BY JOHN BAILEY
Catawba County United Way
(The following is commentary based off recently helping at the 2020 Point in Time Count.)
Willing and Able to Help…that’s what I hope I am every day I go to work at the Catawba County United Way.
At any given moment, I can get a call from someone who is facing eviction, a medical crisis, abuse or is just looking for a meal. We do the best we can to steer people to local programs to meet their needs.…
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BY JOHN BAILEY
Catawba County United Way
HICKORY – In her mid-40s, Keisha Singletary decided she’d had enough of the lifestyle that had left her hooked on drugs, in an unhealthy relationship and incarcerated for six years.
“I wanted to know how it feels to be productive and to live sober and to be happy,” she said.
So, in March of 2019, Singletary decided to go back to The Salvation Army’s Shelter of Hope, a Catawba County United Way funded…
BY JOHN BAILEY
jbailey@ccunitedway.com
HICKORY – Last year, more than 9,319 calls were placed to the United Way’s 2-1-1 community help line asking for information about low-cost housing while more than 12,000 calls were made about shelters, according to nc.211counts.org.
In Catawba County those numbers were 164 and 111, respectively and again only represent calls to 2-1-1 and not the total need.
To help understand the scope of the issue in…
The Catawba County United Way (CCUW) is accepting Notices of Intent to apply for funding for 2021.
This Notice of Intent is due on Monday, Feb. 3 by 5 p.m.
If your Notice of Intent is accepted, you’ll be asked to attend training to prepare you to fill out a pre-Request for Funding Proposal (pre-RFP) on Feb. 5 at 8:30 a.m.
Pre-Requests for funding are accepted through electronic submission to the CCUW website and requires individual, pre-assigned…