United Way of Southeast Minnesota unites people and resources to improve lives in our community. We fight for the health, education, and financial stability of everyone in Olmsted, Dodge, Fillmore, and Winona Counties. We operate programs and shared resources; work collaboratively to create systems change; and support to local programs.

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Gift Examples

What Your Dollar Can Do (over 26 pay periods)

Contribution per pay period:

• $10 - Gifts a student a backpack full of school supplies
• $25 - Provides a year of books to a child through United Way's partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
• $50 - Helps und free tax services for 10 households through United Way's collaboration with VITA
• $100 - Supports 15 local students through United Way's Community Schools partnership, providing access to food shelves, resource rooms, and health services

Designation Policy

You may designate all or a portion of your United Way contribution to any 501(c)3tax-exempt organization.

Administration Fee

10% Administration Fee applied if gift is designated outside of United Way of Olmsted County.

Primary Region

Southeast

Affiliated Charities

• Ability Building Community
• Barbershop & Social Services
• Bear Creek Services
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern MN
• Byron Public Schools
• Catholic Charities of Southern MN
• Center City Housing
• Change You
• Channel One
• Childrens Dental Health Service
• Community Health Service, Inc
• Damascus Way Re-Entry Center
• Dodge County DARE
• Elder Network
• Ethiopian Community of Rochester
• Faith in Action Dodge County
• Families First of Minnesota
• Family Promise Rochester
• Family Service Rochester
• Good News Children's Center
• Healthy Smiles
• IMAA
• Infants Remembered in Silence (IRIS)
• Intermix Project
• Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch
• Journie
• Legal Assistance of Olmsted County
• Life and Community Development
• NAMI Southeast MN
• Pamoja Women
• Recovery is Happening
• RideAbility
• Salvation Army
• Semcac
• Sisters Save Sisters
• Sports Mentorship Academy
• The ARC MN
• Women's Shelter and Support Center
• Zumbro Valley Medical Society Foundation

Contact

Elissa Sherden
507-529-4830
elissas@uwsemn.org