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Tyler Tollefson : A Life Enriched From Volunteering
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Volunteers play a key role in guiding United Way’s annual campaign. Campaign Cabinet is made up of 40 dedicated local business, labour and social service sector leaders who share their skills, time and talent to raise money for United Way. Tyler Tollefson has been volunteering on our Cabinet for ...
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Faces of United Way: Cory
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“I was born with albinism and growing up I faced a lot of adversity. Part of my albinism is that my vision is twenty-two hundred, which basically means that everything is zoomed out. If you’ve ever turned a lens or a pair of binoculars over, that zoomed-out look, that’s kind of how I see the worl...
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National Volunteer Week April 15 - 21, 2018
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It’s heartwarming to see a community so willing to step up to help us in the work that we do, at United Way, to help lift people out of poverty. We appreciate and thank you for renovation work to agency buildings, for building Homeless Connect care kits, sorting food and preparing hampers at...
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Faces of United Way: Kristin
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“I was assaulted by someone I had known for 15 years. Eighty per cent of survivors have experienced acquaintance sexual assault, so someone they know or someone they care about. So for me, it felt important to speak out, to give a face to a lot of peoples’ experiences and then it empowers people ...
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Listening Can Change the World
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Amanda Dauvin When Amanda Dauvin speaks about homelessness, she speaks from firsthand experience. Homeless twice before the age of 15, Dauvin grew up in a family that faced challenges such as poverty, mental health issues and addiction.Dauv...
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Faces of United Way: Rhea
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“I work for The Family Centre, and I’m a youth liaison in south west Edmonton ... I was born in India and being in India you are exposed to poverty. I was in India for eight years and then moved to Australia and basically grew up in Australia. And my father is a single father and he raised us, so...
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Hope For a Brighter Future
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At age 23, Travis learned he had mental health issues, making it difficult for him to function, be around others and hold a job. After a decade spent learning to accept his condition and gaining stability through medication, he was ready to be more independent. Thanks to the generous support of d...
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Do you know how to really listen?
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If you’re like most people, you probably consider yourself a pretty good listener. But you might not be as good as you think you are. It’s true—in their 2013 book, The Plateau Effect, authors Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson point to several studies that show most of us actually “stink at listening...
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Putting Empathy to Work
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Jerilyn never intended to be a social worker. As a psychology undergraduate student looking to build practical skills, she started volunteering at Distress Centre Calgary, a United Way–supported agency, nearly two decades ago. The experience changed the direction of her life.  An opport...
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How to help your teen save money
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 The importance of Financial Literacy For TeensBy the time Kim Deep’s three children were teenagers, they were all financially literate. She started them early, at ages three, six and 10. Each kid would separate their allowance into jars representing what they could spend on things like movi...
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Safety, Community and Belonging
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A place to feel safe—and to belong. After fleeing an abusive relationship, Dawn worried she might never be able to get the fresh start she so desperately needed. She felt overwhelmed, alone and hopeless and couldn’t imagine a better future for herself. “I didn’t think my life was going to imp...
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A Life Changing Meal
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Alasdair has worked in the food and hospitality industry for much of his life. So when he lost his job as a server due to an alcohol addiction, worries about where his next meal would come weren’t far from his mind. In fact, they became a daily and stressful reality. “For a while, money was reall...
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Can We End Poverty?
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Ask the ExpertDaniyal Zuberi is the RBC Chair and Associate Professor of Social Policy at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto. In 2015, he was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Ro...
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Unique Stories Displayed Through Art
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City employee, Elizabeth Halpin, is turning a night of terror into triumph by sharing her story. In 2012, she was sexually assaulted in a violent attack, but today, she is determined to reach out to others in need of help.As one of seven local stories of triumph featured on the United Way’s “It L...
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The Benefits of Eating Together
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It's Good For Your HealthImagine there was one simple thing you could do to ensure your kids ate less junk food and got better grades, your parents stayed more socially connected and you felt less stressed. Sounds like magic, right? Actually, it’s something a bit more commonplace than that: dinne...
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