Run for it! Two great opportunities for runners or walkers of all ages and abilities. You can join Employment Skills Center, one of our partner agencies, this Thursday, May 30, for an easy fun 1 mile race in lovely downtown Carlisle. On Saturday, June 15th you can run a 5k or walk a mile to support Hope Station, another partner agency, at Memorial Park in Carlisle.

Fore! Saturday, May 31 you can golf to support our partner Safe Harbour.

Whichever you choose, there is no better time than now to get fit, have some fun and join the community, as we support the local non-profit partners serving our community.

See our Calendar of Events for more details!

Papa John’s will donate 10% of your online order if you simply do the following:

1. Go to papajohns.com to place your order

2. Enter UNITED10 in the promo code box (a box will appear that says $.01 off your order)

3. Click Apply discount

Each time you place an order this way, Papa John’s donates 10% to our Campaign.

So enjoy your pizza and help us with the dough!

Please note you must order online in one of Papa John’s 4 Cumberland County locations: Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Enola or Lemoyne.

Each year, when students vacate Dickinson College, there are incredible amounts of useful new and like-new items placed in dumpsters simply because the students have no way of getting them home.  On-campus U-Turn collection bins help keep great items out of our landfills and gives them a second chance. Plus, all proceeds from the U-Turn sale go to the 2013 United Way Campaign – benefiting our 27 partner agencies and their 40 programs!

There are three easy ways to get involved and help out your community:

Come SELL your stuff! Are you spring cleaning and getting rid of unwanted items?  Well, one person’s trash may be another’s treasure!  Why not capitalize on our traffic and sell your stuff?  Vendor spaces are offered for you to have your garage sale in our garage!

Come HELP! We need a great deal of community support to pull off an event like this.  Volunteers are needed June 12th, 13th & 14th between 9 am-7 pm each day for unloading, organizing and setting up. If you have a few free hours and you want to do something nice for your community, or you are a student in need of some service hours, consider spending some time with us one of those days!

 Come SHOP!

Trying to furnish a home or apartment? Have a child going off to college? Come shop through thousands of items donated by Dickinson College students as they clean their dorms and return home for the summer. Shop anytime between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm on Saturday, June 15th. If you’d rather beat the crowds, you can pay a $5 early bird fee and arrive at 7:30! While we never know what we will get, we can tell you there are some great bargains to be had. Items in the past have included: furnishings, clothing, electronics, household supplies, and more! 

 For more information, contact 

Kelly @717-243-4805 or kelly@carlisleunitedway.org

On Saturday, April 20, the United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County held their third annual M&T Bank Regional Glee Competition.  The event came and went with flying colors.   It consisted of a capella arrangements presented by 17 different choral groups from 3 different states, including two of Dickinson College’s own a capella groups, The Octals and The Syrens, both of which, took first place in their categories.  The music varied from Barbershop Quartets and High School choirs to College a capella clubs.  The night was split into two sessions, the 1^st session consisted of Barbershop Quartet and Adult Ensemble a capella.  Gents Night Out placed first for the Barbershop Quartet and Keystone Capital Chorus placed first in the Ensemble a capella Category and was the overall winner for the 1^st session.  Session 2 was entirely college a capella.  The Dickinson College Syren’s placed first for the College Female Category.  Stockton University, Stockapella placed first for the College Co-ed Category.  The Dickinson College Octals placed first in the College Male category and also 1^st overall for the 2^nd session.  The array in music styles including: scottish folksongs to modern pop music, provided for a wonderful, family-friendly night.  The night was met with an exceptional turn out and rave reviews from community members and performers alike.  Overall, the event raised over $6,000 for our United Way Campaign.

Again, we thank our Sponsors M&T Bank, Red 102.3 and ABC 27!

Visit Cumberlink for more information from Sentinel Reporter Victoria Aldrich

National Volunteer Week is a time to celebrate our friends in the community who are doing great things through service, and dedicating their time to help advance the common good.  Started in 1974, National Volunteer Week places national attention on the impact and power of volunteerism and service as an integral part of our civic leadership.  The week has grown and receives support from the President, Congress, governors, mayors, municipal leaders, as well as corporate and community groups all across the country.

Today more than 25% of the United States population are volunteers. That is 64.5 million people or 26.5% of our population who have taken the time to volunteer at least once and for at least one organization between the dates of September 2011 and September 2012.

The United Way strives to get even more people out into the community to volunteer so that all of us together can make a bigger impact.  These already impressive numbers show that we can make significant strides to have kids graduate on time, strengthen the financial stability of community families, and improve health for their lifetimes.

If you are already volunteering on a regular basis, we thank you and take this week to recognize your tremendous impact.  Volunteers are the lifeblood change in the United States and all around the world.

For those of you who have not volunteered recently, National Volunteer Week is a great time to start seeing the difference you can make.  The United Way is recruiting one million volunteer readers, tutors, or mentors across the nation to help advance the academic success of the children in the United States.  Pledge to help today and contact our office to learn more on how you can join this initiative.

Thank you to all the volunteers who work with the United Way of Carlise & Cumberland County in mobilizing the caring power of communities. We improve lives, both our own and those of others, through volunteering. We feel very fortunate to have amazing volunteers.  Know that the impact your service has on our community is appreciated and significant!

Here in Carlisle & Cumberland County our 27 partner agencies serve near to 20,000 people in 40 programs supported by United Way.  They welcome your help and in many cases, count on it!  We encourage you to get involved and call a local non-profit to get involved (Link to partner page) or call our office at 243-4805

It’s a windy but wonderful day and this is the perfect night to come out to the theatre.  If you love Barbershop Quartets and Ensemble a capella join us at 5:30.  To watch 9 colleges duke it out for GRAND Champion  join us at 7:30.   Tickets will be available at the door!  Check out the sneek preview video clips at our faceboook page - www.Facebook/UWCCC

The colleges geared up for this competition include: Stockton University, Franklin & Marshall College, Villanova, St. Josephs University, Temple University, our very own Dickinson College with three entries, and our reigning Champions from DREXEL University return to defend the title of overall GLEE Champions.

It is going to be an amazing evening and ALL of the proceeds benefit our 27 local partner agencies and their 40 non-profit programs right here in Carlisle & Cumberland County.

We hope to see you out there to watch these groups LIVE UNITED in a healthy competition for a great cause! GLEE-k PEEK’s posted of competitors every day on our Facebook page  www.facebook.com/UWCCC

More information is available at our website: www.CarliseUnitedWay.org