Volunteers

Volunteers govern each of the United Way agencies, setting their policies and planning for the future of each agency including which services and programs will be provided to the Mahaska County area. Board members also ensure the financial accountability of their agency, overseeing budget development and review, and raising funds or seeing that funds are available for operations. They also act as representative of the agency in the community.

Volunteers serve in many other roles. They respond to crisis, raise money, and share information. They teach, they consol, and they inspire. They build, they serve meals to children and seniors; they administer to the sick and weary. Volunteers lead by example to the youth of our community. They forge bonds of friendship and build bridges of compassion and understanding. They provide a caring heart, an arm to lean on, and a helping hand to those who need it.

Last year alone, more than 1,600 volunteers provided more than 61,000 hours of service to United Way agencies. Do these volunteers make a difference, you bet. Not only do these volunteers perform services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, they touch lives in ways that cannot be measured with a dollar amount. Thank you, volunteers, on behalf of United Way and its agencies.

If you would like more information about United Way and how our volunteers are helping in this community or would like to be a volunteer, please call 673-6043.

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – that is to have succeeded.”

VOLUNTEER TODAY!