Category: HACAP
United Way and HACAP Food Reservoir – Working together to eliminate hunger
United Way of East Central Iowa focuses on improving the community in three main areas: Health, Financial Stability, and Education. Within Financial Stability we focus on helping those that are food insecure by providing access to food and shelter. One organization that is helping us accomplish this in our community is Hawkeye Area Community Action [...]
‘Hunger Night’ to benefit local service agencies April 12, 2012
Mount Mercy University students in the Emerging Leaders Program are coordinating a community-wide fundraiser to benefit local non-profit organizations. Funds raised from the restaurants on April 12 will benefit four local agencies: Catherine McAuley Center, The ARC of East Central Iowa, Four Oaks, and Hawkeye Area Community Action Program (HACAP), Inc. Food Reservoir. Read more [...]
Volunteering in Eastern Iowa
Katie Geiken, the executive director of the Cedar Rapids Library Foundation, is continuing her volunteering experience this month at HACAP, a United Way partner. Her role this month is ” filling backpack food packs with 5 lbs. of healthy, easy to make food.” You can read more at her Do-Good Dozen blog here.
Join Our Efforts to Help Children Overcome Barriers to Educational Success!
Only 50% of low-income kindergarteners in the United Way service area have the skills they need to start reading; and these children are well behind their higher income peers – because of a variety of barriers that inhibit their likelihood of performing at grade level. And of 50 children having difficulty in kindergarten, 44 will still [...]
Happy Holidays from United Way
United Way is continuously working on improving the community as a whole and we wanted to share some of the good things that are going on in our community this holiday season. Happy Holidays! United Way of East Central Iowa Happy Holidays from United Way Lois Buntz, President & CEO: “Happy [...]
United Way helps fight food insecurity
Food insecurity: 37,000 people are impacted! The economic recession has affected individuals’ employment, which influences a family’s income. Many families that do have jobs are working one or more jobs to meet their basic expenses such as rent, mortgage, utilities, food, and insurance. United Way is helping people gain access to the resources to remain [...]
“Adopt a Family program needs donors for 300 families in need”
“HACAP’s “Adopt a Family Program” needs donors to help some 550 families this Christmas. The agency has only matched a third of those families so far.” CONTINUE READING Source: Eastern Iowa Life, a Gazette/KCRG site
