Campaign Chair Letter

Dear Friend,

United Way has been at the center of social change for more than a century nationally and in Citrus County since 1986. Recently all 1400 independent, local United Ways announced national goals to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

Goals for the Common Good: The United Way Challenge to America sets three bold goals for where the nation should be by 2018:

Cutting the number of students who dropout by half requires improved readiness to start school and closer attention to students as they move through the school system.
Cutting the number of financially unstable working families by half requires strategies to help people increase income, save, and grow long-term assets.
Increasing by one-third the percentage of healthy youth and adults requires that more Americans have access to health coverage and to good primary care from (and even before) birth, as well as the resources to avoid or stop substance abuse and other risky behaviors.

Improvements in education, income and health will only come, however, through greater civic engagement in the form of increased giving, advocacy and volunteering. In order to achieve visibility and action toward these ambitious goals, United Way of Citrus County is calling to action everyone to become part of the change, for everyone to LIVE UNITED™.

We need your help to inspire hope and create opportunities for a better tomorrow in our community. Thank you for everything you do.

Sincerely,