This fund provided grants of up to $1,500.00 to registered Canadian agencies operating in the region served by Renfrew County United Way to assist with health and social service programs. Application for funding, in the form of a letter to Renfrew County United Way, should include a brief outline of the intended use of the funds, who will benefit, and a proposed budget.
For the 2011 and subsequent operating years, the United Way Board agreed to roll the Community Support Fund into a new fund that focuses on the corporation's strategic priorities.
Some examples of how in past years the United Way supported the health and social needs of communities in its region through the Community Support Fund are:
United Way / Renfrew County Child Poverty Action Network (CPAN) Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant for CPAN’s Social Inclusion Pilot Project in three Renfrew County schools to ensure that all children in these schools can fully participate in school activities regardless of the financial circumstances of their families – 2009 June.
United Way / Boys & Girls Club of Pembroke Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant for Assessment of Before- and After-School Program for Children and Families affected by the “Staggered Bells” decision of Renfrew County School Boards – 2009 July.
United Way / Family and Children’s Services of Renfrew County Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to the Darlene Aikens Memorial Summer Camp Program for disadvantaged children – 2009 June.
United Way / Canadian Diabetes Association Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to Camp Banting to help children with type 1 diabetes manage their disease – 2010 May.
United Way / Stroke Survivors Association Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to help launch a new monthly peer-to-peer support group for stroke survivors and their caregivers living in the Pembroke area – 2009 September.
United Way / Renfrew County Food Banks Partnership
$500 Community Support grant to seven county food banks – 2009 December.
United Way/Community Living Renfrew South Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to assist two special needs teenagers continue a summer camp experience – 2009 Summer.
United Way/Women’s Sexual Assault Centre Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to assist the Centre in providing a practical assistance program to women who have been sexually assaulted – 2009.
United Way/Community Mental Health Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to deliver the T.A.M.I. (Talking About Mental Illness) Program to all secondary schools in Renfrew County – 2010.
United Way / Renfrew & Area Community Resource Centre Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to support a tiny tots health and nutrition program that teaches children and parents about healthy eating and how to prepare nutritious meals - May, 2010.
United Way / Family & Children's Services of Renfrew County Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to the Darlene Aikens Memorial Summer Camp Program for disadvantaged children - June, 2010.
United Way / Salvation Army-Pembroke Partnership
$331 Community Support grant to cover the proceeds from the United Way Breakfast in Pembroke - October, 2010.
United Way / St. Joseph's Good Bank-Pembroke Partnership
$331 Community Support grant to cover the proceeds from the United Way Breakfast in Pembroke - October, 2010.
United Way / Community Living Renfrew South Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to support the Summer Opportunities Program for children and youth with developmental disabilities - August, 2010.
United Way / Renfrew County Child Poverty Action Network Partnership
$1,500 Community Support grant to support Operation Snowsuit - a program that ensures that all children, regardless of financial status, can be warm and dry in winter and be able to participate in extracurricular outdoor activities despite severe weather conditions - 2010.
United Way / Renfrew County Food Banks Partnership
(Arnprior & District; Renfrew & Area; Cobden & Area; Eganville; Killaloe; Madawaska Valley; Algonquins of Pikwakanangan; Deep River District; St. Joseph's and Salvation Army - Pembroke)
Total of $10,338 from the Community Support Fund to meet the increased demands for food at year-end - December, 2010.