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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:

  • Youth Opportunity – All children and youth deserve pathways of opportunity, from their first day to their first day on the job.
  • Financial Security – Everyone deserves the opportunity to earn a living that can sustain a family and build security for future generations.
  • Healthy Community –Everyone deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life through access to quality health education and nutritious food.
  • Community Resiliency – Call or click 211, the 24-7 resource that connects people across the U.S. with help for housing, food, financial assistance, and more.

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.

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