I am pleased to provide you with Neighborhoods United's comprehensive year-end report for 2023, outlining our impactful initiatives and financial expenditures. Throughout the year, our commitment to community service remained steadfast, leading to another successful period of giving.

In August, we distributed 100 school backpacks to children in need, incurring an expenditure of $903.64. Following this, December saw the distribution of approximately 1200 pairs of socks, winter caps, and gloves to families and homeless individuals. This effort, totaling $339.32 in expenses, was supplemented by a $500 cash donation and additional contributions from community members, surpassing last year's goal of 1100 items.

On April 26, 2023, we purchased four $25 gift cards from King Soopers, providing much-needed grocery support. Responding to a request from the Salvation Army on February 14, 2023, we ordered winter coats for families at a cost of $258.27 through Amazon.
In August 2023, we allocated $2,000 to support the Poudre River Library District's reading skills packages for low-income neighborhoods. Another initiative involved supplying snacks for Colorado Early College students, incurring an expenditure of $532.75.

Our collaboration with Kohl's Store enabled the re-implementation of the "superhero undies" program for elementary schools in the Poudre School District. A total of $3,147.77 was spent, and over 3000 pairs of undies were distributed, benefiting from a generous fifty percent discount from Kohl's.  Additionally, we have helped PSD Family Liaison coordinators with personal family crisis incidents that needed clothing, bedding, food, etc.
Throughout the year, we received valuable support from external partners. The Rotary Club generously donated $1,000 on August 2, 2023. In October, the Downtown Club of Fort Collins organized the "Hucks for Hope" disc golf tournament, resulting in a substantial donation of $4,030.00 to Neighborhoods United.
Additionally, through a PayPal transfer, we successfully collected and transferred $489.56 to our account. In November 2023, the Kiwanis Club of Fort Collins granted us $1,000.

Finally, we managed various operational expenses, including the Zoom annual fee, website update annual fees, and the Secretary of State yearly report fee.
Neighborhoods United expresses its gratitude for the continued support of the Board of Directors, officers and the community at large. We look forward to building on these successes in the coming year, furthering our mission to make a positive impact on the lives of those we serve.
If you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Poudre School District Family Liaison coordinator asked for our help to supply clothing and other essentials for a few families this past December 2022.  Together, we went on a shopping spree to meet their needs.  We are looking forward to future connections/support for students and their families.

Family Liaisons in PSD schools bridge home to school communication for families of English Language Learners. Liaisons assist with:

• Spanish/Arabic language oral interpretation 
  
• Spanish/Arabic language written translation of educational information sent home
  
•  Assistance in resource referral for student, staff, and families
  
• Parent/Family education and engagement in their child's learning
  

Last month, Colorado Early College asked for our help in providing essential needs, i.e. toiletry, snacks, hand sanitizer, personal hygiene products, and dental products.

Our friends/employees from Elevations Credit Union #elevationscu helped us prepare 100 bags with all of these needs.  Not only did they pack the bags, they provided the bags,  hand sanitizer, and bicycle headlights.

Additionally, our friends from Project Smile #projectsmile provided all of our dental products, i.e. toothbrushes, floss, and toothpaste.  

​It's awesome when people come together and work as a team.  So much is accomplished with partnerships!

For the third year in a row, we have asked the community to donate socks, winter caps, and gloves for needy families, homeless people between November and December 2022.  Their first year we collected 400+ articles.  In our second year we collected 700+ articles.  Before the end of December 2022 (our third year) we collected 1,100+ articles.

We are very proud of our community that took the extra step to donated via drop shipments via Amazon, front door drop offs, and cash donations.  The inflation and economy is tough while coming out of this pandemic, but that didn't stop people from giving out of the spirit of love.

We are happy to announce that our 2022 Winter season has started for collecting donations for gloves, socks, and caps.  We are asking for new items for people so we are not in the repair business of used items and for sanitary reasons for all.  
Please send your donations to Neighborhoods United, c/o Ray Martinez, 4121 Stoneridge Ct, Fort Collins, CO  80525.  You can drop your items off at the front door step where the container is provided.

Others have done direct purchases through Amazon and drop-shipped their donation to the same address.
Some people have chosen to donate through this website with their credit cards, or mail us a check to the same address.
These are the 3 options available previously mentioned.  

We share/give these donations to families in need. Some are homeless folks, and others in schools. Referrals that are made from other people are welcomed.  Last year our goal was for 400 items, but the love of this community exceeded that and we received over 700 articles/items for people in need!  That excites us!  Our goal this year is to exceed the 700 articles needed.  We will never run out of people who need these items.

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The Larimer County Library District family outreach program asked Neighborhoods United for support of the families that are displaced from their homes because of the recent wildfires in our area.  We joined forces with Elevations Credit Union that fully funded some supplies and 288 backpacks for emergency distribution.  The employees of Elevations Credit Union volunteered their time to help prepare the backpacks as well.  We also appreciate the United Way for helping with the distribution of backpacks to the families they identified with needs.

A huge thanks to Walmart in Timnath, CO, for the donation of schools supples!  We were able to fill 63 backpacks for kids. We appreciate the staff and management for shopping for us during this Covid-19 crisis in our country.  All we had to do is pick them up.  

​Neighborhoods United have been buying groceries and schools supplies from Walmart for years, and we will continue to shop there, because we know they care.

Thanks to Old Elk of Fort Collins, we were able to distribute 50 bottles of hand sanitizers to La Familia, and other families in need.

Juanna Jackson, a PFA volunteer firefighter, prepared us with 50 homemade face masks for distribution--free of charge!

Elevations Credit Union provide Neighborhoods United with 50 pocket size hand sanitizers for distribution.

We are also providing food cards for families that need groceries.  

Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic 2020, Matt Meuli's Law Office donated $500 to our organization to help with family needs for food or other necessities for children.  We are so grateful!  www.yourtrustedplanner.com