#united way

[mandy-malady]

Trying to get more info on this but what the fuck

[mbrainspaz]

"I am eager to bring my skills to United Way and contribute to your impactful initiatives. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the opportunity to meet you face to face and build a lasting professional relationship that will be sung of in ballads long after our civilization is become dust and ashes.

Sincerely,

Numa"

okay that one got away from me. Not like it matters since the job's been listed for TWO YEARS?!

[auraeseer]

Though Oxford English is the standard, I prefer Merriam-Webster . . .

[oldshowbiz]

where your donations to the united way go...

[misforgotten2]

And the CEO of United Way learned that the French Riviera is quite pleasant this time of year.

Reader's Digest   November  1974

[saintcarlyon]

It’s worth noting that the 211 program started with a regional United Way (San Diego or Pennsylvania, I believe) and has since gone nationwide. Who mans and funds a 211 is dependent on the state/region and the nonprofits based there.

I mention this because how 211 and its host nonprofit may need donor help. Grants, contract for services with governments, and key, high worth donors (like the wealthy and companies) MIGHT be funding these programs. It’s usually a portion of overall cost though. And government spending is generally frowned on in the US. So Individual donations to these organizations are still critical.

Every United Way is a little different- please research to see if they’re hosting a 211 or resource navigation. And if so, please consider making a donation or suggesting a workplace campaign to help fund those efforts! These past couple of months we’re hearing and seeing the need for assistance spike throughout the US. If you prefer, donate to food pantries and nonprofits that assist with housing. One way or another it’ll benefit the whole!

If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

[murfreesboronews]

United Way of South Central Tennessee Will Host its Annual Community Celebration at MTSU

United Way of South Central Tennessee (UWSCTN) will host its annual Community Celebration Luncheon on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the MTSU Student Union Ballroom. United Way’s mission to improve health, education, and financial stability would not have been possible without the help and support of our local community. The Community Celebration occurs each year and is a…

[chaosmenu]

i cant stop thinking about the fact that the us and uk killed one million people in indonesia as part of the cold war effort and barely anybody knows about it much less cares. trying to tell somebody about it especially in the west will just garner laughter and celebration -- genocide is okay if they are (true or suspected) communists, no matter what. one million people

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Prevail Bank gives back to school children

The U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 2022) and the Annie E.  Casey Foundation estimates 13.4 percent of the children in Wisconsin live in households below the poverty level.

Prevail Bank recently donated $1,500 to various school districts, United Way organizations, and Meals in a Backpack programs in nine central Wisconsin counties to support children who don’t have all the supplies or nourishment they need to be successful in school, Prevail Bank announced recently. An additional $750 was used to buy school supplies. “Prevail Bank is very proud to contribute to the…

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[jmal0]

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“It gets lonely, sometimes just playing with the cat, says an unemployed ex-convict as he stares bleakly out his window.” Toronto Star Archives. Object name: TSPA_0009289F. Photograph by Bob Olsen.  Published originally as part of “Behind The United Appeal: The lonely and wretched,” Toronto Star. August 30, 1971. Page 26. ---- This is the second in a series of articles on the many agencies supported by the United Appeal, which begins its public appeal for funds on Sept. 27. --- By HELEN WAINMAN Star staff writer --- When United Appeal agencies begin their public information campaigns this fall, they'll all produce slick and glossy brochures that speak of patient services, rehabilitation, vocational guidance, research, treatment and education. 

There'll be graphs and charts reporting total expenses and the amount received from United Appeal, so that the public has few questions on how their voluntary dollars are spent. 

Statistics will report the hundreds aided by the service, the thousands afflicted by the disease, the millions poured into research. 

But they won't tell about the 45-year-old woman on Bathurst St.. afflicted with multiple sclerosis and so worried about what her neighbors think that she re- fuses to stop outdoors, 

Or the 32-year-old unemployed ex-convict, living in a second-floor apartment on Pembroke St. who in tears told a John Howard Society worker: "It gets lonely sometimes, just playing with my cat." 

Loneliness feared While there are few comparisons in services provided by the 13 United Appeal agencies dealing with rehabilitation and social adjustment or health services and research, there are common denominators cutting across agency lines. 

But the problems of loneliness. confusion, fear, adjustment to disease or social condition sound trite when reproduced in the professional brochures. So the agencies are left describing impersonal services even though they cope with far more. 

"It's ironic," says Mrs. Doreen Konradis, executive director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, that the most important things we do are often the hardest to relate to the public." 

Mrs. Konradis has been looking for a skilled volunteer to befriend the Bathurst St. woman. 

Desperate for social contacts, the woman is "literally dying of loneliness" Mrs. Konradis says. 

"But she won't talk to her neighbors for fear they'll think she only wants them to come in and do housework." 

As a result, the association this fall will attempt to recruit more visiting volunteers to visit multiple sclerosis patients in their homes. 

Mrs. Konradis estimates there are fewer than 20 volunteers to serve the estimated 2,000 residents of Metro Toronto who have the disease. 

And when the John Howard Society of Ontario describes its role as providing "rehabilitation ser-vice" for men who have served terms in prison, the public thinks the society's work ends when the man has been given a job, says social worker Charles Henderson. 

Social integration "You can't just say, give a guy a job and it's all over. The man may come out and all he sees is job, money, rent or food. But work alone is not going to do any thing for him. You have to talk about social integration. Who are his friends. How does he relate?" 

The society, which received. $160.215 from the United Appeal in 1970 and handled a case load last year of 1,300, is considering vocational training for ex-convicts, Henderson says.  “These people too often end up with third-rate jobs and that leads them to believe they're third-rate people. They're often jobs few people would take. What does that do to his self-image, if he believes that his mobility is going in end with the job?”

The public is mistaken if they think he's going to exonerate himself by scraping grease off a machine for the rest of his life."

Henderson and social worker David Kennedy claim former prisoners suffer most from "a tremendous amount of rejection and distrust. Many literally hate themselves. 

"The problem is with the men themselves who are convinced they're going to be shafted. When they don't get a job, and often it's for a legitimate reason. they're sure it's because of their prison records,” Henderson says. 

He recalls the findings of a large Toronto firm, which hired 13 detectives last spring to investigate staff thefts. Nine employees were fired as a result. None of the three ex-convicts working for the company was involved. 

"You can imagine how they felt when they learned the 'square johns’ were getting away with something they had never attempted." 

Low priorities Like other United Appeal agencies. the John Howard Societ  would like a more sympathetic publi, even though Henderson admits "we're probably low down on people's list of priorities." 

If there's an unspoken competition for public sympathy among the agencies, Toronto's Adult Cerebral Palsy Institute also feels it suffers from the same lack of public response. 

Operating one of two residences in Canada for adults afflicted with cerebral palsy, home administrator Douglas Seaton admits: "The public doesn't seem to realize that crippled children become crippled adults. They just don't respond in the same way." 

Complicating their work is the public's mistaken notion that since cerebral palsy is a brain disorder, which results in speech disorders. its victims must also he mentally retarded. An estimated 25 per cent, in fact, are capable of taking university courses. 

Most of United Appeal's health service agencies will concentrate on public information programs this fall. 

The most active will be launched by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada, which is urging all female relatives of males with the disease to take a simple blood test. The test, while not conclusive, can single out women likely to be carriers of Duchenne, the most prevalent - and deadly - form of the disease.

"It means that the woman's chance of having a dystrophic child is abnormally high," says executive director Frank Murphy. 

Since muscular dystrophy is fatal in 80 per cent of cases and life expectancy is only about 19 years, Murphy believes "any intelligent young woman told these risks would certainly decide not to have a child. 

"Now we believe it is more important that we prevent a dystrophic child from being born." 

Children afflicted The association estimates 10,000 to 12.000 children in Canada are afflicted with muscular dystrophy, a weakening of the voluntary muscles in the body. Since it is considered hereditary in 70 per cent of cases, preventing births is considered one way of curbing the disease. 

While the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society is also working to control disease, it faces an added problem: Combatting superstition and fad cures. 

"The whole field of quack cures, potions, vinegars and special diets that are supposed to cure arthritis is unbelievable," says information director Cecilia Long. 

The association estimates 2,000,000 work days are lost each year because of arthritis and rheumatism, resulting in an annual loss to the Canadian economy of $457 million. 

One and a half million Canadians are afflicted with arthritis. and 95,000 of these confined to bed or wheelchair. 

Early treatment As a result, programs are geared to letting the public know that "early treatment and proper diagnosis" can prevent disability. Serious disability results, the association warns, from "devastating neglect." 

The Metro Toronto division of Canadian Mental Health Association deals with the same frightening statistics. They predict that of all children born in 1968, one in six will need institutional treatment.

 The association has four mental health community divisions operating in Toronto in which lay and professional groups organize family life programs and communications seminars for youth and parents in area schools. 

The association also operates two rehabilitation programs for former mental hospital patients, a day camp on Toronto Island and summer camp at Niagara Lodge at Niagara-on-the-Lake.

[The later section dealing with muscular dsytrophy and arthritis, is really coming from an ableist and even eugenicist viewpoint - preventing women from having babies who might be carriers, preventing economic loss, etc. Most of the information about former prisoners isn’t much different fifty years later.]

[applebees4prez]

diversity win! the construct gorgug apparently had a situationship with throughout junior year uses he/him pronouns, thus confirming gorgug as queer!

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.