Basic Needs
Basic Needs Initiatives
By forging partnerships, by mobilizing both human and financial resources, and by inspiring people to join us to create solutions, we support a foundation of safety net services that provide these basic needs:
WV 2-1-1
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, trained specialists are on hand to provide information about local programs that supply basic need help and beyond.
THE BIG COVER UP
United Way of the River Cities engages high school students to join the fight for the basic needs of other youth.
BASIC NEEDS FUNDED Programs
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter — $20,000 — Providing utility assistance for emergency safe shelter for victims of domestic violence. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence counties.
Cabell- Huntington Coalition for the Homeless — $15,000 — Providing safe shelter, personal care items, prescription medications and transportation for their Harmony House Day Shelter program. Serving Cabell and Wayne counties.
Children’s Home Society of West Virginia — $20,000 — Providing Food, clothing, personal care items, and infant essentials from their basic needs pantry. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, and Wayne counties.
Community Mission Outreach — $12,000 — Providing food from their local Lawrence County food pantry.
Cridlin Food and Clothing Pantry — $15,000 — Providing personal care items including cleaning supplies and infant essentials. Serving Cabell and Wayne counties.
Facing Hunger Foodbank — $15,000 — Providing food for their Lincoln County Backpack Program for eight schools in Lincoln County.
Gabriel Project of WV — $12,845 — Providing infant essentials including portable cribs, car seats, diapers, baby formula in their Cabell and Mason pantries and a client services site in Lincoln County. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, and Gallia counties.
God’s Hands at Work — $20,000 — Providing infant essentials including such as car seats, formula, and baby food, diapers, wipes, and safe sleeping accommodations for their pantry located in Gallia County. Serving Mason and Gallia counties.
Harvest for the Hungry — $12,900 — Providing personal care items from their food pantry located in Ironton, Ohio. Serving Lawrence County.
Harvest for the Hungry — $7,042 — Providing a senior citizen nutritional drink program with a 3-day drink packet. Serving Lawrence County.
Huntington City Mission — $20,000 — Providing food for their community feeding program. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Wayne, and Lawrence counties.
Lincoln County Family Resource Network — $5,000 — Providing resources including food and personal care items, and infant essentials out of the Lincoln County Pantry. Serving Lincoln County.
RLB Ministries/Backpack Buddies — $20,000 — Providing food, clothing, personal care items, infant essentials and safe shelter for their backpack program located in Lawrence County. Serving Lawrence County.
The Salvation Army of Huntington — $20,000 — Providing food from their local pantry located in Cabell County and off-site location in Lincoln County and utility assistance including electricity, natural gas, and water. Serving Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, and Wayne counties.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Community Outreach — $20,000 — Providing food and personal care items for their blessings box, seasonal care bags, and mobile food supplies programs located in Cabell County. Serving Cabell County.
