Game changer
More than 70 agencies have their own pages and links to their websites in community resource directory for non-profits.
Gone are the days of scratching out
old phone numbers or addresses for Rome
and Floyd County’s six dozen nonprofit
agencies and hastily scribbling in the new
information.
Thanks to the efforts of the United Way
of Rome & Floyd County, all you need now
to find pretty much any local resource is
a cell phone or computer and one simple
URL: uwrome.org/guide.
There you will first discover an online
Resource and Information Directory with
more than 250 current and easily-updated
phone numbers for everything from
adoption and senior services to abuse
prevention and employment training.
Just below that, click on the 80-
page Online Community Resource &
Engagement Guide and suddenly Rome’s
unending benevolence becomes very
clear.
“Service and engagement are an
integral part of our local culture and
now information and opportunities are
readily available and at our fingertips,”
local United Way CEO Alli Mitchell said
just before the directory and guide went
live on the United Way of Rome & Floyd
County website.
In the Guide, each of more than 70
nonprofits and civic organizations have
their own page, organized by seven
categories: Adults with Special Needs &
Seniors, Basic Human Needs, Children &
Family, Civic Organizations, Community
Engagement, Homelessness & Housing
and Physical & Mental Health Recovery &
Support.
On each of those pages, there are
direct links to those organizations’ own
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By K.T. McKee
United Way CFO Alli Mitchell shows printed copy of the guide.
websites. And each listing can be easily updated through a
user-friendly form accessed through one of the first pages
of the Guide.
“It’s a living, breathing document that will always be
relevant,” Mitchell said.
It was Jeff and Mary Margaret Mauer, co-founders
of Restoration Rome, who initially approached Mitchell
last year about the idea of reviving the 2-1-1 community
information line once routed through Dalton.
It didn’t take long for the Mauers and Mitchell to
realize the community needed something better than 2-1-
1.
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