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21/10/2022

Galvanized by this year’s Community Campaign Chair, Eric Tanzberger, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer at SCI, our friends at SCI (Dignity Memorial) have been getting out into the community to do some good! More than 80 volunteers participated in a variety of volunteer projects at Bread of Life, Houston Food Bank, and the Baker Ripley Food Fair to help our neighbors meet their basic needs. Thank you for all you do for United Way and our community, SCI Team!

21/10/2022

Today, we celebrated the 32 organizations and 41 programs that will receive $2,400,000 of United Way grant funding this year! These organizations work hard to address the greatest areas of need in our community and provide support to break cycles of poverty.

Thank you to our partners for all their diligent work, our panel members for taking the time to review all the grant applications, and to YOU, the community, for giving generously to make this possible!

This is what it looks like to for the good of all!

21/10/2022

Yesterday, ExxonMobil hosted their United Way Appreciation Expo to give their employees a chance to learn more about the work and impact their generosity makes possible. Employees gained further insight into our service areas at information booths, went through simulations of experiences our clients face, like budgeting as a family struggling financially, and spoke directly with our partner agencies. A special thank you to Staale Gjervik, President, ExxonMobil Global Services Company, and team for making this event such a success. We are so grateful to have such an incredible partner in ExxonMobil!

21/10/2022

The United Way believes in harnessing the power of communities working together to deliver lasting change. They invest in organizations and direct programs that achieve high quality outcomes in financial opportunity and educational success, aligned with best practices and research to provide them with extensive support for continued success. The United Way values partners that consistently demonstrate a commitment to collaboration and directs their funding to support the needs of vulnerable populations. They provide valuable unrestricted funds to non-profit partners, seed innovative, new approaches to solving entrenched community challenges and seek opportunities to scale programs, services and policy changes that work.

21/10/2022

United Way’s competitive grant program focuses giving in eight key priority areas, which were identified more than a year ago with the help of over 1,000 people United Way surveyed in the community and experts in the field, including agency partners and donor focus groups. More than 450 volunteer grant reviewers were recruited to read and help score the 198 applications submitted.

United Way selected 146 nonprofits for funding, which represents 20 new organizations and advances 12 to Lead Partners. The process strategically focused on organizations that would have impact across a broad spectrum of the community, granting awards through a lens of equity and deliberate consideration of agency size, geography, population served, quality of programming and effectiveness of solutions.

United Way’s eight areas of focus are: 1) ensuring high-quality early education and care; 2) funding two-generational approaches to school readiness; 3) enhancing social-emotional learning in school and outside of school; 4) ensuring youth who are disconnected from school or employment find a path to opportunity; 5) supporting job skills training and placement; 6) providing individualized coaching to increase financial well-being; 7) funding place-based Financial Opportunity Centers; and 8) ending family homelessness.We will never cease giving out our free grant. Thanks to Harvest Foundation and Habitat For Humanity for contributing to the united way grant.

21/10/2022

The way in which individuals give has changed dramatically over the last decade, requiring companies and organizations to think differently about how to more successfully engage with donors. United Way announced today that they have teamed up with Salesforce.org, a nonprofit social enterprise to create Philanthropy Cloud which aims to redefine the future of corporate philanthropy. This technology will allow people to not only connect to their own interests, but will utilize Salesforce Einstein AI technology to intelligently sift through millions of opportunities to create personalized giving recommendations to organizations and causes aligned to their interests that they may not even know about. Companies can easily integrate Philanthropy Cloud data to understand and communicate the collective impact of their employees. United Way will launch this technology locally this summer.

21/10/2022

As a trusted source for identifying effective programs and strategies, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley today announced it will distribute $30.8 million in support of strategies, organizations, partnerships and programs aimed at solving entrenched poverty and effecting upward mobility among those most in need across the region. United Way will award strategic grants to 146 non-profit partners, distribute dollars designated by donors to organizations in the region, as well as fund innovative initiatives and public policy work.

Also announced today was a key partnership aimed at generating even more resources to solve community problems. United Way has teamed up with the global technology company Salesforce to launch a new social platform called Philanthropy Cloud that will transform the way people engage with and support the causes they care about most. This new platform will allow companies to easily aggregate data to understand the collective impact of their employee giving, transforming the way companies align their philanthropic objectives with those of their workforce.

“As a leader in generating resources to fund community based work, it is our responsibility to find new ways to collaborate, innovate and drive a conversation that helps more people find financial opportunity and educational success for themselves and their families,” said Mike Durkin, President and CEO of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. “That is why we are eager to launch our new Philanthropy Cloud technology that will change the way donors tap into our community expertise and on the ground resources to connect to the work that they are passionate about in their own communities.”

21/10/2022

Congratulations to this new winning family.. THIS year united way will be helping 23,278 people you cab still be included