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Donate to Southern California Wildfire Recovery
Fund
February 2008
With your help, United Way will continue the enduring work of putting
lives and communities back together. What took the fires just a
few days to destroy will take many, many years to rebuild.
Gifts to United Way's Southern California
Wildfire Recovery Fund will support services that bring communities back
better than before (i.e., housing, mental health, quality child care,
job training). United Way's Southern California Wildfire Recovery
Fund will:
- Meet the needs of affected families,
which could include counseling, mental health services, vouchers for
rent, utility assistance, or other services. A committee of
volunteers will be organized to distribute the funds.
- Provide community-wide, long term
recovery. United Ways will activate local volunteer committees
of community leaders to review applications from support agencies
and develop strategies to address the long term needs of the
communities affected.
Donations can be made through United Way
of Santa Barbara County. You can:
Please make a notation on your online
gift form that you want your donation to go to United Way Southern
California Wildfire Recovery Fund.
Or, you
may mail your donation to: United Way of Santa Barbara County,
Southern California Wildfire Recovery Fund, 320 E. Gutierrez Street,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101 |
Wildfire Fund Recovery Update
6/12/2008
As part of its commitment to the people affected by
last summer’s wildfires in California, United Way of San Diego County, United
Way's Fire Fund fiscal agent, announced that it will pay out an additional
$19,631 to fire victims. This amount, plus all of the previous payouts during
the past ten months, represent more than 98% of money that was collected by the
consortium of nine local United Way organizations in response to the fires. The
remaining dollars from the fund will be paid out in the next few months as
requests are reviewed and qualified.
Wildfire Fund Recovery Update
3/13/2008
As of 2/29/08, the regional fund for United Way's Southern
California Wildfire Recovery Fund has pledges and gifts totaling $685,595.44. As
a regional community service, all of the Southern California United Way
organizations have agreed to not charge any administrative costs for the Fire
Relief Fund.
Organizations receiving funds are as follows:
| Vista Hill |
Provides mental health treatment for
students with serious mental health issues. Services are provided at
schools and at home. All served are low income. Services are
for several hundred students in the Ramona area who lost their homes.
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| Community Housing Works
(fiscal agent for Farm Worker Care Coalition, a collaboration of
organizations that serve agricultural workers in North County) |
Funds will be used for rental
assistance, food relief, transportation, health assistance, health
education outreach, clothing assistance and general financial assistance
for those affected by the fires. |
| Salvation Army |
Will provide basic needs and assistance
in creating a plan for victims to move forward with their lives, which
includes clean up, rebuilding, and financial assistance to those who
lost their homes in the fires. |
| Deaf Community Services |
Provided sign language interpreters at
all evacuation centers. |
| Armed Services YMCA |
Provided 687 families that lost power in
evacuated areas emergency food certificates |
| Interfaith Community
Services |
Serves low income individuals, providing
home/yard clean up for senior households; rental assistance,
prescription assistance, and any health problems caused by the fires. |
| Camp HOPE |
Program is a residential camp for
children that have been impacted by domestic violence. The fire
destroyed the camp's tents, platforms, campfire area, stage and fencing,
as well as all of the program's equipment, which included boats, kitchen
equipment, craft supplies, furniture and sleeping bags.
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| Travelers Aid Society of
San Diego |
Provides transportation and gasoline
vouchers to those in need, as well as transportation for medical
purposes, as well as other disaster related services. |
| Burn Institute |
Provides burn survivors and their
families with services during their physical and emotional road to
recovery. Services provided include rehabilitation and long-term
psychosocial needs. Also provided will be sponsorships to the
World Burn Congress, an international gathering of burn survivors.
At this event, survivors find peer support sessions, counseling,
fellowship and other recovery services not covered by insurance. |
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