of the Inland Valleys . Monies from our donors, unless designated, go to the Community Care Fund for distribution throughout our community. We encourage our donors to give to this fund instead of making a designation for several reasons:
- UWIV identifies real needs in our local community and uses these funds to address these needs.
- All funding decisions are made by local volunteers after they have reviewed appropriate community data.
- In 2008, UWIV supported 110 health and human service programs by working through 38 local non-profit agencies.
- UWIVs mission is to support the community through local health and human service organizations; all must maintain non-profit status. Many non-profits people designate to do not provide health or human services and do not fall under our mission.
The Community Care Fund is intended to support the building blocks of a successful community through building capacity; a community that sees character building for youth as an important human service as well as caring for the elderly and the less fortunate. The Community Care Fund is there to help people who have fallen on tough times but it is also there to ensure the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have the resources they need for building good citizens and for the Boys & Girls Club to guarantee after school care in all neighborhoods.
The Community Care Fund is just that, a fund where caring people can invest in the quality of life in Western Riverside County and do so knowing other caring people are watching to ensure the money goes where it is most needed. The Community Care Fund is a major step in our effort to Live United.
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