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Thank You Merced County for donating 1055 books
through our Barnes & Noble Book Drive.
These books will benefit children in our head start programs,
local schools and nonprofit agencies.
What an awesome way to give back to your community!
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United Way and the American Human Development Project
have created a tool to forecast how things might change
in our community if educational outcomes were better.

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Building Healthy Communities Project
In 2009, The California Endowment (TCE), a statewide public health foundation, announced its Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Initiative in 14 selected sites in California. The areas of South Merced, Planada, Le Grand and Franklin/Beachwood make one of these sites. BHC is working with residents, community leaders and decision makers to change existing systems and policies for children to be safe, healthy, and ready to learn. We want your involvement and support. For more details about the Building Healthy Communities Plan, please visit The California Endowment site at www.calendow.org

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United Way of Merced Country is beginning to conduct a comprehensive community asset and needs assessment to identify the most urgent health and human service needs right here in our community. That research is guiding our new community impact strategy, which focuses on solving our most pressing community problems by addressing the underlying causes. Our community impact strategy focuses on two specific areas: