United Way of Cass-Clay

Passionate, engaged, all-in. Enclave does a great job engaging their team year-round in our work as a LIVE UNITED Partner. From events, volunteering at the School Supply Drive, or grabbing lunch at Hornbacher's, they find tons of great ways to get in involved.

They recently volunteered at our School Supply Drive and had so much fun filling 500 backpacks and making sure kids have the supplies they need this coming school year. More than that, they understand the importance of backpacks and what they provide students - confidence. Thank you, Enclave!

Sandy's Donuts & Coffee Shop created a never-before-seen donut just for United Way - the "Back to School" donut - complete with adorable, colorful (and educational!) letter sprinkles! And the best part is that $5 from every dozen goes back to United Way!

Celebrate back to school by picking up a dozen Sandy's Donuts now through Friday and help local kids.

This year we are celebrating 15 YEARS of the amazing United Way 35 Under 35 Women's Leadership Program. We wanted to take a moment and remember each class. As they truly are worth remembering. Let's continue our trip down memory lane...

Cheers to you, class of 2011! 🎉

We hope you loved your 35 experience, class of 2011, and that you can join us at the 15-Year Celebration on Oct. 24!

Cheers to Valerie Meis, Senior Corporate Relations Manager, on celebrating 5 years making a difference on our team!

Here are 3 things Val provides our team, community, and volunteers each day:
☀️JOY: Val has a contagious joy for the mission of United Way. She is positive, happy, kind, thoughtful, and cheerful.
🤔PERSPECTIVE: New ideas, thinking differently, getting creative, and finding efficiencies - Val does all of this with each project, connection, and meeting.
🙌LEADERSHIP: The amount of care, time, and attention to detail she puts in to connecting with others is what sets Val apart. She leads by example and wants to create authentic, meaningful relationships with everyone. A genuine leader.

Congrats, Valerie Joy! Happy work-a-versary!🎉

The support from the Scheels team is a LIVE UNITED Partner...and oh SO MUCH MORE!! The last two weeks we had over 100 SCHEELS employees use their volunteer hours and “helping hands” through the United Way School Supply Drive - from supply inventory, to bundling pencils, leading quality control, and packing backpacks. This crew does it ALL and goes above & beyond for our community! Thank you, SCHEELS team!

This year we are celebrating 15 YEARS of the amazing United Way 35 Under 35 Women's Leadership Program. We wanted to take a moment and remember each class. As they truly are worth remembering. Let's continue our trip down memory lane...

Cheers to you, class of 2009! 🎉

We hope you loved your 35 experience, class of 2009, and that you can join us at the 15-Year Celebration on Oct. 24!

🎒Are you or someone you know in need of a backpack and school supplies for your K-12 child?

We invite those who need a backpack and school supplies to visit one of our backpack pickup events at the FARGODOME on:

• Wednesday, July 31: 4:30-6 p.m.
• Thursday, August 1: 4:30-6 p.m.
• Friday, August 2: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Click here for more details and hope you can join us!
https://unitedwaycassclay.org/events/school-supply-drive-backpack-pickup/

Hero Sponsors: Essentia Health, Enclave
Confidence Builders: First International Bank & Trust, John Deere, Marvin, Saving Smiles Dentistry, West Acres
Tools for Success: American Crystal Sugar Company, Choice Bank, Collective/Great States Construction, Doosan Bobcat, R.D. Offutt Company, Red River Commodities, Town & Country Credit Union, Widmer Roel
Site Sponsor: FARGODOME
Backpack Sponsor: Scheels
Transportation Sponsor: RDO Truck Centers

Q: What's cuter than a donut with alphabet sprinkles?
A: Seeing a local kid's eyes light up when they get a new backpack and school supplies from United Way! 🍩

Sandy's Donuts & Coffee Shop made an exclusive donut for our School Supply Drive and $5 from every dozen sold will go back to help buy backpacks and school supplies for kids in need!

Stop in to any Sandy's location now through Aug. 10 to get your Back-to-School Donuts or order online for pickup or delivery! https://www.sandysdonuts.com/local-pickup-delivery/

You won't want to miss this year's Fiesta 4 Impact lunch on August 28! Mark your calendar now and make sure to attend this impactful event. 😻
Tickets & Event Details ➡️ https://bit.ly/4aS04Jr
Light Consulting | Bremer Bank

🎒 Today is the last day to drop off donations to help kids through our School Supply Drive. 🎒

The deadline is 5 p.m. – let’s get all those supplies so our hard-working volunteers can get them organized and packed and ready for the hands of local students.

More information and list of places to drop off supplies ➡️ https://unitedwaycassclay.org/get-involved/schoolsupplydrive/

Hero Sponsors: Essentia Health, Enclave
Confidence Builders: First International Bank & Trust, John Deere, Marvin, Saving Smiles Dentistry, West Acres
Tools for Success: American Crystal Sugar Company, Choice Bank, Collective/Great States Construction, Doosan Bobcat, R.D. Offutt Company, Red River Commodities, Town & Country Credit Union, Widmer Roel
Site Sponsor: FARGODOME
Backpack Sponsor: Scheels
Transportation Sponsor: RDO Truck Centers

This year we are celebrating 15 YEARS of the amazing United Way 35 Under 35 Women's Leadership Program. We wanted to take a moment and remember each class. As they truly are worth remembering. Let's continue our trip down memory lane...

Cheers to you, class of 2024! 🎉

We hope you loved your 35 experience, class of 2024, and that you can join us at the 15-Year Celebration on Oct. 24!

One of our favorite things is when we get to sit down with our partners and share our dreams, aspirations, and innovative ideas in supporting families on their pathway to prosperity. And today, we got to do just that!

We sat down with our amazing Community Impact Partners at Jeremiah Program, Fargo-Moorhead, including Laeititia Mizero-Hellerud, their local Executive Director (and also one of our board members!) and Shukurat Adamoh-Faniyan, Chief of Campus Experience from the national Jeremiah Program office.

We're incredibly thankful for our partnership and look forward to continuing to shine a light on our shared vision for the community.

This year we are celebrating 15 YEARS of the amazing United Way 35 Under 35 Women's Leadership Program. We wanted to take a moment and remember each class. As they truly are worth remembering. Let's continue our trip down memory lane...

Cheers to you, class of 2019! 🎉

We hope you loved your 35 experience, class of 2019, and that you can join us at the 15-Year Celebration on Oct. 24!

West Acres is such an amazing, community-centric place! We are so thankful for their support as a LIVE UNITED Partner, as well as the other great ways they make our work possible! Their food court offers a place not only to eat, but also to give back! How, you ask?
🎉 In February, West Acres hosted our Brewing Up Kindness event where volunteers packed care kits for the Great Plains Food Bank.
🎒 If you visit the Food Court this month, you'll see piles of School Supplies as they're serving as a drop off site for the 6,000 backpacks United Way volunteers will pack next week! *Don't forget to drop off your supplies by July 23rd! 😉

We are grateful the West Acres team creates spaces to gather and give back and for their year-round LIVE UNITED Partnership!

"How c**l is that?" If you mean our amazing board members joining our team to spend the day learning, sharing, and leveraging all their shared expertise to further our mission...yes, it is pretty darn cool!! And an afternoon ice cream break too! 🍦

Thank you to our panelists from Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley, Southeast Education Cooperative, and YMCA of the Northern Sky who shared their expertise around Bold Goal 2 and early childhood education.

And thank you to our board members and their organizations who support their involvement.
Mike Arntson Cardinal IG - Fargo, Stacie Heiden and Kimberly Busch Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, Randy Gerhold Bushel, Tiffany Lawrence Sanford Health, Sarah West Light Consulting, Julie Whitney Bremer Bank, Laetitia Mizero Hellerud Jeremiah Program, Fargo-Moorhead, Kelly Dawson, Eric Christianson Enclave, Ashton Hanson Allegro Group, Chad Flanagan Eide Bailly, Lynn Johnson Bell Bank

All students deserve to feel confident and prepared when they walk through the doors on their first day of school.

We invite you to support local students.🎒Just $20 can help 1 student!

Give online now ➡️ https://epledge.uwcc.net/ssd or check out all the ways you can give and get involved here ➡️ unitedwaycassclay.org/schoolsupplydrive

Hero Sponsors: Essentia Health, Enclave
Confidence Builders: First International Bank & Trust, John Deere, Marvin, Saving Smiles Dentistry, West Acres
Tools for Success: American Crystal Sugar Company, Choice Bank, Collective/Great States Construction, Doosan Bobcat, R.D. Offutt Company, Red River Commodities, Town & Country Credit Union, Widmer Roel
Site Sponsor: FARGODOME
Backpack Sponsor: Scheels
Transportation Sponsor: RDO Truck Centers

2024 United Way School Supply Drive - Donation Drive - Now-July 23

Are you the right fit to “grant” our wish?

We are looking for an experienced professional who can take our grants seeking to the next level as our first dedicated Grants Manager. This role will be a critical partner in establishing best practices and processes, and the ongoing securing and maintaining of grants to United Way of Cass-Clay.

The work we do to help our neighbors struggling in poverty is fulfilling – and the right fit is someone who excels at the work and is inspired by our mission. We invite you to learn more about this position, our critical work, and our welcoming team at the link below!
https://unitedwaycassclay.org/about-us/employment/

🌟 Thank you, Microsoft, for being a dedicated LIVE UNITED Partner! Your support and commitment to our community make a huge difference. Winning best costume 2 years in a row at the "United Fore Kids Golf Scramble" shows this team's creativity and embodies what it means to make an impact locally. Here's to continuing our journey together towards a brighter future for Cass and Clay counties!

At United Way of Cass-Clay, we believe everyone deserves access to nutritious food, yet we know that on average nearly 16,000 people in our community, including 6,400 children, experience hunger each year. That’s why this morning we hosted 'Nourishing Our Communities: Solutions to End Hunger Impact Panel' with an incredible group of local leaders who are making a difference in our community every day.

Thank you Michelle Draxten Fargo Cass Public Health, Dre Blotsky Sanford Health, Simone Wai Folkways, and Melissa Sobolik Great Plains Food Bank for bringing awareness to the systems in our community that work to ensure everyone has access to nutritious food.

Together we can make a difference in the lives of our neighbors in need!

We are fortunate to live in a community filled with people from a variety of different backgrounds and cultures. We embrace opportunities to listen, share, and learn with our neighbors. Recently we attended the Somali Heritage Celebration in Broadway Square where Mayor Mahoney proclaimed June 28 as Somali Heritage Day in Fargo.

Eshara, Immigrant Development Center, and Folkways, all partners of ours were involved with bringing this community event to life. New Roots Midwest and the NDSU Somali Student Association also co-hosted the event.

Learn more here: https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/fargos-somali-community-throws-joyful-cultural-celebration-for-all-in-broadway-square

Yesterday our team got the opportunity to connect with other community leaders and service providers in creating an aspirational vision for the future of the Downtown Engagement Center. Our goals as a group included ensuring low barrier access, a welcoming environment, and ensuring a Housing First focus.

Thank you to The City of Fargo - Government for hosting this thoughtful conversation.

FM Coalition to End Homelessness, Presentation Partners in Housing, SENDCAA, YWCA Cass Clay

This year we are celebrating 15 YEARS of the amazing United Way 35 Under 35 Women's Leadership Program. We wanted to take a moment and remember each class. As they truly are worth remembering. Let's continue our trip down memory lane...

Cheers to you, class of 2013! 🎉

We hope you loved your 35 experience, class of 2013, and that you can join us at the 15-Year Celebration on Oct. 24!

We need your help! 🎒 There are over 7,500 spiral notebooks left to purchase on our online wish list for our School Supply Drive.

Shop before Wednesday to help us reach our online goal and send local kids back to school with the supplies they need for a great year!
https://www.roonga.com/2024unitedwayschoolsupplydrive

Come on, community! We can do this! 📕📘📗📙

Shout out to the team at Midco for supporting the community by being a LIVE UNITED Partner! 📣 In addition to providing this generous sponsorship, Midco also shows up for the community through volunteering and employee donations. Thank you, Midco, for your support, and congratulations on your well-deserved spot on the Top 50 Generous list this year!

family, fireworks, food, and freedom = four festive and fun reasons to celebrate the Fourth of July! 🇺🇸