With the challenges presented by COVID-19 last year, United Way of Dane County worked with our nonprofit and corporate partners to innovate and continue leveraging volunteer power to meet community needs. And as needs in our community increased, thousands of volunteers responded by participating in at-home and physically-distanced projects including:

• More than 100 people volunteered at six small group community engagements, providing 4,063 packs – including snack packs, paper product packs, backpacks with school supplies and diaper packs – to 7 nonprofit partners with a total economic impact of $11,172.
• More than 314 employees volunteered through their workplaces, providing more than 453 hours of volunteering. These engagements provided 11,416 packs – including snack packs, paper product packs, diaper packs, menstrual hygiene packs and welcome home kits – to 12 nonprofit partners with a total economic impact of $35,002.
• Additionally, 5,618 volunteers responded to virtual and COVID-19 safe volunteer opportunities on VolunteerYourTime.org throughout 2020.