Foothills United Way Inc

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2011 to Jun 30, 2012

Signed

Jan 14, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$3,282,800

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Pie program: the pie program addresses the root causes of poverty through systemic economic changes benefitting the working poor. Program participants open individual development accounts (ida's), which are matched savings accounts, designed to help working low-income and low-wealth families save money for continuing education, capitalizing a business or buying a home. The pie mission is to provide tools that empower low-income residents to save and build assets to strengthen their economic stability. The program provides a maximum match of $3,000 towards the asset purchase of each program participant. Participants in the program must be in the pie program for at least 6 months and may stay up to 30 months. Through 2012, the program has graduated 164 participants as follows: 59 first-time home buyers, 64 post-secondary students, and 41 small business start-ups. At june 30, 2012, the program had 43 participants as follows: 12 first-time home buyers, 7 small business start-ups, and 24 post-secondary students.

Activity 3

Imagination library: imagination library was created by the dollywood foundation in 1996 to provide books for preschoolers in sevier county, tennessee. Through enrollment in the library, children ages 0-5 receive a book mailed to their home each month. The foundation works in partnership with local organizations to replicate the program in other communities across the country. In april 2003, a group of interested citizens and organizations came together to bring the program to boulder and broomfield counties. Foothills united way serves as the fiscal agent for the program and maintains the local database. Through june 2012, over 2,274 children have received more than 71,392 books from fhuw's imagination lirary.

Filer

EIN

84-6042598