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 our 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 People's Health

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 healthy.

United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. 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.

Gifts of time, talent, and financial resources make the work of United Way possible. In 2008-09, United Way will invest nearly $1.7 million in our community; the majority of these funds are the result of individual gifts small and large. Volunteers from all walks of life provide leadership, oversight, and implementation supporting every aspect of United Way's work: daily operations, fundraising, community investment, and financial practices.