By using the Pledge Card. Print and complete the pledge card and mail to United Way of Story County, 315 Clark Avenue, Ames, IA 50010. Questions? Please call 515-268-5142 or fax 515-268-5148.
Almost ALL of the 90+ services and initiatives supported by UWSC donors are provided throughout Story County. Statistics are available to give you a snapshot of that county-wide service provision. Please contact UWSC at 515-268-5142 or unitedway@uwstory.org for more information.
The needs that are met by UWSC donors are very similar to needs in surrounding counties. In those counties there are other organizations, similar to UWSC, that are helping meet the needs. If you want to designate your annual campaign gift to the county where you live, it’s very easy. You can still support your workplace campaign by filling out a Designation Card. Simply click on the Annual Campaign tab above. Then click on 2011 Designation card. Download the form, complete it and mail it with your pledge form to the United Way of Story County office. UWSC will send your donation to that county.
We estimate that over 30,000 people who live or work in Story County are utilizing one or more services supported by UWSC donors. You may not know it, but you probably have neighbors, co-workers, family members, or others who are impacted.
Certainly the most important thing is to give. The advantage of giving through UWSC is that, because of our work throughout the community, we are aware of the most pressing needs in Story County. Our process for distributing funds allows us to support specific services that are addressing those needs. So you can be sure your contribution is being used where it will do the most good. We fund services – and agencies that receive funds are accountable that they’re using them to support those services.
UWSC’s administrative overhead is 14.9%. These administrative dollars allow us to operate as a professional business. The Federal government recommends an administrative overhead of 25% or less, and we are in an appropriate range for our size organization.
We pay 1% of our total campaign revenue for membership in United Way Worldwide. That allows us to use the United Way name and logo and also connects us with many valuable resources offered by United Way of America. There are 1200 UW’s across the country and we’re all autonomous, locally governed organizations. United Way of America sets policies for us only in the areas of accountability and licensing of the name and logo.
UWSC is by far the most efficient method to fund services for so little administrative cost to partner agencies that provide services.
For more information on UWSC financial accountability- go to the Financial Accountability page.
Unless designated elsewhere, every contribution supports programs right here in Story County to meet the needs of local people who live and work here. When you discount contributions that are designated out of the county, 99% of contributions stay in Story County, either to fund the 90+ services and initiatives or UWSC.
Though we encourage donors to give to the pool of funds that supports many programs and people, we recognize and respect the wish of some donors to designate or exclude. That can easily be done on a Designation card. Simply click on the Annual Campaign tab above. Then click on 2011 Designation card. Download the form, complete it and mail it with your pledge form to the United Way of Story County office. Designations are on top of allocations that go through the regular process and exclusions truly result in decreased funding to those organizations.
The UWSC Board of Directors passed a nondiscrimination policy on June 26, 2003 and anyone who wishes to see it may contact the UWSC office at 515-268-5142 or at unitedway@uwstory.org under the policies tab. All partner agencies must agree to abide by this policy, and other applicable UWSC policies, when they sign their annual contracts each spring.
