Our Work
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 and Independence
Health – Improving Peoples' Health
Basic Needs – Access to basic needs services through 2-1-1
We believe these are the four building blocks to a good life and make a difference in strengthening families and community, helping kids succeed, promoting independence and health, and meeting basic needs. Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are health, and when people know where to turn for resources and supportive services.
United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underling causes of these problems. LIVING UNITED means being part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working to create a brighter future.
GIVE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER. LIVE UNITED.
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