OPEN YOUR HEART
LEND YOUR MUSCLE
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
Finney County United Way, Inc.
1511 Fulton Terrace
Garden City, KS 67846
Consuelo Sandoval
Executive Director
(620)275-1425
(620)276-3290 Fax
Applications for Funding
Applications for funding are available and due on Friday April 1, at 4:00pm.
Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All
Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
That's why United Way's work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:
- Education - Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
- Income - Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
- Health - Improving People's Health
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.
United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.
Give Now
Through the Finney County United Way your gift is multiplied, as trained volunteers effectively address needs in our community. We make your caring count by identifying the greatest needs, meeting those needs, and showing measureable results. Your United Way gift stays local, working to improve lives in Finney County.
Our Goals to Giving
Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health. That's why United Way's work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:
Education - Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
Income - Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
Health - Improving People's Health
Live United in Your Community
With over 20 partner agencies in the Finney County area alone, providing services to children through senior citizens, from everyday activities to disaster response, there are many ways that everyone can open their hearts and lend their muscles!
Five Things You Can Do
1. Donate money.
2. Volunteer with a partner agency.
3. Advocate United Way support to your business.
4. Get your friends to join.
5. Help communicate our goals to community leaders.
VOLUNTEER IN » Finney County
Smart Start
Focus Areas include; 1) Increasing availability and access to local community support and services, 2) Increase availability and affordability of Early Learning Opportunities, and 3) Increasing availability and affordability of quality child care.
Kansas Children's Service League Head Start
Providing center-based and home-based Head Start service that help low-income children reach their potential. Foster care & adoption services available also.
Meals on Wheels
This program is to enhance the nutritional health of the Finney County homebound and to continue to offer free meals to persons of limited means.
Community Day Care
Providing quality day care to children ages 2 wks. to 10 yrs., with fees for children 2 1/2 and older based on a sliding scale to serve all income levels.
