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Anderson Joes Unite with United Way

August 10, 2007 - South Coast League (SCL)
Anderson Joes News Release


The United Way of Anderson County will host a community-wide campaign kick-off, Monday, August 13, at Anderson Memorial Stadium as the Anderson Joes take on the Bradenton Juice for a doubleheader. Game time is 6:05 p.m. The theme for this year's campaign is, fittingly, Step up to the Plate.

The Joes will donate $1.50 to the United Way of Anderson County for every full-price box seat sold at the game.

In 2005, the Board of Directors of the United Way of Anderson County voted to move forward with the development of a Community Impact Agenda, a new approach to United Way operations. United Ways across the nation are setting specific goals to address the most important issues in their communities, goals that are designed to create long-term positive changes in the lives of their residents.

What is Community Impact Agenda? In short, it is a road map for Anderson on how to meet its most urgent needs and how to connect area strengths and assets with opportunities to improve our community in a measurable way.

The Agenda will help the community focus on specific issues and goals for improvement, serve as a strategic guide for philanthropic investments, facilitate collaborative efforts in the community and can assist in linking community strengths and assets to community needs.

The Community Impact Agenda defines community visions for a positive future and identifies desirable and measurable community-level outcomes as indicators and targets for success. These indicators and targets serve as long-term goals and provide for measurable ways to determine progress, results and areas for improvement.

The focus areas of Community Impact are: Developing Self-Sufficient Individuals; Strengthening Neighborhoods; Building Strong Individuals, Children and Families; and Basic Needs.

As one of the critical success factors of Community Impact is community involvement and collaborations, through the development process and in moving forward, community partners have been careful to ensure coordination with a concurrent community-level planning process being led by the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce. This effort, Imagine Anderson, is a broad-ranged community visioning process that will provide the Anderson community with visions and goals for various community sectors to be achieved by the year 2026. While the Imagine Anderson effort is broader in scope, Community Impact focuses primarily on the health and human services sector. There is no doubt that these two efforts complement and support each other and partnerships on common goals will naturally take place as the two processes work together.

Costs for the game: Green & Gold Club $8 (Subject to Availability); Reserved Box $6; Reserved Bleacher $5; General Admission $4 Adult / $3 Students, Seniors, Military (with proper I.D.); Children 12 & Under FREE Admission through Junior Joes Kids' Club. The public is invited to Step up to the Plate and help United Way of Anderson County improve lives and build stronger communities.

For more information on United Way of Anderson County or Community Impact, contact Lynn Scott at (864) 226-3438.

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