Board Chair: Frank Dobisky
Campaign Chair: John Maclean
Theme: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Goal: $2,188,230

The theme, Food For Thought, introduced the serious subject of the difference MUW makes in the lives of people of the Monadnock Region, while allowing for fun through materials and events featuring a diner theme. Days of Caring grew to include 93 volunteers from 17 businesses.

After the Columbus Day weekend floods, Monadnock United Way played a key role in the region’s short and long-term response to the flooding and devastation to people’s homes, businesses and community. In the earliest days of the disaster, MUW provided continuous critical and timely information to agencies and volunteers that, they in turn, passed on to co-workers, families and friends who were then able to access support services quickly. At a gathering of national, state, regional and local volunteer groups meeting to formulate disaster recovery efforts, it was the Monadnock United Way that advocated to utilize local programs already in existence to manage the long-term relief efforts. From this disaster, Monadnock United Way, Southwestern Community Services, Monadnock Collaborative and NH Bureau of Emergency Management formed a new collaborative group known as Operation Flood Recovery.