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Heart of West Michigan United Way Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Back to work....
Heart of West Michigan United Way Be sure to check out the 2009 United Way Thanksgiving Day Halftime Show! It will occur during the first game of the NFL’s Thanksgiving tripleheader when the Lions host the Packers on Thurs., Nov. 26 at 12:30 PM on FOX. The show is a Motown 50th Anniversary Tribute featuring talents from the current Universal Motown Records roster performing Motown classics.
Heart of West Michigan United Way Good bye to our Campaign Account Reps :( Thanks for all your hard work. Couldn't have done it without you. We will miss you!
Heart of West Michigan United Way Almost ready to go live with our new website! Been working on it forever. More updates soon...
Heart of West Michigan United Way Our 2-1-1 Center took calls to assist the Kent County Health Department with the H1N1 vaccine appointments and made over 14,000 appointments in 4 days!
Heart of West Michigan United Way “Across Michigan, 18,488 children were homeless last year. Among them, the average age was 7. Children make up one-third of the total homeless population in West Michigan. For the five-county region, 4,333 children experienced homelessness, enough to fill 56 school buses.” -GR Press 10/19/09
"I want for you to understand that your assistance saved my life. I needed help with a medication for my heart condition that could have killed me without a resource to get it on the same day that I returned from the hospital...
Heart of West Michigan United Way We just received an award from the Michigan Association of Health Plans for our role as a collaborator with the Children’s Health Care Access Program Pilot. We are so excited and will continue the journey towards our collaborative vision of helping all children access quality healthcare.
Heart of West Michigan United Way Check out the Artist statement from our artist, Erika Magers, in our Notes section.
Heart of West Michigan United Way Voting begins at 6PM. To vote UP for the HWMUW Artist, text 32281. To vote DOWN for the HWMUW Artist, text 32280. To visit the page for the artist, go here: http://artprize.org/artist/id/334
ArtPrize - Erika Magers - An open art contest based in Grand Rapids Michigan, the world's largest Ar
artprize.org
Description of work: This work will be a collection of portraits of everyday people. Accompanying their images will be text derived from conversations the artist and subject have during the painting sessions. ...
Heart of West Michigan United Way just posted pictures of our Art Prize and the installation. Check them out and let us know what you think. Don't forget to vote!
Heart of West Michigan United Way Art Prize installation going on as we type this! HWMUW is excited to be a part of Art Prize. Come check it out, the art is in our front windows.
Heart of West Michigan United Way The 2009 Day of Caring, held on September 11th, featured 1600 volunteers. These volunteers, collectively, had over 5000 hours of service!
The 2009 Day of Caring was held on September 11, 2009, corresponding with the national Day of Service recently signed into law by President Obama. Over 1600 volunteers from over 47 companies and 70 agencies and schools participated in 91 different service projects...
