UWNEMN's mission is to unite and focus our communities, creating measurable results. When there’s a need, UWNEMN springs to action, mobilizing volunteers and donors to address the need or creating programs to fill service gaps. We invest in programs that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in the areas of youth opportunity, healthy community, community resiliency, and financial stability. UWNEMN’s programs include Buddy Backpacks, Imagination Library, Smiles United, Lunch Buddies, and United for Veterans.

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Gift Examples

• $3 per pay period provides 26 free books delivered directly to the homes of northeastern Minnesota children to increase early literacy through UWNEMN’s Imagination Library program.
• $5 per pay period provides one complete holiday meal basket delivered to a homebound, low-income veteran and their family members.
• $10 per pay period provides 29 nutritious, nonperishable, child-friendly meal kits to northeastern Minnesota children at risk of going hungry over the weekends through UWNEMN's Buddy Backpacks program.
• $20 per pay period provides two uninsured families with children with complete dental care for the entire year through UWNEMN’s Smiles United preventive and restorative dental care program.

Designation Policy

Accepts to any 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.

Administration Fee

• 0% administration fee for affiliated partner agencies
• 11% administration fee for non-partner agencies

Primary Region

Northeast

Affiliates

• Advocates for Family Peace
• American Red Cross
• Aurora-Biwabik Food Shelf – AEOA
• Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Elderly Nutrition Program
• Boys & Girls Club of Hibbing
• Camp Chicagami
• Care Partners
• Check & Connect
• Children’s Dental Services
• Chisholm Food Shelf
• Citizens for Backus AB, Inc.
• Cook Community Food Shelf
• Ely Community Health Center
• Ely Community Resource
• Ely Food Shelf – AEOA
• Floodwood Food Shelf – AEOA
• Friends Against Abuse
• Girl Scouts of MN & WI Lakes and Pines
• Habitat for Humanity – Northern St. Louis County
• Iron Range Partnership for Sustainability
• Justice North
• Koochiching Aging Options
• Koochiching County Food Access
• Lake of the Woods Food Shelf
• Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance
• Mesabi Fit
• Neighbors Helping Neighbors – Nashwauk
• Northwoods Partners
• Project Care
• Quad City Food Shelf – AEOA
• Range Transitional Housing
• Second Harvest Northland Food Bank
• ServeMinnesota Reading Corps
• Sexual Assault Program of Northern St. Louis County
• Star of the North Maternity Home
• Support Within Reach
• Salvation Army – Hibbing
• Salvation Army – International Falls
• Scouting America – Northern Star Council
• Tower Food Shelf – AEOA
• Volunteers in Education (VinE)
• United Way 2-1-1

Contact

Erin Shay, Executive Director
218-254-3329
erin@unitedwaynemn.org