You can do

this in a number of ways. Your church, fraternity, sorority or other organization

can make a leadership gift to United Way of $1,000 or more or at any amount

you can comfortably raise. You can write a check for a leadership gift

or whatever you can afford. And, finally, you can speak to your friends

and associates about the need and get them to follow your lead. There

are matching funds for African-Americans who give $1,000 or more.

Here are three

easy ways to "Walk the Talk": 1) Give online at www.unitedwayatlanta.org ;

2) Call 211 to make your gift there, or 3) Mail contributions to United

Way Homefront Effort, 100 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303.

Our community

depends on United Way programs to meet basic needs. We now have 39,000

job cuts in Georgia with 60,000 expected by year-end. United Way's 2-1-1

information and referral service is experiencing almost 300 more people

calling per day for help. And preliminary estimates are that over 8,000

additional households will seek emergency financial assistance as a result

of the economic impact of Sept. 11.

Your United

Way leadership gift or any gift will help fund critical programs for a

safer and stronger community. Some may say, "I already gave to my

favorite organization." We are asking, you, however, to give to your

community, too. You live, work and play here. Without affordable childcare

and after-school programs for youth; homeownership programs to turn renters

into homeowners; micro enterprise programs to help more people start their

own businesses; or employment training programs that prepare people for

the workforce, our community will be too far from being the best that

it could be. This is why we volunteer our time with an organization that

impacts hundreds of thousands of lives throughout our community.

To find out

more about the matching incentives how your gift can generate more money

to serve more call the African American Initiative at 404-527-7234.

Thank you metropolitan

Atlanta African-American community.

Conchita L.

Robinson and Charles R. Stephens

Co-chairs,

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta

African American

Initiative

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