June 2025

United Way of Colquitt County Board Portal

** Requires a board vote. Quorum is 10 board members. 

**Approval of Minutes

Board Chair - Tyler Mobley

**April Meeting Minutes

**Financial Report

Finance Chair - Jim Matney

**April 2025 Financials

**May 2025 Financials

May Financial Details:

• Moved to MM acct from Operating - $122,361.38  (Campaign Surplus $80,075.30 and Misc Surplus/Grants $42, 286.08)

MM Account Summary 5-25

        Habitat for Humanity Balance Sheet - May 2025

**2025 Proposed Budget

2023 Audit

2023 990 Tax Return

Allocation Committee

Chair: Krysta Porteus

Allocation Information for 2026:

• Allocation Requests/Recommendations

• Allocation Committee Minutes 

• Panel Minutes

• Program Evaluation Comments - ALL Panels

• Volunteer e-cImpact Portal with Applications and Evaluations were made available April 7. 

  • Log in at the website - https://volunteer.e-cimpact.com/login.aspx?org=12320 

Previous Allocation Information for 2025:

• Allocation Request/Recommendations 

• Allocation Panel Minutes

• Allocation/Committee/Executive Board Minutes - Increase & Decreases ONLY

• Allocation Applications & Information

• 2024 Agency Year End Reports 

Grants Committee

Chair: Barbara Grogan

• Grant Requests/Recommendations

  • CI Grants - $114,000 Request / $37,000 Recommended (2 programs still undecided).

  • Special Grants - $104,835.75 Request / $13,500 Recommended (1 request still undecided).

• Grant Committee Website - includes requests/applications

Fundraising Committee

Bid United: 

Chairs: Meg Bishop and Angela Bowman

• Meg sent out a google form survey to the Bid United Committee. 

• The week of October 20-24, 2025 at SRTC

  • Awaiting contract from Weeks Group for app platform.

  • Plans to bring back Spirit Nights at Bandwagon and Dough Boys. 

Cornhole Tournament:

Chairs: Tyshon Reed, Sr. and  Angela Bowman

• August 2, 2025 check in at 11:30 AM and bags fly at 12:00 PM.

  • Tommy Meredith Gym 

• Current Sponsors

  • Hat Creek Restoration - presenting sponsor pledge

  • Pink Penny Care, LLC - presenting sponsor paid

• Register your team  here - https://secure.givelively.org/event/united-way-of-colquitt-county/colquitt-county-cornhole-classic

Day of Action Committee

Chairs: Tyshon Reed, Sr.

• Day of Action will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at Southern Regional Technical College.

• Proposals for projects has been sent to nonprofits - We have three project thus far. 

  1. Food Bank

  2. Arts Center

  3.  Boys and Girls Club

Board Development Committee

Past Board Chair - Lisa Zeanah

• No report. 

Marketing Committee

Chair: Jordan Howell

• No report.

Director's Report/Other Events

Director: Caroline Horne

• Thriving UW Assessment complete 

  • Assessment Scoresheet 

  • Complete Assessment

• Database 2 complete - 2024 - Database 2.pdf 

• Membership Certification Complete - 2025 Membership Certification.pdf 

• Campaign Materials in progress

• Annual Report in progress

• Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Session - Jtekt Upper Management Facilitation - July 28

  • $1200 toward campaign

• Shared Purpose

  • Emotional Intelligence Session

  • Ride United

  • Emergency Relief

FEDERAL POLICY PRIORITIES 

AmeriCorps

Last week a federal judge ordered the Administration to pause across-the-board cuts to AmeriCorps in response to a lawsuit filed by 24 states. In mid-April the Department of Government Efficiency terminated grants and placed 85% of the agency’s employees on administrative leave, with layoffs set to take effect later this month. The judge also ordered that programs already impacted should be restored, grants reinstated, and AmeriCorps members returned to service, “if they are willing and able to return.” The judge denied the request to reverse the placement of AmeriCorps employees on administrative leave or prevent the reduction in force for the agency’s staff.

The lawsuit, filed against AmeriCorps in late April, accused the Trump administration of efforts to “dismantle” the agency, and contended that the president does not have the constitutional authority to do so because AmeriCorps was established by an act of Congress.

Update from Voices for National Service: The Administration is proposing to eliminate AmeriCorps in FY26, "returning responsibility to fund national service and volunteerism to the private and nonprofit sectors." The President's FY26 budget requests $107.681 million to support the orderly shutdown of AmeriCorps operations; this is a cut of $920 million or 73%. The shutdown budget includes $43.25 million for staff salaries, $19.02 million for agency operations, $7.35 million for facility operations, and $5.6 million for the Inspector General. It seeks $20.9 million for the final year of AmeriCorps NCCC operations and just $11.5 million for managing the existing programs (AmeriCorps State and National, VISTA, RSVP, SCP, FGP, and State Commissions) during their final year. The agency’s FY26 congressional budget justification can be reviewed here.  

Last week the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released an appendix that provides more detail on FY25 spending plan estimates that indicate that the Administration plans to impound (or not spend) congressionally appropriated funds. If you have submitted a FY25 application for a new or renewal grant — we recommend contacting your congressional delegation. Jennifer Ney has drafted a sample email for congressional outreach (linked here) on FY25 new/renewal grants, and more talking points can be found here.  

Child Tax Credit

The House bill, as drafted, includes a permanent extension of the child tax credit of $2,000 per child and indexes the credit amount for inflation beginning after 2026. The bill also increases the child tax credit to $2,500 per child for 2025 to 2028. Without an extension, the child tax credit will return to pre-2017 levels ($1,000 per child) in 2026. We encourage Congress to make the Child Tax Credit fully refundable, ensuring that all eligible families, including those with limited income, can benefit from the credit.

Strengthening the child tax credit is a key federal policy priority for United Way Worldwide. Here is an op-ed supporting an expanded Child Tax Credit from Angela Williams, President and CEO of United Way Worldwide, published in Newsweek recently. As Congress debates the extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, now is the time to raise our voices and tell our U.S. Representatives and Senators that the Child Tax Credit be strengthened in this legislation.

ACTION: Send an e-letter mobilization to your U.S. Representative/Senator and/or tell them how the Child Tax Credit helps families in your community and encourage them to support a strengthened Child Tax Credit in the tax bill.  

Earned Income Tax Credit

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a federal tax credit that provides substantial support to low- and moderate-income working parents who claim a qualifying child based on relationship, age, residency, and tax filing status requirements. It provides a much smaller amount of support to workers without qualifying children (often called childless workers). The EITC is “refundable,” meaning that if the value of the credit exceeds the amount of federal income tax a low-paid worker owes, the worker receives the difference in the form of a refund. The House bill creates a new requirement on all families who apply for the EITC for their children to go through a new “pre-certification” procedure each year for each child to ensure they can be claimed for the credit. The EITC is an essential tax credit that should be protected and strengthened in the budget reconciliation process.

Medicaid

Created in 1965, Medicaid is a public insurance program that provides health coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, parents, pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities; it is funded jointly by the federal government and the states.  Each state operates its own Medicaid program within federal guidelines. Because the federal guidelines are broad, states have flexibility in designing and administering their programs. As a result, Medicaid eligibility and benefits can and often do vary widely from state to state.

The House Reconciliation bill, as drafted, includes many proposed changes to Medicaid, focusing on (1) reducing fraud and improving enrollment processes, (2) preventing wasteful spending, (3) stopping abusive financing practices, (4) increasing personal accountability, (5) addressing waste, fraud and abuse in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and (6) improving American’s access to care.

The items below are examples of what is included but it is not an exhaustive list:

• A work requirement of 80 hours per month for able-bodied adults who receive benefits with several exceptions, including medically frail adults and caregivers of dependent children. This would go into effect on December 31, 2026.

• Requirement for states to establish Medicaid community engagement requirements for able bodied adults without dependents.

• A reduction in the federal share of payments to expansion states that allow undocumented immigrations to enroll in Medicaid coverage.

• A requirement that states impose cost-sharing for Medicaid beneficiaries in expansion states who have incomes above 100 percent of the federal poverty level.

A preliminary Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the committee’s plan shows that the bill would reduce federal spending by $715 billion through its health provisions and leave 7.6 million individuals without health insurance. As budget reconciliation negotiations continue, Congress should protect Medicaid and ensure vulnerable individuals do not lose coverage or benefits so they can build the lives they want for themselves and their families.

ACTION: Send an e-letter mobilization to your U.S Senator to share how Medicaid and SNAP help families in your community and encourage them to preserve and strengthen these programs.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

The House Agriculture Committee bill cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by at least $230 billion over nine years, cutting the program by more than 20 percent. One of the cuts would take food assistance away from people — including, for the first time ever, parents with children over the age of 6 and adults aged 55 to 64 — who don’t meet a work requirement. Adults subject to the requirements would only be able to receive food benefits for three months in a three-year period unless they show compliance with a 20-hour-per-week work requirement or prove they qualify for an exemption such as having a disability.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that expanding the work requirement would cut SNAP by $92 billion through 2034 and take food assistance away entirely from 3.2 million adults in a typical month, including 800,000 parents of school-aged children. When these adults are cut off SNAP, their entire households receive reduced food benefits. Roughly 1 million children would see their food benefits cut substantially as a result.

ASK: Now is the time to do outreach to your Senator and request that they do not extend SNAP work requirements to parents with school-age children. Majority Leader Thune has shared his intention to move quickly to pass a bill out of the Senate (over the next two weeks). Once the Senate passes its version of the bill, it will need to be passed in the House before going to the president’s desk.

ACTION: Send an e-letter mobilization to your U.S Senator to share how SNAP and Medicaid help families in your community and encourage them to preserve and strengthen these programs.