Recent News

FORT WAYNE (July 30, 2008) – Regal Beloit has captured the highest honor for United Way of Allen County campaign partners. Regal Beloit employees were recently presented with the Spirit of Giving award, originally created by longtime United Way donor Will Clark. In addition to having 14 leadership givers, their company participated in United Way’s Day of Caring and was involved in many other community activities. Regal Beloit used all the best practices for running a campaign, and this paid off with a 46% increase in employee participation over the past three years.

An Interview with John Rogers
Leadership Profile

About how long have you been a United Way donor?

I have been a donor to United Way for 34 years.

Aside from being a donor, how have you been involved with United Way?

I'm in my 4th term as a board member. In addition, I have served as Day of Caring Chair, Campaign Chair and Board Chair and just generally worked on the campaign a lot in past years.

What first convinced you to give to United Way?

FORT WAYNE (May 25, 2008) – A communitywide effort to offer free tax help to people who qualified for a 2007 Earned Income Tax Credit yielded $1.43 million for filers who took advantage of the program.

Of that amount, nearly $600,000 represented Earned Income Tax Credits.

The total number of individual returns submitted to the IRS during the effort was 1,362.

Fort Wayne Newspapers NIE (Newspaper In Education) and United Way of Allen County are proud to announce the two winners in the 2008 Write What’s Right Essay Contest.

Second grader Kelsey Mathias from Croninger Elementary School and eighth grader Veronica Frecker from St. Joseph Hessen Cassel won the contest with their poems about diversity.

Kelsey and Veronica were chosen from nearly 200 entries to receive a new laptop computer. The computers were provided by the IPFW Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.