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Capital Area United Way Receives $10,000 Grant from

United Way Worldwide’s COVID-19 Community Response
and Recovery Fund

CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ANNOUNCED A $10,000 GRANT AWARD FROM
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE’S COVID-19 COMMUNITY RESPONSE AND
RECOVERY FUND

his grant was awarded to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as
175 United Ways across the additional Child Tax Credit,
Tthe United States and is the Child and Dependent Care
intended to increase internal Credit, and the Earned Income
capacity and crisis response Tax Credit. UWW Grants such as
preparedness, including critical this one that focuses on the tools
areas such as business continuity needed to create long-term digital
planning, IT infrastructure, infrastructure prepares CAUW for
data security and digital serving our community and allows
communication platforms. us to be more responsive when
providing community residents
To date, Capital Area United access to tax preparation services.”
Way (CAUW) has provided $369,124 in support to the
community in response to the impact of COVID-19 and United Way Worldwide established the COVID-19
will use the grant funds to provide greater access for Community Response and Recovery Fund in 2020 to
volunteers to stay engaged, trained, and volunteering meet the unprecedented human services needs that
no matter where they are in the Lansing area. appeared simultaneously in communities worldwide
because of the pandemic and the resulting economic
“Capital Area United Way is grateful to have the fallout. To date, $57.3 million has been raised and
additional support to increase its capacity to provide distributed to more than 650 Local United Ways
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance services,” said Teresa to serve immediate needs in their communities,
Kmetz, president and CEO, Capital Area United Way. impacting more than 20 million lives. To learn more
“This will help provide our community’s ALICE families about Capital Area United Way or to give, advocate or
access to the many expanded tax credits related to volunteer, please visit: www.micauw.org. l

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