• It coordinates a free tax preparation service for people with low and moderate incomes, using volunteers to help figure $1.54 million in tax credits and savings.
• People Gotta Eat effort raises money and food separately for food pantries -- worth $153,300 from June 2010 through May 2011.
• Community Access Network provided $40,678 in utility aid to needy residents over the past year, along with budgeting help.
• Its runs a call center for the toll-free number 211, directing callers to places to volunteer or find help. The South Bend center fields calls for St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Fulton and LaPorte counties.
• It passes out a prescription savings card that, it reports, saved area customers nearly $2.27 million this past year in all of the counties served by South Bend's 211 call center. (For a card, call 211 or visit www.uwsjc.org/our-impact/2-1-1.html.)

• $80,000 to support at-risk Latino and black children at El Campito, a preschool on South Bend's west side that also is a United Way agency. El Campito Director Susan Enamorado said her board is developing a strategic plan for El Campito's future, and that will help to decide how the money is used. It will still need to meet United Way approval.
• $95,000 to support at-risk students at the South Bend Career Academy, a charter school that opens this fall with project-based curriculum and a focus on careers. It will start out with students in seventh through ninth grades, adding a grade each year until it also has a high school. Co-founder Steve Hartz said no decision has been made yet about how to use the money.

The allocations themselves will begin July 1. A total of 60 programs at 23 agencies will receive one year of funding, a total of $1.7 million. Each had to fall under one of the United Way's focus areas: health, education or income.

An additional $284,617 in "donor designated" money will go to specific agencies, earmarked for them by donors.

There were a few minor adjustments and a few new programs.

Several programs applied for funding for the first time but didn't get it because the United Way didn't feel they were ready to produce the expected results, said Karen Sommers, vice president of community investment.

Thirty-six volunteers served on the four panels that screened each program's application and decided on the allocations. The United Way's board approved the decisions.

Among the few increases, the Street Outreach program at the Youth Service Bureau will see its funding grow from $37,241 to $44,882.

"We think that's one of the phenomenal programs in the community," Sommers said.

Camp Fire USA River Bend Council will receive $14,000 for its Camp Tannadoonah, up from $5,000. But Camp Fire also didn't ask for funding for its Camp Tawanchi, a program that it has passed along to the city of Mishawaka's park department.

Camp Fire did everything you'd expect of an agency to become efficient, Sommers said. It sold property, and it will combine positions once the director leaves in September.

Among the new programs, the Literacy Council of St. Joseph County is adding a "Skill Builder Workshop" for an allocation of $6,000, and the Parents As Teachers program at Community Coordinated Child Care will get $18,000.