Your community needs you. Every time you take on a new experience, you're growing. In addition to being the advocate for three children in one family, Brown has given presentations on child abuse and shaken baby syndrome for the Child Advocates. She has also campaigned for the United Way of Greater Wichita Falls, letting people know where their dollars go at Child Advocates. Child Advocates gets 17 percent of its budget from the United Way, and Lawson said the United Way funding helps fill in where grants and private funding fall short.
Some grants are so specific.
They pay for one program and nothing else. The United Way fills in where other grants don't, but they also watch over their money.