- By: Chip Tate, Executive Director, United Way of the Coalfield
It’s that time of the year again where your local United Way of the Coalfield is in full campaign mode to raise the money needed to support our partner agencies.
As you have probably noticed from our campaign signs around town, this year’s campaign motto is “It’s not about meeting a goals, it’s about meeting a need”. I mention our motto because the “Need” has grown over the last few years and meeting that “Need” has presented a challenge to those organizations faced with serving those individuals, children, families and seniors in crisis.
The primary focus of the United Way and our partner agencies is on the area of health and human services. Our focus is and will continue to be on programs that strive to meet basic human necessities, increasing self-sufficiency, nurturing youth & children, promoting health & wellness and strengthening families. Continue reading
There were balloons and watermelons and balloons and watermelons. Did I mention there were balloons and watermelons? The “Campaign Kick-Off” went well thanks to the good citizens of Madisonville-Hopkins County.
There were United Way balloons in the air and a gas grill was raffled off and fun for the family at our partner agency booths. It was a beautiful evening in downtown Madisonville for the final Friday Night Live event of the year and a big thank you goes out to all those involved that made the event a huge success. So everyone start working up an appetite for next year’s watermelon eating contest!
