United Way

United Way of Androscoggin County is a volunteer driven, community problem-solving organization. Central services include volunteer allocation process, local assessment of needs, community building initiatives and information and referral.

Phone: (207) 795-4000
Web site: www.unitedwayandro.org

EXAMPLES OF HOW YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE:

(based on 26 pay periods a year)

• $1 per pay period ($26 per year)
  - Provides hand lenses for Hog Island Seaside Explorers children’s program on Maine Audubon’s Hog Island/Todd Wildlife Sanctuary off the coast of Bremen.(MS)
  - Will provide one Multiple Sclerosis client scholarship to attend a 6-week aquatics class. (CHCM)
  - Provides transportation for one person to substance abuse counseling services for a year. (UW)
• $2 per pay period ($52 per year)
  - Sends a school team of four educators to an MAAE professional development seminar in arts education.(MS)
• $2.00/week
  - provides approximately 920 pounds of food to a food bank or 21 (UW) hot meals delivered to a homebound elderly person.
• $20.00/week
  -provides a child with 10 weeks of child care. (UW)