1. LAUGHS FOR A YEAR
Two tickets to Jr.’s Last Laugh each week for a year!
PEEK’N PEAK GETAWAYS
Enjoy a Winter Ski Getaway and a Summer Golf Getaway!
15,142
CHILDREN
IN ERIE COUNTY
ARE LIVING IN
POVERTY.
LET’S CHANGE THAT.
United Way
of Erie County
For just $3 a week ($156/year), you could
win one of these great incentive prizes!
Give just 50 cents a week ($26/year) more than last
year and you could win a Step-Up Incentive!
$3,000 WEGMANS SHOPPING SPREE
TWO ROUND TRIP AIRLINE TICKETS
$1,000 CITGO CASH CARD
Departing from Erie International Airport, Tom Ridge Field to
anywhere in the continental United States! (Some conditions apply.)
Pledges must be received by April 1, 2013 to be eligible for all United Way
Incentive Prizes. Full eligibility rules are available on UnitedWayErie.org.
DID YOU KNOW?
TOGETHER, WE CAN
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
• Over 26% of Erie County households
have incomes below the Self-Sufficiency
Standard.
• Nearly 40% of the City of Erie’s residents
rely on food stamps for their meals.
• More than one out of ten Erie County
residents 25 and older have not achieved
a high school diploma or GED.
The official registration and financial information of United Way of Erie County
may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free,
within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.
DINNER FOR TWO...FOR A YEAR!
Twelve $50 gift cards good at any Scott Enterprises restaurant.
55” HDTV
Incentive Prize Sponsors:
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$1,000 TARGET GIFT CARD
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2. In one year, your weekly gift
could provide:
$2/week - one month’s worth of food for
a family of four struggling to make
ends meet.
$5/week - eight days of emergency
shelter for a victim of domestic violence.
$10/week - subsidized child care so that
a low-income parent can afford to work.
$20/week - 80 hours of financial
literacy and budgeting classes for
nearly 100 families.
United Way of Erie County’s bold vision will guide all our strategic decisions
as we work to meet our goal by May 17, 2025, exactly 13 years from the date of
Use your smartphone
to scan this image and
TAKE A STAND IN THE
FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY.
Food or gas. Heat or clothing. Daycare or the doctor. These are choices no one should
have to make. Yet nearly one in four of us in Erie County struggle to meet our basic
needs. And those numbers become even more unacceptable when we look at our
children: 15,142 children in our region live in poverty.
In Erie County, we care and know we can do better. That’s why United Way of Erie
County has declared a bold, long-term challenge to reduce poverty in our region:
Reduce the number of families struggling to meet their
basic needs by one-third by May 17, 2025.
We cannot achieve these results alone. We need your help to reach
our goals in Education, Income and Health and achieve our vision of
reducing poverty.
So let’s roll up our sleeves and help people move out of poverty
one by one, family by family, neighborhood by neighborhood.
That’s what it means to LIVE UNITED.
2025 might sound like a long way off, but progress is already being
made. Take Sara, for example. Through the Erie Together anti-pov-
erty initiative, Sara and her family learned to manage their finances
and are becoming self-sufficient. Learn more about her story and
United Way’s vision to reduce poverty by using a smartphone to
scan the QR code to the right, or visit UnitedWayErie.org/sara.
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