Community Champions
Community Champions are businesses, organizations, and groups who give back to their local community by funding basic needs for vulnerable children and families before they reach a point of crisis.
Community Champions are alerted by CarePortal to real-time, verified needs of children and families in the local area. By providing for a specific request, Community Champions enable trained Response Team members at local churches to deliver items directly to the family.
Community Networks enable businesses to make a real impact in their local community.
Making a Difference as a Community Champion
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Create a culture of giving back by providing your team with meaningful opportunities to support children and families in the community.
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Invest in your community by donating to support your local Community Network that is working together to ensure fragile families receive practical help when they need it most.
When you give back in this way, it meets essential needs for local families, increases collaboration within the community, and reduces the burden being shouldered by caseworkers and agency staff.
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Giving back shouldn’t take a lot of your time. We make it easy for you to choose the approach that works best for you - funding direct needs, making a monthly donation, or a blended approach that let’s you do both.
We make it simple to invest in your community in ways that align with your company values.
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Your custom Community Champion account makes it easy to track and celebrate the economic impact of what your team has given when funding specific needs through the CarePortal platform.
As a Community Champion, you can strengthen your business, organization or community group while making a real difference for vulnerable children & families.
What Community Champions Are Saying
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"Our business became a Community Champion, and it changed the way we see our role in the community. The impact is real, the process is simple!"
Brad G., Current Community Champion
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71% of employees say it’s imperative or very important to work in a company culture that is supportive of giving and volunteering.
America’s Charities Survey
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"CarePortal allows our entire staff to be engaged in helping keep families together. Being a part of the network has been very rewarding for our Bank. One of our goals is to help our community grow, and CarePortal is a great partnership to make that happen.”
Bank of Mauston
3 Ways to Make an Impact as a Community Champion
Fund Local Needs
The “direct-impact” option
Donate to your local CarePortal Fund to provide funds for meeting needs OR use CarePortal to view and fund real-time needs facing local kids and families.
Through CarePortal you can fund the needs you want to meet — a bed for a child, diapers for a baby, a couch for a family getting back on their feet. You make the decision on which needs you respond to.
Best for: Businesses and groups who want to meet needs directly, including the option of funding specific real-time needs.
Be a Monthly Partner
The “behind-the-scenes” option
All CarePortal needs in Wisconsin get met through the support of our staff team.
As a Monthly Partner, you donate directly to invest in the staff, systems, and operations that keep Community Networks across the state running smoothly.
That’s something many business owners understand the value of, even when it's less visible than meeting direct needs.
Best for: Businesses and groups who want to support the infrastructure that makes it all possible for families to get this support.
A Blended Approach
The “best-of-both” option
Split your monthly donation 50/50 between Family Connect's general operations and a county-specific CarePortal Fund.
Your donation helps to meet real needs for families in your community AND support our staff to make it happen — all without needing to regularly log in and choose which needs to fund yourself.
Best for: Businesses and groups who want to make a consistent, low-maintenance impact in both ways.
Community Champions Create Impact
You can carefully choose the needs you want to meet and track your impact while leading your team to make a difference in the local community.