Focus | United Way injects stimulus

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  Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Note to Readers: AFP.com editor Chris Graham serves on the board of directors of the United Way of Greater Augusta. The United Way of Greater Augusta’s decision to release $50,000 in reserves to local nonprofits in the form of mini-grants couldn’t have come at a better time for employees…

United Way campaign info in mailboxes this week

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   Staff Report United Way online: www.unitedwayga.org The United Way of Greater Augusta is teaming up with Smart Media on a public-awareness effort aimed at getting attention for the annual United Way campaign. The Smart Media advertising mailer for December will feature information on the United Way campaign. The mailer will be in mailboxes beginning…

United Way, Dolly Parton teaming up to get books in kids’ hands

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My mother made sure books were around for her to read to me, and when she discovered just before I turned 3 that I could read on my own, I could read them to her. Education starts young, indeed, and that’s the idea behind the United Way of Greater Augusta collaboration with Dolly Parton’s Imagination…

Staunton: United Way kicks off ’08 campaign

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I wasn’t the only one new to fundraising campaigns in the room at yesterday’s local United Way of Greater Augusta campaign kickoff. “When I consider the huge number of people who depend upon the services supported by United Way, and the agencies and organizations that partner with the United…