GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN WE LIVE UNITED

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2015-2016Annual Report

Your contribution to United Way of Southwest Wyoming increasesearly learning opportunities, third grade reading scores, and graduation rates in our community. swunitedway.org

Uniting People, Sharing Resources, Improving Lives in Southwest Wyoming.

United Way of Southwest Wyoming will create sustainable and measurable results to improve lives through collaborative leadership and address critical community issues.

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United Way of Southwest Wyoming30 Programs Funded in 4 Counties in 2015 Over 15,000 Lives

Impacted(Unduplicated)

Service Area - Number Of Programs Funded

Funded Partners

MISSION

VISION

Thank you! Because of you, more children are ready to start kindergarten.

Table of ContentsMission & Vision Pg. 2Numbers in Review Pg. 3Education Pg. 4Golf Tournament Pg. 5Life RU Ready? Pg. 6Health Pg. 7Basic Needs Pg. 8Helping Hands Day Pg. 9New Fundraising Events Pg. 1037th Annual Celebration Event Pg. 11Can-Am Commander Give Away Pg. 12Student United Way Pg. 13Board of Directors Pg. 14

Great Things Happen When We LIVE UNITED!

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Big Brothers Big Sisters EducationBoys & Girls Club of Evanston EducationBoys & Girls Club of Sweetwater County EducationEden Valley Telehealth HealthEvanston Child Developmental Center EducationFood Bank of Sweetwater County Basic NeedsLincoln County Library Foundation EducationLincoln Self-Reliance Basic Needs

Lincoln County Uinta County

Lincoln Uinta Child Developmental Association(2) EducationSexual Assault and Family Violence Basic Needs

Uinta CountySublette County

Sublette Big Brothers Big Sisters EducationSweetwater County Child Developmental Center EducationSweetwater Family Resource Center

Family Visitation Program HealthFamily Independence Program Basic Needs

Sweetwater Life RU Ready? EducationThayne Senior Center HealthUinta BOCES 1 Foundation EducationUinta Senior Citizens HealthWestern Wyoming Family Health Health

Sweetwater County Uinta County

Young At Heart Senior CenterEarly Learning Center Education

In Home Services HealthSpecial Diets Program Health

Youth Alternative Home Association Basic NeedsYouth Home, Inc. Basic NeedsYWCA

Family Justice Center/Support & Safe House Basic NeedsFinancial Empowerment Basic Needs

EducationBuild and participate in collaborations that will affect a measurable increase in kindergarten readiness, third grade reading scores and high school graduation rates.

Numbers In Review

Fremont County Graduation MattersSweetwater County Life RU Ready?

Our Goal:

Funded Community Partners

United Way ProgramDolly parton’s ImaginationLibrary In Southwest Wyoming 2,524 children are currently receiving books. 2,509 have graduated from the program

United Way Collaborations

$1,361,792.00

$23,493.00

$26,400.00

$30,180.00 $6,905.00

$26,547.52

Revenue

Campaign

In-Kind Contributions

Special Events

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Community Diaper Bank

Interest/Other

$260,088.00

$221,088.00

$236,020.00$8,750.52$66,107.35

$435,804.00

$64,168.00

Community Impact

Campaign Distributions - Basic Needs Campaign Distributions - Education

Campaign Distributions - Health Diaper Bank

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library FamilyWize Savings

Targeted Needs

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Boys & Girls Club of EvanstonBoys & Girls Club of Sweetwater CountyEvanston Child Developmental CenterLincoln County Library FoundationLincoln Uinta Child Development Association Programs in Lincoln and Uinta Counties

Sublette Big Brothers Big SistersSweetwater Big Brothers Big SistersSweetwater County Child Developmental CenterSweetwater Life R U Ready?Uinta BOCES 1 FoundationYoung at Heart early learning center

Eagle Sponsor$1,000

Birdie Sponsors$500

Bank of the WestJohn Bunning Transfer

Simplot

Par Sponsors$250

ComTechMandros Painting

Plan One ArchitectsRyckman Creek Resources, LLC

Teton DistributingTaco Time

Wyoming Casing Service

Other SponsorsABC Carpet Care

Cafe RioCity of Green RiverCity of Rock Springs

Church & DwightCoca-Cola

Commerce BankHall Noble & AssociatesIndustrial Hoist & Crane

McDonald’sPar 5 Promotions

Taco TimeThe Radio Network

Western Wyoming BeveragesWilliams

Wind River Hotel & CasinoWyoming Machinery

9th Annual Golf Tournment Life RU Ready?Raising Funds For Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Businesses and golfers raised $19,563 for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Southwest Wyoming. 116 golfers played in the tournament held at Rolling Green Country Club. Prizes were awarded to 1st - 3rd place teams, as well as individual contests that included: longest putt, closest to the hole, closest to the tree.

Educational CollaborationsMission Statement: The Life RU Ready? Project is a “life-simulation” health fair for teens and parents designed to increase awareness of the consequences of risky behavior, to decrease motivation to participate in risk taking behavior, and to provide new opportunities for parent-teen communication. The Project is a community wide collaboration whose goal is to make safe and healthy choices the norm in Sweetwater County.The first Life RU Ready? event was held October 20 - 22 2014.

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HealthBuild and participate in collaborations that will improve access to and availability of healthcare.

Funded Community PartnersEden Valley TelehealthSweetwater Family Resource CenterThayne Senior CenterUinta Senior CitizensWestern Wyoming Family Health Sweetwater County Uinta CountyYoung At Heart Senior Center In Home Services Special Diets Program

United Way ProgramsFamilyWize - During this past fiscal year Wyoming residents in our region saved $435,804 on theirprescriptions with the FamilyWize program. For moreinformation visit familywize.org

Sweetwater County Healthy Behaviors CoalitionUinta County Planned Approach to Community Health

United Way Collaborations

Our Goal:

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Basic NeedsFoster an integrated set of community wide services to optimize an individual’s ability to meet their basic human needs in the areas of: Food & Shelter; Safety; Transportation; Crisis Services; and Financial Stability.

Our Goal:

Funded Community PartnersFood Bank of Sweetwater CountyLincoln Self Reliance - Lincoln & Uinta CountiesSexual Assault And Family Violence - Uinta & Sublette CountiesSweetwater Family Resource Center - Family Independence ProgramYouth Alternative Home AssociationYouth Home, Inc.YWCA - Family Justice Center & Support and Safe HouseYWCA - Financial Empowerment

United Way ProgramCommunity Diaper Bank - 30,034 diapers weredistributed - this is equivalent to $6,006.80 that has been put back into our community.

Home Depot’s Framing Hope ProjectSublette County Coordinated CareSweetwater County Interagency Communications CouncilHousing First CoalitionJoint Community Forces

United Way Collaborations

A volunteer for the Thayne Senior Center’s Home Delivered Meals.

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2015 Helping Hands Day

SPONSORSCiner

Jim Bridger Power PlantJohn Bunning Transfer

Mandros PaintingPacifiCorp

Par 5 PromotionsRSNB Bank

SimplotTata Chemicals

United Steelworkers #15320TronoxQuestar

Volunteer TeamsGRHS BasketballHoman Family

Jim Bridger Power PlantUtility Workers Union of

America Local 127Little Miss RoyaltyMandros Painting

OCIQuestar CorporationStudent United Way

Solvay Chemicals, Inc.Tata Chemicals

United Steelworkers Local 15320Tronox

United Steelworkers Local 13214Little Miss Royalty

Helping Hands Day matches volunteers with improvement projects for the elderly, disabled and non-profit organizations. On this day, volunteers come together to demonstrate the impact made when you work together.

Organized by volunteers, the Helping Hands Day Committee works with organizations wishing to submit projects as well as recruiting volunteer teams to pick and complete submitted projects. Local sponsors cover the costs of the event, including providing additional funds to cover project costs. When a project requires supplies that the agency or individual cannot afford the team can submit a request to have needed supplies purchased.

Questar employees completed projects for a Rock Springs senior citizen and enjoyed getting to know him.

Painting with a Purpose brought couples, friends, sisters and individuals together for an evening of painting and supporting children in our community.

12 Teams - Complete 37 Projects

New Fundraising EventsUnited Way of Southwest Wyoming had two new fundraising events this year. Proceeds from both events benefited Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program. This program mails one new, carefully selected book , each month to a child at his/her home. This program is for all children birth to age five. Reading regularly with children during their preschool years is

the biggest boost toward a successful eduction!

Goat-A-Gram and Painting with a Purpose

Volunteers from Wyoming West 4-H - The Udder Kids 4-H club brought their

goats, from Farson-Eden, and spent the day delivering Goat-A-Grams and

sharing their knowledge.

Trae Albert delivered his goat to unknowing recipients during the 1st Annual Goat-A-Gram fundraiser.

Mandros employees and their families power washed and painted the

Boys & Girls Club.

Spirit Award (50 or more employees)

Employees ofWyoming Machinery Company

Spirit Award(10-49 employees)

Employees ofAlternative Youth Home

Association

Excellence Award(50 or more employees)

Simplot Phosphatesand employees

Excellence Award(10-49 employees)

Employees ofAlternative Youth Home

AssociationKara Beech presented the 2015 Spirit Award to Wyoming Machinery. Accepting the award

was Carl Lembke and Dallas Latham.

Event Sponsored by:

Mandy’s Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Attendees participated in a comedy murder mystery, led by two “detectives”, Caleb George and Pat Kiely, from Mission IMPROVable. Clues generated by the audience helped decide who had the means, motive and opportunity to commit the murder of our esteemed Cowboy Joe. After several suspects were identified and reenactments of possible scenarios were complete a rival mascot was found to be the murder of our beloved mascot.

37th Annual Celebration Event

The Spirit ll and Excellence ll Awards were awarded to Youth Alternative Home

Association. DAndrea Chichester accepted them on their behalf. She is pictured with

United Way of Southwest Wyoming Co-Executive Directors Kathy Tacke and Kelly Frink.

Can-Am Commander Give Away!

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Workplace giving is the single largest area of support to the annual United Way campaign. Whether employees choose the payroll deduction, the one-time gift, or the billing option, employees giving through the workplace make up 65 percent of the campaign. To help increase donations, during the 2015 campaign any person who

donated $100 or more was entered to win a Can-Am commander. Donors received one entry for each $100 donation, or six entries for each $500 donation. Persons who pledged at their workplace by using payroll deduction, or by making a direct gift were automatically entered. The Celebration Event concluded

when United Way gave away the Can-Am Commander. Three finalists were previously selected. Lawrence Stephens, Jim Bridger Power Plant, Bryce Hamblin, Tronox, and Todd Lindley, ExxonMobil Production LaBarge Operations each chose a key. Lawrence Stephens’ key started the Can-Am.

PresidentAnne Marie CoveySchool Dist. #2

Vice PresidentKara BeechCity of Rock Springs

Secretary/TreasurerPaul Edman CPA

Board MembersTom JarvieCity of Green River Police Department

Ken FortunaWaddell and Reed

Scott HeinerAnadarko Petroleum

Teresa ThyboSweetwater County Attorney’s Office

Patricia AngelovichTronox

Johnathan GreenSweetwater County Travel & Tourism

2015- 2016 Board of Directors

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Volunteers Working For You

THANK YOU!Great Things Happen When We LIVE UNITED!

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Student United WayStudents from Western Wyoming Community College established the first Student United Way in Wyoming, an extension of United Way of Southwest Wyoming, in 2014. Student United Way is a movement of passionate student leaders committed to improving lives and strengthening communities. They focus on education, financial stability and health - the building blocks for a good quality life.

Newly Established

Mustang Market gave Student United Way an opportunity to promote their club with a

Casino Fever theme.

Student United Way donated $70 raised from their healthy food sale (in honor of nutrition month) to the food bank.

The Celebration Event was a great time for Student United Way members to meet some of our donors.

Student United Way completed several Helping Hands Day projects for an elderly couple.

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