Our Work

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Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All

 

Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

That’s why United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

  • Education: Helping children and youth achieve their potential
  • Income: Promoting financial stability leading toward independence
  • Health: Improving people’s health

United Way works to improve people’s lives and change community conditions by:

  • Providing leadership on education, income, and health in our communities
  • Mobilizing volunteers, businesses, and other organizations and connect them to community needs
  • Investing Community Fund dollars based on alignment with United Way outcomes
  • Identifying additional resources to address community needs
  • Making possible philanthropic contributions to local non-profits
  • Measuring and communicating results, needs, and successes

United Way’s goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of the problems we face in our communities.  Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.