Information Refresher Session for Volunteers

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Why Our Dollars MatterTRIVIA QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERSbrought to you by
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Since 1991, by what percentage did the number
of homeless people living in the Twin Cities
increase?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Since 1991, by what percentage did the number
of homeless people living in the Twin Cities
increase?
A 149
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How many students does United Negro College
Fund (UNCF) support?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How many students does United Negro College
Fund (UNCF) support?
A UNCF supports about 65,000 students a year at
900 schools, including students at UNCF member
colleges and scholarship recipients.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What is the most visited wilderness area in
the United States?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What is the most visited wilderness area in
the United States?
A The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
(BWCAW), with over 200,000 visitors a year.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q According to recent studies, what proportion
of teen-age girls currently has a sexually
transmitted disease?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q According to recent studies, what proportion
of teen-age girls currently has a sexually
transmitted disease?
A 1 in 4 girls, age 14-19, have an STD. Family
Tree clinic brings STD prevention presentations
to classrooms and runs the MN STD hotline to
provide confidential answers to questions and
referrals to clinics, so the STDs can be treated
before causing permanent damage.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How many children and youth experience
homelessness on a daily basis in the Minneapolis
School District?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How many children and youth experience
homelessness on a daily basis in the Minneapolis
School District?

• MULTIPLE CHOICE
• 120
• 1,200
• 3,200

Heading Home Hennepin has a vision to end
homelessness in Minneapolis and Hennepin County
by the year 2016.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How many dollars per pay period would you
need to give in order to send a woman who is
recovering from alcoholism to a Womens Healing
Foundation at Hazelden, a Community Health
Charities partner?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How many dollars per pay period would you
need to give in order to send a woman who is
recovering from alcoholism to a Womens Healing
Foundation at Hazelden, a Community Health
Charities partner?

• MULTIPLE CHOICE
• 3
• 5
• 10

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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How does United Arts help people with
disabilities?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How does United Arts help people with
disabilities?
A By funding organizations that provide sign
language interpretation and audio description of
theatre performances around Minnesota.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q In Minnesota, food shelf usage has increased
by what percent in the last five years?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q In Minnesota, food shelf usage has increased
by what percent in the last five years?
A 45
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q UNCF's second Capital Campaign, kicked-off on
January 1, 1963. It was timed to coincide with
the 100th anniversary of the issuance of a
document by President Abraham Lincoln indicating
that he would free all of the slaves in states
rebelling against the union. Name the famous
document.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q UNCF's second Capital Campaign, kicked-off on
January 1, 1963. It was timed to coincide with
the 100th anniversary of the issuance of
a document by President Abraham Lincoln
indicating that he would free all of the slaves
in states rebelling against the union. Name the
famous document.
A The Emancipation Proclamation
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Where does untreated rain and melting snow
(and anything in its path, including pesticides,
antifreeze, motor oil, pet waste, etc.) go after
it enters the storm drains in the streets?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Where does untreated rain and snow-melt (and
anything in its path, including pesticides,
antifreeze, motor oil, pet waste, etc.) go after
it enters the storm drains in the streets?
A Directly into our lakes and rivers! In the
Twin Cities, that most likely means straight into
the Mississippi River.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What childhood disease, causing brain damage
and even death, is completely preventable and
does not require a vaccine?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What childhood disease, causing brain damage
and even death, is completely preventable and
does not require a vaccine?
A Lead Poisoning. The organization Sustainable
Resources Center screens children for lead
poisoning and helps families turn their homes
into lead-safe spaces.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What percent of the homeless in Minnesota are
children, youth, and young adults under the age
of 21?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What percent of the homeless in Minnesota are
children, youth, and young adults under the age
of 21?
A total of 2,726 children under the age of 17
experienced homelessness with their parents on
the night of a recent Wilder Research Center
survey.

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• 27
• 47
• 67

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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q When Community Health Charities newest
partner, St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital,
opened in the 1960s, the survival rate for
children with Leukemia was less than four
percent. Now, after over 40 years of research and
patient care, what is the survival rate for
children with Leukemia today?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER

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• over 26
• over 52
• over 81
• over 94

Q When Community Health Charities newest
partner, St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital,
opened in the 1960s, the survival rate for
children with Leukemia was less than four
percent. Now, after over 40 years of research and
patient care, what is the survival rate for
children with Leukemia today?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How is United Arts helping to address
societal issues?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How is United Arts helping to address
societal issues?
A By funding residencies in schools that
address bullying and racism.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What percent of food shelf clients are from
working households?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What percent of food shelf clients are from
working households?
A 47
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q The Gates Millennium Scholars Program, funded
by a grant from the Bill Melinda Gates
Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide
outstanding low-income African American, American
Indian, Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander
American, and Hispanic American students with the
opportunity to complete an undergraduate college
education in any discipline area of interest at
any institution they choose. What organization
administers the program and how much money was
initially pledged?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
A United Negro College Fund (UNCF) administers
the Gates Millennium Scholars Program to which 1
billion has been pledged.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
True or False? Two healthy, medium-sized trees
provide a years supply of oxygen for one person.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
True or False? Two healthy, medium-sized trees
provide a years supply of oxygen for one person.
A TRUE
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What percentage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or
transgender (GLBT) youth are kicked out of their
home when they come out to their parents?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
A One study found that 26 were kicked out and
many more left to escape abuse. Homeless GLBT
youth are more likely to use drugs, participate
in sex work, and attempt suicide. District 202,
a safe space by and for GLBT youth, has a
homeless youth outreach program to get these
youth back into safe living conditions.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How many homeless people are there on any
given night in the state of Minnesota?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How many homeless people are there on any
given night in the state of Minnesota?

• MULTIPLE CHOICE
• 3,500
• 5,000
• 9,000

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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Community Health Charities improves the lives
of those affected by chronic illness by proudly
teaming up with how many charities?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER

• MULTIPLE CHOICE
• 15
• 30
• 4
• 50

Q Community Health Charities improves the lives
of those affected by chronic illness by proudly
teaming up with how many charities?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How is United Arts helping to raise test
scores in schools?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How is United Arts helping to raise test
scores in schools?
A By supporting arts organizations that are
using music education as a catalyst to strengthen
K-12 core curriculum.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What percent of food shelf clients are
seniors?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What percent of food shelf clients are
seniors?
A 20
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What U.S. college or university prepares and
sends more African-American students to medical
school than any other?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What U.S. college or university prepares and
sends more African-American students to medical
school than any other?
A Xavier University of Louisiana(They also
prepare and send the most African-American
students to graduate programs in the sciences
too!)
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Blind Minnesotans were able to vote without
assistance, and therefore privately, for the very
first time in what year?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Blind Minnesotans were able to vote without
assistance, and therefore privately, for the very
first time in what year?
A Blind Minnesotans were able to vote without
assistance in 2006. Other notable voting years
include 1865 the year African-Americans got the
right to vote  (although it took laws passed in
1963 and 1964 to guarantee that right) and 1920
the year women got the right to vote.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What do you think is the main reason that
adults reported leaving their last regular or
permanent housing?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What do you think is the main reason that
adults reported leaving their last regular or
permanent housing?

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• Could not afford the rent
• Loss of a job or hours cut
• Drinking or drug problem

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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
True or FalseYour gift to Community Health
Charities can be made in honor or in memory of a
loved one.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
True or FalseYour gift to Community Health
Charities can be made in honor or in memory of a
loved one.
A TRUE
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q How much does a family of four need in yearly
income to meet the basic needs of food, housing,
healthcare, and childcare?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q How much does a family of four need in yearly
income to meet the basic needs of food, housing,
healthcare and childcare?
A 54,900
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Who donated 5 million of Standard Oil stock
to the United Negro College Funds (UNCF's) first
Capital Campaign in 1950?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Who donated 5 million of Standard Oil stock
to the United Negro College Funds (UNCF's) first
Capital Campaign in 1950?
A John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
True or False? People will pay 3-7 percent more
for properties with a lot of trees than for
properties with few or no trees.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
True or False? People will pay 3-7 percent more
for properties with a lot of trees than for
properties with few or no trees.
A TRUE
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q What is the least well-known form of
affordable housing in Minnesota?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q What is the least well-known form of
affordable housing in Minnesota?
A mobile and manufactured homes
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Over the last 6 years, how much have the
number of job openings in Minnesota fallen by?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Over the last 6 years, how much have the
number of job openings in Minnesota fallen by?
A 45
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Which U.S. Senator donated his Pulitzer Prize
money for his biography, Profiles in Courage, to
the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) in 1957?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Which U.S. Senator donated his Pulitzer Prize
money for his biography, Profiles in Courage, to
the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) in 1957?
A John F. Kennedy (As you can see, you are in
good company when you give to UNCF!)
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA QUESTION
Q Who is the largest private landowner in
Minnesota?
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA ANSWER
Q Who is the largest private landowner in
Minnesota?
A The Nature Conservancy
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA
Last year, thanks to generous donors like you,
United Way, one of the federations we support
through the Community Fund Drive, was able to
Give more than 4,700 children ages 5 and under
dental services through United Way Bright Smiles.
Provide some 16,500 parents, pregnant women, and
kids with oral health instruction encouraging
healthy habits which will reduce costly future
problems.
Make 360,000 referrals to the United Way 2-1-1
community help line.
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Why Our Dollars Matter TRIVIA
Last year, thanks to generous donors like you,
United Way, one of the federations we support
through the Community Fund Drive, was able to
Give family violence solutions and conflict
resolution support to more than 67,500 families,
including 24,000 children.
Help more than 10,500 people receive resources to
become financially stable through better jobs,
reliable transportation, financial education, and
tax credits.
Collect 4.8 million additional pounds of food for
local food shelves.