Programs Recently Funded

United Way supports local human service agencies and their program(s) through:

• Our granting process depends on citizen volunteers to review agency requests and make funding recommendations. You'll represent the interests of hundreds of donors--yours and your neighbors--holding both United Way and community partner agencies accountable, ensuring priority human service needs are met in Benton County.

• The City of Corvallis contracts with United Way to administer the City Social Service Fund--we need volunteers to make recommendations on these funding requests as well. The review procedures are the same for both processes.
• United Way also provides the administrative staff for the Emergency Food & Shelter Program (EFSP) and functions as fiscal agent for the National FEMA Board. The funds, appropriated by Congress, are used to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas.  A local EFSP Board will determine how to allocate the funds among local non-profit emergency food and shelter programs in Benton County.

Partner Agencies:

Benton Furniture Share: works to improve the lives of low-income Benton County residents by receiving donated furniture and distributing it to households in need.

Benton Hospice:  Benton Hospice Service provides compassionate, professional care at the end of life.  We strive to ease suffering, protect dignity, respect choices, and support grieving.

Boys and Girls Club of Corvallis: provides a safe, supportive and supervised environment for children during the after school hours when juvenile crime rates peak, offering organized programs and activities.

CASA �Voices for Children: recruit, screen and train volunteers to advocate for children who are within the jurisdiction of the State of Oregon in Benton County due to abuse and neglect.

Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence (CARDV): provides shelter and support services in Linn and Benton Counties for victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Commission on Children & Families:  The Oregon Commission on Children and Families is a Partnership of citizens and professionals working together to improve the lives of children and families in Oregon's local communities.  OCCF facilitates and supports local coordinated comprehensive planning for all children and families; promotes systems integration and proves leadership for local and state efforts focused on early childhood.

Community Outreach, Inc.: helping people help themselves; providing emergency assistance, crisis intervention, transitional housing, mental health services, medical and dental services.

Community Services Consortium � Emergency Housing: to help people in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties overcome the causes and conditions of poverty by providing services leading to productive and self-sufficient lives.

Community Services Consortium � Linn-Benton Food Share: eliminate hunger in Linn and Benton counties.

Cornerstone Associates: create meaningful community involvement for people with developmental disabilities.

Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center: provides practical help, with respect and encouragement, for low-income/homeless and mentally ill people in need of a safe environment for socialization, food and shelter, and assistance with resources to help improve quality of life.

Corvallis Environmental Center:  The Edible Corvallis Initiative is a work group of the CEC whose mission is to create a community-based, collaborative initiative to promote an environmentally and economically thriving and socially responsible food-shed in the mid-Willamette Valley.

Dial-a-Bus: a curb-to-curb transportation service for seniors and persons with disabilities.

Girl Scouts of the Santiam Council: dedicated to all girls where in an accepting and nurturing environment, girls build character and skills for success in the real world. Girls develop qualities that will serve them all their lives - strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.

Grace Center for Adult Day Services: promote health, dignity and independence for frail elders, disabled adults and their families.

Home Life: serves adults with developmental disabilities by providing supported living environments; current facilities include 3 homes, a supported living program, and serve 41 clients.

Jackson Street Youth Shelter: Services are for youth 1o to 17 years of age to avoid or end homelessness and by providing emergency shelter.

Janus House : Provides 24-hour residential services and counseling for adults with mental illness.

Linn-Benton Mediation Center: make our communities a safer and healthier place to live, work, and play; to foster the strengthening of individuals, families and our community; to empower individuals to shape their lives and build healthy relationships by resolving conflict and reconciling at-risk relationships through mediation and education/training.

Linn-Benton RSVP: can assist volunteers with finding a good match of their skills and interest with the needs of non-profit organizations or public agencies.

Old Mill Center for Children & Families: a private non-profit agency serving the needs of children and families through specially designed education and therapy programs.

OSU Impact - program designed to develop important skills for children with special needs. More than 80 children aged 6 months to 21 years, divided by age group, are engaged in physical activities-swimming, dancing, throwing balls, playing games, testing their skills on the climbing wall, balancing on a beam. Each child is receiving the individual attention, support, and encouragement of a specially trained OSU undergraduate volunteer or graduate student.

Parent Enhancement Program: builds parenting and life skills by matching teen parents on a one-to-one basis with a trained volunteer mentor.

Philomath Community Services: provides a variety of needed social services to members of the community through the food bank, baby bank, gleaners program and holiday gift basket program.

Philomath Youth Activities Club (PYAC): believes that all children and families should have equal access to all age-appropriate activities. Provides a safe and supportive environment where all children and families experience caring and encouragement.

Presbyterian Preschool and Child Care Center: 13 Years serving families in Corvallis as an outreach program for children six weeks old through pre-kindergarten.

Senior Meals/Meals on Wheels: provides both hot and frozen meals for home delivered meal clients. Also, we serve hot, nutritious meals to those attending our dining rooms.

South Benton Food Pantry: fighting hunger and preserving dignity in greater Monroe.

South Benton Nutrition Program: to aid patrons in meeting their wellness needs and maintaining independence through free hot meals, social contacts, volunteer opportunities and caring mutual assistance.

Strengthening Rural Families: working together to build stronger families and communities in rural Benton County; it works through a rurally based parent education program promoting health families.

Vina Moses Center: provides basic needs for individuals or families in crisis such as food, clothing, medicine, bus tickets and emergency shelter.