JFGorges
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A BIG thank you to Black Hills Energy for holding their annual golf fundraiser for United Way of the Plains! 📷 All the proceeds are going to support vital programs across south central Kansas that help our neighbors. #ForceForGood
A big thank you to J.P. Weigand & Sons, Inc. REALTORS for making us a charity partner at your golf tournament! Thanks to you, we are able to reach more people and create greater impact that benefits everyone in south central Kansas. #ForceForGood #LiveUnited #WeigandCares
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.” I’m grateful to live in a city where so many “voted” today to help others. #DayOfActionICT 💪🙏
These are your 2024 Promise on the Plains grant recipients: 🔸The Center 🔸Community Operations Recovery Empowerment Inc. 🔸Gift of Chess 🔸HOPE Helping Other People Excel 🔸TKAAM - The Kansas African American Museum 🔸La Familia Senior/Community Center 🔸Prairie Rose Wellbriety Foundation 🔸Progressive Community Outreach Program 🔸Urban League Of Kansas Inc 🔸Wichita Indochinese Center
Our free tax prep volunteers are first class 💝 During the regular tax filing season, volunteers helped 5,500+ families with no-cost tax prep services. The impact was in the millions! Thank you to all of our VITA tax prep volunteers. #ForceForGood
Today we took a moment to thank one of our Top 10 workplace campaigns, City of Wichita. Thanks to the donations from the city's staff, we are able to help provide resources to our neighbors and grants to other nonprofits working to strengthen the social services safety net. #ForceForGood
This is what we love to see 🥰📚 We had the pleasure of sharing thousands of books to kindergarten through third grade Wichita Public School's students in Shocker Neighbor. Thank you @champsforlit , @GoShockers, International Paper and all of you who support this program. What a great impact we all made! #ForceForGood
Tonight, we had the privilege of recognizing these philanthropic leaders whose ongoing legacy of generosity is making a significant impact on our community. 🔷 Spirit of Giving: Helen & Russ Meyer 🔷 Spirit of Service: Paul Allen, AGH, LLC 🔷Spirit of Service: Richard Kerschen, The Law Company Inc. #ForceForGood
This has us with all the feels 🥰 We surprised students at @WichitaUSD259 and @USD265_Goddard with our Aaron Joel Smith Memorial Scholarship, an award given to students who are making a difference through volunteering. Congrats to Lakshishree, Angela and Isaiaz! #ForceForGood
Every dollar donated becomes $2.37 worth of impact! When you give to United Way of the Plains, we multiply your gift by creating efficiencies, leveraging resources, building relationships, and serving as policy experts across all business sectors to drive social impact in our community. In addition to operating our own programs that add value and meet the community’s most pressing needs, we also fund charitable partners who augment the collective work we are all doing to help our neighbors and lift our community. #ForceForGood
