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Target, which gives $3 million a week to support education, the arts, social services and volunteerism nationwide, today invites the online community and its more than 725,000 fans on Facebook to participate in Super Love Sender, a two-week-long giving campaign on its Facebook Page (facebook.com/Target).

The campaign, which runs from January 31 through February 14, 2010, combines football and love just in time for Super Bowl XLIV and Valentine’s Day, and allows participants to choose how five national charities will receive a portion of $1 million from Target to fund educational programming including United Way Worldwide.

United Way WorldWide will use funds to help children enter school ready to learn, read proficiently by 4th grade and graduate on time. [more about UWW education goals]

Through Super Love Sender, everyone can upload a personal photo and customize one of three quirky Valentine’s Day, football-inspired video cards to send to friends and family in support of the select charities.  Every time a video card is sent, the guest-chosen charity will receive one vote.  The total percentage of votes will correlate to the charities’ portion of the $1 million received in a one-time donation from Target.

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Minnesota Compass

Getting to know us

Minnesota Compass  gives everyone in our state a common foundation to identify, understand, and act on community issues that affect our communities. [more]

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Support Recovery in Haiti

You can help people affected by donating to the United Way Worldwide Disaster Fund

Gifts to the Fund support long-term recovery efforts to rebuild lives and infrastructure devastated by disaster and to address educational, financial and health-related challenges.

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Rich Harwood will be the featured speaker at the annual Celebration of Caring and Giving, March 23, 2010.

“If we are to improve politics and public life,” says Richard C. Harwood, founder and president of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, “then we need to release ourselves from our resignation that public life and politics has to be the way that it is today, and declare that it can be better, that we can be better!” [-more-]

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Amy Dickinson will be the featured speaker at the 5th Annual Power of the Purse luncheon, June 15, 2010.

Dickinsen's syndicated "Ask Amy" column appears in over 200 newspapers nationwide.

She is a regular panelist on the popular radio current events quiz show, Wait,Wait, Don’t Tell Me, heard on 400 NPR stations.Dickenson is also an occasional guest on such programs as The Today Show, TheRachel Ray Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation and CNN’s American Morning. [-more-]

The Power of the Purse luncheon and silent purse auction is hosted by the Women's Leadership Council. Proceeds from the event support the Imagination Library.

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United Way of Olmsted County
903 West Center Street Rochester, MN 55902
507-287-2000