GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC
945 TECHNOLOGY BLVD 101F, BOZEMAN, MT 59718 www.greatergallatinunitedway.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. We accomplish this mission through forging innovative partnerships, finding new solutions to old problems, cultivating the best resources, and by inspiring individuals to join the fight against our communities' most daunting challenges. Greater Gallatin United Way envisions local communities where all individuals and families achieve their full potential through education, income stability, and healthy living.

Greater Gallatin United Way envisions local communities where all individuals and families achieve their full potential through education, income stability, and healthy living.

ONE Organization, UNITED Effort, GREAT ResultsGreater Gallatin United Way (GGUW) is local, well-governed by volunteers, and has been an essential and vibrant supporter of the community. Greater Gallatin United Way fights for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in the greater Gallatin community. The Organization takes a collective approach to community problem solving and serves people in Park, Madison, Meagher and Gallatin County, Montana. The Agency was incorporated with the State of Montana on December 19, 1978. GGUW is a community leader in collective impact-driven work. To achieve our mission, we identify priority community issues around Health, Education and Income utilize a strategic plan that directs GGUW to listen to the community and to provide leadership when warranted secure resources through an annual fundraising campaign, other programmatic fundraisers, disaster relief funds, grant writing, utilizing existing community assets and developing innovative partnerships convene individuals, businesses, nonprofits and government to work collectively targeting root causes and address the communitys most pressing needs provide essential funding through our Community Investment/Impact process to vetted partner programs, ensuring donors that their dollars are wisely invested to make the most impact mobilize community members, businesses and their workforce to get involved by giving, advocating and/or volunteeringAs a centralized philanthropy, we believe that real long-term change is best generated by a united effort, working collectively through a common agenda. When nonprofits are equipped to effectively collaborate, duplication is reduced and each partners contribution multiplies to deliver greater results for the community.Greater Gallatin United Way works on tough issues because...- - Poverty is not a distant issue. It exists right here.- - Mental illness is not a distant issue. It exists right here.- - Illiteracy is not a distant issue. It exists right here.- - Disaster impact is not a distant issue. It exists right here.No one organization alone in isolation can solve complex community problems. The only way we can create real, lasting change is by working together through Collective Impact. Collective Impact requires that everyone work together in partnership businesses, cities, government, schools, churches, foundations, and non-profit organizations to tackle our most pressing challenges and develop lasting solutions. Greater Gallatin United Way focuses on 4 Community Impact Areas: I. Basic Needs - Ensuring basic needs are met, including during times of disaster/crisisII. Children and Youth Success Ensuring children and youth consistently get a strong start and have a solid foundation for success in school, work, and life. III. Senior Stability Ensuring older adults feel valued as community members and their physical and mental well-being needs are met.IV. Behavioral Health and Well-Being Cultivating individual resiliency by creating a collective shift in the communitys understanding of mental health and behavioral health as a component of whole person health.Our strategies to ensure Basic Needs are met:- - End homelessness and advance affordable housing options (U.S. Government defines affordable housing as housing that consumes 30% or less of a household's income)- - Eliminate food insecurity- - Access to affordable health care- - Promote 2-1-1 / Suicide and Crisis Hotline + resource coordination and access to resources- - Work collectively to ensure strong safety net for peoples basic needs during times of disaster/crisisOur strategies for Children and Youth Success:- - Early literacy; children entering kindergarten ready learn - - Grade level reading by 3rd grade (a key measure of a childs academic success, and a strong predictor of high school graduation) - - Access to quality affordable early child care, 0-5 years (Child care is considered affordable if it is less than 10% of total income)- - Access to quality affordable out-of-school-time care / summer programming, 5+ years- - Empower/support families ability to care for their children during times of disaster/crisisOur strategies for Senior Stability:- - Enhance senior mental and physical well-being- - Provide opportunities to reduce isolation especially during times of disaster/crisis- - Help seniors remain independent as long as possible- - Promote end-of-life education and support for seniors and care giversOur strategies around Mental Health and Well-Being:- - Community outreach, education and awareness about mental health, mental well-being and mental illness- - Combat human trafficking and abuse and support for survivors- - Quality professional development, including burnout prevention for care providers- - Access to mental health resources and services especially during times of disaster/crisisGGUW Program Services & ImpactOur work addresses the quality of life for the whole community, from babies to seniors.1. Community Investment/Impact: We mobilize the caring power of the community and invest funds in over 50 local tax-exempt programs and initiatives that are effective, accountable and demonstrate positive results for the people served. GGUW funding is aimed at combating poverty and supporting education and health initiatives. Supporting seniors to reduce isolation and loneliness and supporting basic needs to lift up all those who are homeless, hungry or struggling financially are prioritized areas for GGUW funding. 2. COVID-19 Relief: GGUW partnered with One Valley Community Foundation (OVCF) and Southwest Montana Community Organizations Active in Disaster (SWMT COAD) in mid-March 2020 to create a jointly managed Relief Fund for the pandemic. An initial goal of raising and allocating $500,000 was met and as community needs continue to rise, the partnership continues to raise and allocate funding for basic needs such as shelter, rental assistance, food, access to primary care and behavioral health care, child care, provider burnout prevention support, COVID transmission prevention, and operational support for non-profits providing essential services. 3. kidsLINK Afterschool provided a safe, healthy, enriching environment up until the COVID pandemic for more than 1,600 youth on a daily basis at 33 sites in four counties. During the pandemic, kidsLINK programming pivoted to provide full-day, emergency childcare programming for essential workers in the spring/fall 2020 and then evolved again to provide full-day microschool programming as well as afterschool programming in some locations. 4. Early Childhood Community Council supports youth ages 0-8 and their families by bringing together diverse stakeholders working together to support strong, healthy families and to engage Montanas early childhood partners to improve access to affordable, quality child care even throughout the pandemic and access to mental health services for young children and families in our rural communities. 5. Dolly Parton Imagination Library provides free books to more than 800 children to promote childhood early literacy skills-development and a love reading and learning. Children 0-4 years old may enroll and receive 1 book delivered to their mailbox each month; for children starting at birth they build a personal library of 60 books by the time they enter Kindergarten. GGUW promotes recruitment of the program for all children in Gallatin County and raises funds for the costs of shipping the books to each child with a goal of reaching a minimum of 2,000 children annually by 2023. With childrens learning opportunities more limited due to the pandemic, the DPIL book distribution program has become even more important.6. The Resilience Project is a behavioral health and mental wellbeing initiative of Greater Gallatin United Way which aims to build a healthier and more resilient community through a shift to a new collective mindset about behavioral health and mental well-being and how to improve whole-person health. Efforts include delivering resilience workshops to broad and diverse audiences to normalize mental health as a component of whole-person health. GGUW Resilience Project activities shifted in the spring of 2020 to offer online programming to address new stresses, fears, and difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 7. Behavioral Health Community Coalition Support and Leadership - GGUW is actively engaged with three community coalitions - LiveWell49, Gallatin County Mental Health Local Advisory Committee, and Elevating Behavioral Health - and provides leadership support for collective efforts. These efforts include advocating for behavioral health at local, state, and federal levels, building broad awareness and utilization of Help Center 2-1-1; and deploying a multi-media campaign called Man Therapy to build awareness of behavioral health. 8. Volunteer Connections / Volunteermt.org - This GGUW initiative is to build volunteer engagement by pro

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