Women United Flagler Chapter

Description

Women United Flagler is a chapter of United Way of Volusia/Flagler Counties with over 50 active members who give, advocate and volunteer. Women United Flagler's mission is to create positive, measurable, long term change in the lives of women and children of Flagler County by focusing on root causes and pooling resources to increase our impact. Funds raised through Women United go to help women and children above and beyond the normal activities of the United Way with 80% allocated by Women’s United and 20% going to the United Way Community Fund. Over the course of 2013, we have had many successes between our volunteer work and socials raising money for grants distributed to agencies who apply. We have held a total of four socials this year—some purely fundraisers and others FRIENDraisers. Our signature event, The Power of the Purse was sold out and raised over $12,000. We also teamed up with Florida Hospital Flagler and Flagler Free Clinic and held a High Tea and raised over $18,000. We are well known for Chicks with Cans in Flagler County which stand outside local Publix’s and collect food for local food pantries. We hold our food drive twice a year; the spring drive is focused to restock local food pantries for the summer, when school is out of session and the Fall drive is dedicated to Team Feed Flagler, which we have remained 1st place winners since it began in 2010. All monetary donations are used to purchase food through second harvest food bank. It is estimate