Overview

A bold new approach to LIVE UNITED

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United Way is the region’s leading provider of innovative solutions to the community’s most pressing issues. Working with other nonprofits, businesses, donors and volunteers, United Way funds projects that provide positive, measurable, results on vital health and human services issues, giving you the chance to give, volunteer and advocate in support of the causes you care about most. Together, we have made a powerful, measurable difference on issues like health care for children, child abuse prevention, preparing foster youth for success and keeping teens in high school. But we can do even more: United Way is now working to make a bigger impact.

Beyond our own relationships, beyond our own projects, beyond our own vision, lies a chance to reach even deeper to create lasting change.

United Way is teaming up with regional partners, including school districts, government, funders and more, to make dramatic improvements in our regions’ education, income and health over the next seven to 10 years. With each of us bringing our resources expertise and commitment to the table, we are creating powerful strategies that will create measurable and lasting change in our community.

We invite you to join us! Will you give, advocate or volunteer? will you LIVE UNITED?

Find your way to LIVE UNITED.

Now more than ever, our community needs you–your energy, passion, and commitment. How will you LIVE UNITED? Support United Way’s bold new strategies:

  • Give to United Way focus areas: Education, Income and Health.
  • Donate to your favorite nonprofit–any nonprofit.
  • Rally your friends, family and coworkers to get involved in a cause.
  • Volunteer with us or one of our nonprofit partners.

UNITED WAY’S impact over the next six years

  • Families of 24,695 uninsured children received help enrolling in low-or no-cost health plans.
  • More than 2,200 at-risk children and their families each year received prevention, intervention and therapy to reduce the risk of child abuse.
  • More than 320 foster youth each year were better prepared to live on their own.
  • More than 1,400 teens at risk of dropping out of school each year participated in positive programs run by teens, and 99 percent stayed in school

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