Morrison County United Way

Did you know that there are 1,878 children ages 0-5 in Morrison County? 

There are 1,015 children age 0-5 in Morrison County receiving the Imagination Library books for free each month. That's 54%!

 1,015 books at $2.30 per book each month means we invest $28,014 each year. Your support to make this happen is very much appreciated! We also have 80 children enrolled in our newly added area of Todd County (Browerville, Eagle Bend, Staples area). So 1,095 children total. This is our top priority program.

Morrison County United Way addresses the greatest needs in our community, focusing on the areas of Youth Opportunity, Financial Security, Community Resilience, and Healthy Community.

Like United Ways across America, Morrison County United Way is focused on the building blocks for a better life.  We support local agencies who provide services in four critical areas:

• Healthy Community:  Improving health and well-being for all
• Youth Opportunity:  Helping young people realize their full potential
• Financial Security:  Creating a stronger financial future for every generation
• Community Resilience: Addressing urgent needs today for a better tomorrow

But Morrison County United Way does so much more. . .as a local United Way we work to make an impact in Morrison County. We rent office space from the Franciscan Sisters, we are part of the Little Falls Chamber of Commerce. We partner with 10 non-profits that serve Morrison County. We are local and are proud to say that over 90% of our funds raised stay in Morrison County!

We seek to make a direct impact on our community by bringing the Imagination Library  to children in our community. The Imagination Library  provides children age birth to five with a new, age appropriate book each month free of charge to the family. With the support of local service organizations and generous individual donors, over 1,000 children in our county can look forward to receiving a book in the mail each month.  Depending on their age at enrollment, a child will build a library of up to 60 books over their involvement in the program. Because of our collaboration with the Dollywood Foundation, it costs about $36 a year for a child to be part of the Imagination Library - that's just 10 cents a day! We invite you to be a part of promoting early childhood literacy by sponsoring a child. . .or two! 

We invest about $30,000 into this program each year!

Tools for School is a program that we started in 2017.  This program provides free school supplies to children in need which allows them to go back to school prepared to learn. To date, hundreds of Morrison County children in 8 Morrison County Schools (Royalton, Swanville, Lincoln Elementary in Little Falls, Lindbergh Elementary in Little Falls, Mary of Lourdes in Little Falls, Pioneer Elementary in Pierz, Holy Trinity in Pierz) have been impacted by this program. The average cost is $72 per child - that's just 20 cents a day! We invite you to be a part of a child's school day by sponsoring a child. . .or two! 

We invest about $10,000 into this program each year!

United for ALICE is our newest program. ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. These are people in our community who are working but still struggling to make ends meet. They make too much to be considered poverty level but not enough to meet the household survival budget. 38% of Morrison County is either in the poverty level or are ALICE. ALICE is your cashier, waiter, direct care worker and more. We are United for ALICE in Morrison County. 

This is new! We invested about $5,000 in this program in 2025!

In addition to our own programs, in 2025 we invested $20,000 in 2025 in support of other non-profits that serve Morrison County in ways that support our initiatives but have the programs in place that we could not create...that's Living UNITED.

Want to find out more about Morrison County United Way?  Check us out at www.unitedwayofmc.org or give us a call at 320.632.5102.

Thanks for your contribution to our community!