In this issue:

Success Story 1

Did You Know 1

Shout Outs 2

Something New 4

Having major surgery is tough, but for me, it nearly put me out on the street. My name is Joe and I want to tell you how United Way and 2-1-1 Texas helped me get back on my feet. I’d been working at my company for about a year when suddenly I needed an emergency quadruple bypass. I had a little money in my savings, but after co-pays and all the other medical expenses, those savings were wiped out. The doctors couldn’t clear me for work until I had recovered 100%, so I had to let go of my apartment and rent a room at a friend’s house. My family helped me out as much as they could, but that wasn’t enough. I didn’t know where to turn. That’s when I heard about United Way’s 2-1-1 Texas. The 2-1-1 staff made arrangements with program providers to get me the medication I needed. They also gave me 7 other referrals to budgeting classes, housing assistance, and food pantries. It was amazing. I didn’t know we had that kind of help available. Finally, my doctors cleared me to go back to work. Getting back on track would have been impossible without 2-1-1 Texas. Thanks to your gift to United Way, services like 2-1-1 Texas are able to provide vital assistance to those in need in Amarillo and Canyon.

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Special points of interest:

Upcoming Events

Shouts to our program providers!

Youth Cabinet

What’s New

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The polio vaccine was a $7 billion

dollar idea! Jonas Salk left a vaccine

to remember but never put a patent

on it. When asked why he simply

stated “can you patent the sun?” His

“loss” of a patent would have given

him a “gain” of approximately $7

billion dollars! His vaccine has

been a vital part of immunizations

since the early 1950’s and

continues to be today. Jonas Salk

passed away before completing his

findings on a vaccine for AIDS.

Did you know?

2-1-1 Texas saved Joe from homelessness...

Community Shout Outs!!

The Neal and Clements Unit of TDCF held some ral-

lies where team members were dunked for dona-

tions! What a great idea and super fun way to en-

courage employees to participate. Thank you guys !!

The month of September was super busy but so fun

and inspirational! NWTH executive staff was busy fir-

ing up the grill for their rally! You could smell the deli-

cious burgers all over Amarillo!

Thank you NWTH!

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This year our Leadership Givers were thanked with an

elegant evening of dinner, drinks and music. The event

was catered by Macaroni Joes and the venue was the

lovely home of Deborah & Wrus Weston. Thank you

for opening your home to us!

We were also able to have a second Leadership Event

downtown where FirstBank Southwest cook out team

served up hamburgers in the ANB courtyard. Special

thanks to Melissa Moore of Pantex, Teresa Soria of

Amarillo National Bank and Smith Ellis of FirstBank

Southwest on making this event a success.

Huge thanks to all who participated in this years Shop

United in Wolflin Square. We loved seeing all the shop-

pers at Lilly Finch & Semblance.

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LOOK OUT! There is a new

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and we are putting FUN back

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2014!

The new website features an

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makes it easier for you to give at

any level. We have updated our

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work as a community hub for

non-profit agencies in listing their

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our fantastic loaned executive

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