United Way of Bay County short $32,500 for annual Back to School clothes drive

via MLive.com


The United Way’s Back to School clothes drive is in danger of not meeting the community’s needs for the first time in the program’s seven-year history. Halfway through the annual distribution, the United Way has only been able to purchase clothes for 700 of the 1,200 kids who qualified for the program this year. At $65 a pop, that equates to a $32,500 shortfall. "We have never seen these kind of numbers before," said Vicki Ribble, community improvement director for United Way. "We just had so many more children than ever. Last year, we had about 800 total."


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