Real people. Real change. That’s how United Way of Baldwin County measures success — improving lives through education, financial stability and healthcare.
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We’re at a wonderful place in our lives. As long as we keep doing what we’re doing, the future holds whatever we want.
-Brennan Carroll, age 19 -
I wanted something better than I had.
-Stephen Jones, age 18
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Everybody in the community was stressed, the economy was already bad, we were worried about my dad’s job...
-Amy Johnson, age 17
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Opportunity for a Better Life
26 Oct 2010 | No Comments | posted by United Way | in Measuring Success
Join the LIVE UNITED Movement.
LIVING UNITED is about creating lasting changes in our community. United Way of Baldwin County is committed to advancing the common good, drawing on the strength of our 42 partner agencies to promote education, financial stability for families and healthcare in our community.
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Hope for the Future
25 Aug 2010 | No Comments | posted by United Way | in Measuring Success
A United Way Family Success Story
On an early summer morning, when most teenage boys are still asleep in bed, brothers Brennan and Cody Carroll arrive at Daphne’s Bayfront Park pier to model for a photographer. Clean-cut and good looking in a Jonas Brothers sort of way, the boys are quick to say, it is perhaps the first time in their lives they’ve been model anything. That’s because, until recently, 19-year-old Brennan and 16-year-old Cody set the wrong example —failing miserably in school and living a life rife with drugs and alcohol.
