2009 Campaign Achievement!

2009 was an amazing year.  United Way achieved a spectacular $1.53 million campaign! That represents just under a 10% increase from last year's result ($1.4 million).  Click here to see all our Campaign Award Winners, our Top Ten Corporations and our 50 Finest Winners!

We have been making a difference in our community for 50 years by assessing local needs and distributing resources to help those most in need.  Your donation helps people who are abused and people who are addicted.  You help families in distress and support troubled children and youth.  You help the mentally ill, the terminally ill, and people who care for them.

Current Job Postings:

• Chief Executive Officer Job Posting

Ages Award Gala for Exceptional Seniors 2010

Do you know of a Deserving Senior who has enriched lives through:

• ACTIVE LIVING / FITNESS / SPORTS
• VOLUNTEER/ COMMUNITY SERVICE
• ARTS / LEISURE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
• PHILANTHROPIC ENTREPRENEURIALACTIVITIES OR
• ENVIRONMENT HEROISM?

Nominate them for an Exceptional Seniors Award....click here

Helping Haiti

With estimates that as many as 3 million people in Haiti have been affected by the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010, the loss is astounding.  Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive announced on Monday that over 70,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves and Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime estimates that between 100,000 and 200,000 people have died as a result of the disaster.

United Ways across the country and around the world are rallying to assist the people in Haita respond.  If you would like to donate to help the people affected by the earthquake you can visit United Way Worldwide disaster fund at https://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwwwdisasster/donate/

Cheques can also be sent to the following with the Fund reference in either memo line or enclosed correspondence.

United Way Worldwide

P.O. Box  630568

Baltimore.  MD  21263-0568

United Way Worldwide is working through its members and other partners in Haiti to respond to this disaster.  Gifts to the United Way Disaster Fund support recovery and long-term rebuilding needs of devastated Haitian communities. 

HOMELESSNESS PARTNERING STRATEGY

As part of a two-year demonstration project, the United Way of Greater Simcoe County was selected as the Community Entity (CE) for the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) Outreach Communities component in Ontario. 

To apply for funding through this initiative in English...click here.  In French....click here.

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Deputy Commissioner Chris Lewis Talk to Georgian College Students

     We Won! 

    United Way CEO Seija Suutari and Board   Chair Joanne McPhail receive the Bell  Canada Community Award from Melisa Djebbari, Manager of Community Relations, Bell Canada

3rd Annual Warden's Gala a

resounding success!!

Host Warden Tony Guergis seen here with County of Simcoe CAO Mark Aitken, United Way CEO Seija Suutari,  United Way Cabinet member L Col Robert Hart,CFBB,  6 Time Canadian Figure Skating Champion and Honourary Chair, Jennifer Robinson and A TV's Lance Chilton.