UNITED WAY OF MIAMI-DADE COVID-19 RELIEF RESPONSE In early 2020, COVID-19 reached our shores and by mid-March, our country and our community were on lockdown. With 5 out of 10 households (54 percent) in Miami-Dade County, living in, or one emergency away from, poverty, COVID-19 exacerbated an already difficult situation for ALICE individuals and families.
Over a period of 10 months, United Way of Miami-Dade disbursed nearly $33 million dollars in emergency assistance and relief, having an impact on more than 68,000 individuals and 448 small businesses. EXTENDING A HELPING HAND On March 16, together with our partners at Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald, we activated Operation Helping Hands and with it, launched the Miami Pandemic Response Fund with $500,000 in seed funding created through an unprecedented funders’ collaborative to respond to this emergency. Families and individuals impacted by reduced hours, furloughs and layoffs received assistance with rent and mortgage, food and medication.
Initial group of funders Additional key funders $3.8 • The Frederick A. DeLuca • Allegany Franciscan Ministries Foundation • The Children’s Trust • Greater Miami Convention and • Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund million Visitors Bureau • Greater Miami Jewish received and • Health Foundation of South Federation invested Florida • Helios Education Foundation • The Miami Foundation • Knight Foundation • United Way of Miami-Dade • Corporate partners and individuals 8,192 neighbors helped Meet Jeff, a small HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES business owner As part of the broader Miami Pandemic who had to close Response Fund, and with small businesses his gym due to a backbone of our local economy, we also the COVID-19 448small launched the Small Business Assistance shutdown. businesses Program to help small businesses that may Through a assisted, not have been eligible for other assistance. grant from the totaling more than Acting as the clearinghouse, our United Way Small Business Assistance $900,000 Center for Financial Stability, in partnership Program, he was able to keep his with Branches, processed applications business afloat during the waiting period and provided micro-grants to help small and focus on putting measures in place businesses continue to operate and provide and establish guidelines to provide a jobs in our community during the slowdown. clean, safe and sanitized environment for These businesses also received technical reopening. assistance to help them emerge from the crisis poised for growth and sustainability. 1 UNITED WAY AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY JOIN FORCES $30.96 Miami-Dade County selected United Way to disburse more than $30 million in relief assistance provided by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Miami-Dade Pandemic Assistance Program launched in early August million with an initial $20 million in relief aid, followed in November with a second allocation of received and invested nearly $11 million, providing much-needed emergency relief to individuals, families and their children and veterans.
Our United Way team led this massive undertaking, with the assistance of five nonprofit 60,013 agency partners: Branches, CCDH (The Advocacy Network on Disabilities), Centro neighbors Campesino, MUJER and Sant La. In all, the team reviewed nearly 24,000 applications, helped responded to more than 8,500 emails, and answered close to 7,000 calls – many times providing guidance to other assistance programs available throughout the county and municipalities. 18,504 households
Local businesses and organizations came together to provide in-kind donations to help keep our neighbors safe by donating masks, face shields and hand sanitizers as well as donating valuable air time and billboard access to keep our community informed.
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2 NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS VolunteerMiami.org, United Way’s engagement platform, became the go-to portal for our volunteers as well as for local partners and nonprofits to connect and help our community weather the storm. United Way and 35 local nonprofits offered on-site and 2,000 remote pandemic relief service activities. volunteers registered to offer pandemic relief 7,012 hours clocked
Meet Kyle, an Air Force veteran who Meet Guadalupe, a single mom laid off from her job at a plant nursery, was able to cover rent and buy groceries 224 moved to Miami last year to buy a pandemic home and start a family, but used up to feed her three children with funds she received relief most of their savings after his wife through the Miami Pandemic Response Fund. activities was furloughed. He received help to pay rent and buy groceries as they welcomed their new baby boy.
Behind the scenes, our advocacy efforts played a key role early in the pandemic and throughout the months thereafter. We mobilized support of Federal relief for individuals, families, nonprofits and businesses by calling upon our congressional leaders to pass the CARES Act, which was signed into legislation on March 27. Our advocacy team participated in webinars with County and Federal elected officials to provide knowledge of best practices and technical expertise to other nonprofits and responded to their requests for assistance. The team also provided the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and the County Commission with status reports on the Miami-Dade Pandemic Assistance Program and the disbursement of funds.
1,900+ 557 VOLUNTEERS helped distribute food/meals to 50,000+ VOLUNTEERS engaged in remote pandemic relief projects FAMILIES at Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, such as writing letters thanking front-line personnel and first Miami-Dade County Public Schools Agency Partners, responders, making storytelling videos to share with homebound Mission United veterans, among others children, tutoring and mentoring youth, phoning older adults during self-isolation 3,480 NEWBORN AND INFANT CARE PACKAGES delivered 10,200 to 580 FAMILIES at 19 Early Head Start-Child Care MEALS delivered to 1,700 OLDER ADULTS following the Partnership sites, including our United Way Center for closure of adult care centers Excellence in Early Education
3 THANK YOU TO ALL OPERATION HELPING HANDS DONORS FOR HELPING US RAISE $3.8 MILLION FOR OUR COMMUNITY
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