Agency Partners
Support From Our Local Corporate / Non-Profit Queen Anne’s County Partnerships
Queen Anne’s county is filled with wonderful companies and individuals who step up and offer their help. We can not thank them enough. Download, fill out application, and scan it back to become a partner.
2026-27 Application are now closed.
Check back in February 2027 for next years application.
Bay Area Young Life Capernaum
our mission: Young Life’s mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith.
our vision: Capernaum’s vision is to invite teens and young adults with and without disabilities to discover authentic friendship, growth, and purpose.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Eastern Shore
Helps children and youth reach their fullest potential through evidence-based mentoring relationships and a broad range of services with quality standards and measurable impact. Funds support enrolled youth facing adversity living in QAC who receive consistent case management, regular progress evaluations, and free activities and resources from professionally trained staff.
Community Mediation Upper Shore
Builds and provides community based conflict resolution and peace building services at no cost. Allocations will support the QAC Public School Peace Team which offers on site mediation for middle school students. Approximately 1,000 students are involved.
Del-Mar-Va Inc., Scouting America:
For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Today, these values are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives
Easterseals Camp Fairlee
Camp Fairlee provides residential camping experiences that excite, challenge, and build the skills of people with disabilities; and provides their caregivers with a respite from the responsibilities of continuous care.
Haven Ministries, Inc.
Provides help to the poor through shelter, clothing, food, and support. They continue to operate a homeless shelter, emergency food pantries, resource center, street outreach, art program, warehouse, and thrift store. Funding from the United Way of QAC is specifically for the Food Pantries.
Horizons of Kent and QA
Horizons of Kent and Queen Anne’s hallmark is its tuition-free, academic and enrichment program serving PreK-8th grade students in families from underserved communities. Horizons advances educational equity and prevents the summer slide by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to close the opportunity gap and end the cycle of poverty in Kent and Queen Anne’s counties.
Kent Island Federation of Arts, Inc.
Provides visual and performing arts opportunities to county residents and neighbors through education, classes, gallery shows, summer camps and other forms of outreach. Allocations from the United Way of QAC will support Summer Youth Camp, 12 disabled students to attend free programs
Queen Anne’s Chorale
Enhances the artistic lives of Bay Area residents through a variety of quality choral music. We welcome adult and youth singers in our community chorus and provide skills development in an atmosphere of camaraderie. United Way of QAC funds will be used to support performing spring and fall Chorale concerts.
Together Rebuilding
United Way funds help support the repairs of home, etc. for local poor families and senior.
Talisman Therapeutic Riding
Talisman Therapeutic Riding is a non-profit organization offering a variety of programs to create therapeutic opportunities while providing exposure to an environment of well-being and learning.
United States Colored Troops Memorial
This monument honors the United States Colored Troops and all Union soldiers and sailors from St. Mary’s County who fought during the Civil War. It pays special tribute to USCT soldiers, Pvt. William H. Barnes and Sgt. James H. Harris who earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of New Market Heights, Va., in September 1864. Joseph B. Hayden of St. Mary’s County, a white Civil War sailor in the United States Navy, earned the Medal of Honor for his bravery on board the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, during attacks on Fort Fisher, 13 to 15 January 1865.
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CRITERIA FOR AN AGENCY TO BE CONSIDERED FOR FUNDING BY THE
UNITED WAY OF QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY
- Tax-exempt organization: Qualifies as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code for at least 2 years. (Must supply IRS number and date received).
- Operates under valid Articles of Incorporation and has adopted a formal set of bylaws stating:
- Location of agency
- Purpose of agency
- Population served
- Governed by a volunteer board that serves without compensation, is rotated on a regular basis, and
maintains formal public records that reflect:- Number of meetings
- How board members are appointed
- How officers are determined
- Responsibilities of officers and board members
- Dates of appointment
- Length of terms of office
- All officers, directors, and staff are bonded, covered by liability insurance
- Attendance at meetings (past and current)
- Minutes of meetings (including any formal action taken)
- Frequency of meetings
- Provides services directly to the residents of Queen Anne’s County for a period of not less than two
years prior to the calendar year of the campaign. - Does not necessarily duplicate the services in the County offered by other agencies.
- Has an operating budget of not less than $5,000 for the previous year.
- Has documentation of how operational funds were obtained in the past.
- Issues an annual financial report audited or reviewed by an independent public accountant in
compliance with generally accepted accounting procedures that is available to the public on request.
Over $500,000 please send your most recent 990
From $250,000 to $449,999 please send most recent 990 or audited/reviewed financial report
Under $250,000 please send financial statement SIGNED BY TREASURER OR CEO (or any of above) - Develops a proposed operating budget signed and certified by chief executive officer and/or Treasurer.
- Provides certification that it is in full compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Has
a formal policy of non-discrimination and affirmative action.