United Way of Greater Greensboro

The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world’s largest early childhood education association, with nearly 80,000 members and a network of over 300 local, state, and regional Affiliates.

The purpose of the Week of the Young Child™ is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.

NAEYC first established the Week of the Young Child™ in 1971, recognizing that the early childhood years (birth through age 8 ) lay the foundation for children’s success in school and later life. The Week of the Young Child™ is a time to plan how we—as citizens of a community, of a state, and of a nation—will better meet the needs of all young children and their families.

United Way of Greater Greensboro is happy to celebrate this week with thousands of advocates for early childhood development throughout the United States. In Greensboro, United Way has affirmed our community’s priority of investing early to create better opportunities later in life. Thriving at 3 is United Way of Greater Greensboro’s early childhood development initiative which provides direct services to families and convenes the community to promote information sharing and collaboration.

Thriving at 3 will celebrate the Week of The Young Child by hosting a community Lunch-N-Learn on April 25th. Marian F. Earls, MD, FAAP, Pediatrics Medical Director at Triad Adult & Pediatrics Medicine, and Lead author on American Acadmeny of Pediatrics (AAP) Statement on Screening for Post Partum Depression in primary care, and Co Chair, NC IOM Task Force on Early Childhood Mental Health will be the guest speaker for this event. The discussion will be on postpartum depression, toxic stress, and the impact on the infant’s early brain development. Strategies for promotion, prevention, and intervention in the primary care medical home will be described, as well as for community response and resources including activities and special points of interest.

Registration is on a first come first serve basis and will be closed Friday April 20, 2012. For more information, contact Traci McLemore at 336-378-5040 or traci.mclemore@unitedwaygso.org. 

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Be prepared to go all hands-in at this year’s “Great American Clean-up”. The City of Greensboro will come together to make our local community cleaner, greener, safer and more livable! Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization, creates the power of local change through volunteers.

Communities are cleaned, improved and beautified everywhere, from parks and recreation areas to seashores and waterways. Activities range from handling recycling collections, planting trees and flowers and holding educational events to promote living Green. Through the “Great American Clean-up”, citizens in Greensboro will be working to improve our local community’s environment.

Communities are cleaned, improved and beautified everywhere, from parks and recreation areas to seashores and waterways. Activities range from handling recycling collections, planting trees and flowers and holding educational events to promote living Green. Through the “Great American Clean-up”, citizens in Greensboro will be working to improve our local community’s environment. The Young Leaders engagement group will be participating by cleaning up the United Way neighborhood! Young professionals and their families will come together, meeting at the United Way main office (1500 Yanceyville Street) on Saturday, April 21 from 9:00-11:00, followed by a pizza party at Greensboro Beautiful, located at 501 Yanceyville Street  Greensboro, NC 27405 .

For more information about the Great American Clean-Up, please visit http://www.greensborobeautiful.org/cleanups/great_american_cleanup.php

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Building a Stronger North Carolina

Hear an Overview of the North Carolina State Budget, Economic Forecast, and Issues Affecting Your Community & Add Your Voice to the Discussion

This year United Way, the NC Budget & Tax Center and the NC Justice Center are teaming up to share the story of the economy and the state budget. But, throughout this interactive session, your community will have the opportunity to respond and help write the next chapter in the story. During Building a Stronger North Carolina, be prepared to answer a few questions and to learn a few facts that you can put into action. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:

• How have the state budget and the economy impacted your community?
• What budget trends are developing, and how long will it take for NC to recover from the Great Recession?
• Is NC falling behind in areas like Education, Health and Public Safety?
• How can you impact the issues you care most about? Join with others to focus your local advocacy for the greatest outcome.

Tentative Agenda

9:00 to 9:05 Welcome and Overview of the Morning
9:05 to 10:05 Debunking the Myths of the 2011 Legislative Session
10:05 to 10:30 Identifying Key Policy and Advocacy Issues for 2012
10:30 to 10:40 Break
10:40 to 11:30 Presentations and Q&A with Area Legislators

Hosted in the Triad by the United Ways of Forsyth County, Greater Greensboro, and High Point

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16th from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Place: Girl Scouts’ Carolinas Peaks2Piedmont Triad Service Center (8818 West Market Street, Colfax, NC 27235)

RSVP: online at United Way of NC, or call United Way of Forsyth County at 336-721-9336

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Jill Cox– Government Relations and Communications Director, UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA

Alexandra Sirota–Director, NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER

Louisa Warren–Senior Policy Advocate, NC JUSTICE CENTER

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Join us for the cross-town battle of the Blue and Gold!

UNCG vs. NC A&T Men’s Basketball

Monday, November 28

7:00 PM Tip-Off

$5 of every ticket purchased benefits United Way!

Purchase your $10 tickets before the game one of the following ways:

• Call the UNCG Ticket Office at 336-334-3250
• Download this ticket form and E-Mail to Mike at MAEHMKE@UNCG.EDU
• Download this ticket form and Mail to GREENSBORO COLISEUM BOX OFFICE, 1921 West Lee Street · Greensboro, NC 27403

Pre-Game ticket orders must be received by Friday, November 25th, in order to receive the $10 price. Tickets will be left at Will Call for day of game pick up under your name.  Will Call opens at 6:00pm on November 28^th and an ID is required for ticket pick up.

On Game Day, purchase your $15 tickets by visiting the Coliseum Box Office.

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I was pretty excited after successfully backing into a diagonal space in a parking lot when I noticed, towering over me, a Live United billboard. There a few or more of these United Way billboards by the Ad Council around the city. Have you seen the billboards around? Where?

Have a photo of yourself in your LIVE UNITED t-shirt? Show us that you just don’t wear the shirt, you live it. Post your photos to your Facebook profile and tag our page*, tweet your image to @unitedwaygso, or send it to aden.hailemariam@unitedwaygso.org and let us know where you were volunteering or celebrating if you can!

How do you live united?

By: Aden Hailemariam, Marketing & Communications at United Way of Greater Greensboro

*How to tag pages in Facebook.

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Last Friday, September 10th, was Back to Football Friday across the nation and the day lent the theme for the United Way of Greater Greensboro staff meeting as the internal campaign committee hyped up the staff for the upcoming 2010 campaign.

Follow Back to Football Friday tweets here with #footballfriday.

What’s an internal campaign? Well, just as companies across greater Greensboro have employee campaigns to raise money for their community through United Way, United Way staff have a campaign!

I’ve been catching in the news the events that local companies have as a part of their United Way employee campaigns. Talk about fun! I remember the first day I started at UWGG was the first day of the internal campaign–it was surreal! It was 9 in the morning and a staff meeting as the internal campaign committee dressed up, had games and skits as they hyped up their colleagues to kick off their own employee campaign.

This year our internal campaign theme is…football! Check out photos below of our break from last Friday’s staff meeting as three staff members competed to make it through an obstacle course and win by correctly answering a question about youth health and wellness. We’ve got a full schedule of events this month to kick off our internal campaign. What events does your employee campaign have on its schedule?

Obstacle course contestants were UWGG staff:

Keith Barsuhn, President and CEO

Jenn Gipp, Director of Tocqueville Societies

Gretchen O’Shay, Vice President of Donor Relations and Leadership Giving

By: Aden Hailemariam, Marketing & Communications at United Way of Greater Greensboro

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As United Ways across the country recognize UPS for a record $1 Billion in Giving to Communities this week, our local UPS employees continue to build support for a strong employee campaign with United Way of Greater Greensboro.

The Greensboro UPS campaign kickoff was Thursday, July 15, 2010 and consisted of three rallies to drum up enthusiasm for the upcoming campaign. The rally was added to regular management meeting times and employees learned more about United Way of Greater Greensboro and the appreciation United Way and the community had for each employee’s gift. Speakers included United Way staff and partner agency representatives. UPS management also summarized UPS’s goals and expectations for the campaign.

Shoutout to Jeff York from Star Crook, Donor Relations Manager at UWGG. Jeff would also like to thank his UPS colleagues, Bill Hoffman, Jonathan Goodmon, Frank Farrar and Kaven Smith, for helping to make the rallies a great time with their coordination.

Representatives from UWGG member agencies as well Starlyn added to the excitement at the rallies. We passed out water, squeeze water bottles, doughnuts, balloons and fliers. Everyone was greeted as they came in to the building and and learned more about the UPS campaign kickoff–one of many in the history of UPS that has garnered commitments from employees to continue to Live United. Check out our Facebook album for some photos from the rallies last month at the Greensboro UPS hub.

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High Point’s UPS employees continue to Live United, as well. Last week the High Point UPS customer service center held a “Book and Bag” fundraiser for United Way.  This 100% profit fundraiser consisted of collecting hard and soft back books that were donated along with purses, duffle bags, clutches, backpacks, garment bags, briefcases, fanny packs, cross bodies, attaché cases and luggage.  The gently used merchandise was either bid upon by prospective customers or priced to move! This three day event generated over $550 for United Way. Center supervisor Nicole L’Argent is proud of all the work that the center employees put into making it a successful event!

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Where are you in North Carolina? Find your local United Way as fast as UPS can get that package to your door.

Learn more about what it means to Live United.

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In recent Greensboro news, Judy Schanel will soon begin her position as the new president of Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. She will also be the executive vice president for the Moses Cone Health System.

Judy is currently as a board member and committee chairperson for United Way of Greater Greensboro. Even before embarking on her new responsibilities at Moses Cone Health System, Judy had been investing her time and interest into her community.

We appreciate the local residents who volunteer their time and expertise as they share their enthusiasm, interest and dedication to United Way of Greater Greensboro’s efforts in the Greensboro area.

Interested in volunteering? Check out the links below to learn more on the who, what, when and how on volunteering with us and throughout your community:

Reach out a hand to one and influence the condition of all.
Want to champion a cause or assume leadership on a particular issue?

Source: Moses Cone Hospital Gets New President (8/2/2010)

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Tweet to Win a Free USA TODAY Ad for United Way

As part of its #AmericaWants campaign, USA TODAY is offering a full-page full-color ad (valued at $189,000) to the nonprofit that generates the most Tweets between now and Friday, April 16.  If you want to help, Tweet this to all your contacts and urge them to do the same: #AmericaWants United Way to get a full-page ad in USA TODAY. Please note: Use “United Way,” not a local United Way name, otherwise your Tweets won’t add up. For more information, go to the #AmericaWants website.

Source: United Way Worldwide

By: Aden Hailemariam, Marketing & Communications at United Way of Greater Greensboro

UPDATE: Check out more info here on the USA Today site!

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No more secrets:

Real people tweet for unitedwaygso. They experience experiences, gather information, and share that information to their tweeple.

Ok, first of all, I should probably stop writing in the third-person plural. Second, that was the first time that I have ever typed the word “tweeple.” Tweeps?

Aden | I (Aden Hailemariam) am a Communications Specialist in the Marketing & Communications department at United Way of Greater Greensboro. I manage the social media accounts and do all things marketing. In addition, I coordinate the Latino Professional Forum that has recently become affiliated with United Way of Greater Greensboro. I became a part of the staff here in November of last year and since then it has been an experience that has brought together the names and faces and experiences that I have had since I first came to Greensboro as a freshman at UNCG in 2003. And I still have a way to go!

Lynne | Lynne Brandon is a volunteer with United Way of Greater Greensboro which includes her committee work with UWGG. Oh, and she is so much more! From Lynne’s website, you’ll know that she is a freelance journalist, researcher and reporter with 13 years experience including work as an editor in the publishing world. Her work in corporate communications includes teaching professional development courses, marketing and intranet content front page manager. We appreciate the insight that professionals like Lynne bring to the table in committee work at UWGG. It is the time and dedication of so many types of volunteers that help to achieve progress in assessing and addressing critical issues in our the greater Greensboro area.

With unitedwaygso, we intend for UWGG to connect to the Greensboro community and share its vision, mission and goals that, by design, reflect the concerns of the Greensboro community itself.

Reply to or DM unitedwaygso and let us know what kind of info you’d like to see us tweet or how you think we’ve been tweeting so far.

Look out for ^AH and ^LB!

By: Aden Hailemariam, Marketing & Communications at United Way of Greater Greensboro

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