Make a donation of at least $1 per week ($52 per year) during United Way of Marathon County’s Campaign and you will automatically be entered into the sweepstakes.  Sweepstakes entries must be received by 5:00 pm central time, on December 4, 2020. Grand Prize Winner $5,000. Give during your workplace campaign or Click here to donate. Special thanks to Cloverbelt Credit Union, Crystal Finishing, The Dirks Group and UMR for sponsoring the sweepstakes. Without their generosity, this program would not be possible.

For more information and sweepstakes rules visit our website. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you need assistance with leaf raking this fall, you can call United Way's 211 or you can register your yard online here. 

If you are interested in helping to rake leaves, you can register here. Face coverings are strongly recommended in all settings, including outdoors when it is not possible to maintain physical distancing. We recommend groups of 10 or less. We will also need individuals with a truck or trailer to haul bagged leaves to the yard waste sites. Please contact Krista for more details on this opportunity. 

Food insecurity is a growing concern in our area and you can help. You can be a part of the solution. Join us for a virtual United We Can! Join this community fun with your family, church, sports team or business to collect non-perishable food for the Marathon County Hunger Coalition. Use your creativity to build a can sculpture and submit an online photo for a chance to win! Register your company/family group to build a canned food structure by September 9, 2020.  

If you do not wish to build a can structure please consider giving a monetary donation. 100% of all donations go to the Marathon County Hunger Coalition to purchase food for local food pantries. 

Thank you to our 2020 United We Can sponsors: WSAW-TV 7, Fox WZAW, BMO Harris Bank, SUN Printing and UMR. 

 

Watch the WSAW United We Can commercial.

 

At the end of March, we transitioned our staff to work virtually to ensure the health of our office and our volunteers. We partnered with the Community Foundation of Northcentral Wisconsin to raise money for the COVID-19 Community Response Fund. Close to $500,000 was raised  to support programs and services impacted by the pandemic.  In April, the Marathon County Hunger Coalition began delivering food to rural schools because of school closures. In May, we honored and celebrated frontline workers and participated in #givingtuesdaynow. We received more than 5,000 Thank A Healthcare Worker thank you notes and distributed them to local healthcare workers. You can still say thank you by filling out a virtual card. 

In June, we held our Week of Action, transitioning from in-person to virtual and remote volunteer opportunities. During this week, each day was dedicated to a cause and community members could participate from their homes. We also launched Thank a Small Business. Another June thru August success has been our partnership with the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. In cooperation with The Neighbors' Place and the USDA we distributed 1,325 boxes of food, totaling more than 17.8 tons of food and 18,144 bottles of water, with the help of 36 volunteers.

In July, we distributed more than 2,100 masks and participated in public awareness campaigns promoting mask wearing for health and safety. Over the past few months we have hosted virtual education sessions online about COVID-19, mental health, diabetes and fraud prevention.

This past month, we took our Campaign Kick-off event VIRTUAL. United Way of Marathon County presented a LIVE, virtual event to begin our campaign season with volunteer participation and two opportunities to win. Click here to watch.