Since then, individuals and families across the region who were financially impacted by COVID-19 turned to UWEC and its nonprofit partner agencies to provide them with critical services and basic needs such as food, stable housing and medical care. Starting with a donation of $125,000 from the Gulf Power Foundation, UWEC’s COVID-19 relief fund raised a total of $318,888 that was distributed to 20 local nonprofits providing rent, utility and mortgage assistance; emergency food and shelter; health care; and child care. "UWEC cannot begin to express enough gratitude to their corporate part...