That, my friends, is LIVING UNITED.  I have been blessed this past year getting to know some folks that live in our South Cape neighborhood.  If not for my work at United Way, I would not have had the opportunity.  In addition to making new friends, it has allowed me to better understand what has happened within this neighborhood.  In better understanding, I feel we can be more helpful as a community organization – and better invest our resources – and yours – to help strengthen these families and, thereby, strengthen our community.

Something else I discovered is how enriched my life has become because of the new relationships I have formed.  We are more comfortable being around people like us – human nature I suppose.  But, when we get out of our comfort zone, we grow.  When we work together to make things better for an individual, a family, a community, an amazing thing occurs – we see how alike we are, not how different.

LIVE UNITED is a personal invitation for you to get involved in your neighborhood, your community, and/or your world.  Give, Advocate, Volunteer – the additional tagline – are suggestions as to how to do it.  Don’t know how to get started?  Just shoot me an email at nancy.jernigan@unitedwayofsemo.org and we’ll get right back to you with some ideas.  Would it help if I double-dared you?????