UWYC

05/12/2026

Day of Action is June 11! Join us for our biggest volunteer day of the year. This year's projects include:

🤖 Building STEM kits with CARE Academy kids
🚶‍♂️‍➡️ Distributing door hangers highlighting 211 and Lantern
🏠 Creating community resiliency kits

This is a great event for individuals, businesses groups, or other organizations. Whether it's your first time volunteering or you're a long-timer, Day of Action is for you!

Sign up here: https://app.dvforms.net/api/dv/00d5d4

05/08/2026

60,000+ Diapers. 110,000+ Wipes. Thousands of dollars in donations.

Yellowstone County showed out for the Community Diaper Drive! It's this kind of support that helps build a stronger community for everyone! The Family Promise YV Diaper Bank now has several months' supply of diapers and wipes to help local families.

Thank you to the dozens of businesses, individuals, and organizations who donated diapers and wipes, hosted their own collection sites or diaper drives, or made financial donations. Whether you donated $1 or 1,000 diapers, you made a difference.

A special thank you goes out to Western Security Bank, Intermountain St. Vincent Regional Hospital, and Q2 News for hosting drop off sites yesterday and putting their time, effort, and expertise into make this drive a success!

05/07/2026

Business partnerships help our Diaper Drive thrive! Check out this haul from Phillips 66 Billings Refinery employees.

05/07/2026

The diapers and wipes are rolling in! We’re on our way to our Community Diaper Drive goal of 70,000 diapers and 70,000 wipes to stock the Family Promise YV Diaper Bank!

Drop off diapers and wipes TODAY, May 7, at these sites:

Q2 News Downtown office: 6am - 6pm
United Way’s office at 2173 Overland Ave: 8am - 6pm
Western Security Bank’s West End and Heights locations: 8am - 6pm
Intermountain St. Vincent Regional Hospital’s West End Clinic: 7am - 5pm

Thank you to everyone who’s already donated to help children and families in our community!

05/06/2026

Anyone who has ever changed a diaper knows how important a helping hand can be. That's why our business partners are so important during our Community Diaper Drive!

We've had dozens of locations collecting diapers and wipes over that last several weeks, and we'll have a group of SUPERSTARS hosting drop-off sites TOMORROW, May 7!

🏦 Western Security Bank's West End and Heights location: 8 am to 6 pm
🏥 Intermountain St. Vincent Regional Hospital West End Clinic: 7 am to 5 pm
🎥 KTVQ's Downtown Offices: 6 am to 6 pm

And of course, we'll have our drop off site at United Way of Yellowstone County from 8 am to 6 pm.

05/06/2026

Learn how your advocacy can help everyone in our community thrive! Register here for the Billings event: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C9ZHQ2G

📅 May 12, 9-10:30 am, UWYC's office: 2173 Overland Ave in Billings
🍵 Meal included
👂 We want your input!

This month: Zero to Five Montana Policy Road Show heads to Billings, Lodge Grass and Miles City.

Our 2026 Community Conversations: Policy Agenda Road Show is underway! The Zero to Five Montana team is headed to Billings on May 12, Lodge Grass on May 13 and Miles City on May 14.
🔗 Check out the full schedule (including a virtual option!) on our website: zerotofive.org/2027-legislative-session/

We’re excited to get back out into communities and engage directly with Montanans to elevate policy opportunities, uplift stories, build advocacy skills and develop relationships.

05/05/2026

The Community Diaper Drive drop-off day is almost here! On May 7, we're going to be part of an all-day extravaganza with the goal of collecting 70,000 diapers and 70,000 wipes!

Donate diapers and wipes at:

🎥 The Q2 News downtown office from 6 am - 6 pm.
🫶 Our UWYC offices from 8 am - 6 pm.
🏦 Western Security Bank's West End and Heights locations from 8 am - 6 pm.

Why diapers and wipes? With access to clean diapers and wipes...

🤱 Both moms and kids stay healthy
🏠 Families meet other needs like housing and food costs
❤️‍🩹 Leads to better health outcomes as children age

05/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who donated during Yellowstone Valley Gives -- not just to United Way of Yellowstone County, but to the 100+ participating nonprofits doing great work in our community!

05/01/2026

Today's the final day of Yellowstone Valley Gives! We love seeing the support that our community has for local nonprofits!

Check out our page for this community-wide giving event: https://www.yellowstonegives.org/organizations/united-way-of-yellowstone-county

Don't forget, we've got a $5,000 matching gift to support our literacy programs!

04/30/2026

We've got a $5000 matching gift for Yellowstone Valley Gives to help get more books to local kids! This community-wide giving event continues through Friday!

View our page here: https://www.yellowstonegives.org/organizations/united-way-of-yellowstone-county

Thank you to the Mhyre Family Foundation for standing up for literacy. Programs we support delivered 68,000 books to local kids last year -- most of whom haven't started school yet and are in a critical developmental phase for reading skills.

Why does building home libraries for our youngest children matter?

🐣 Even before children can read, reading to kids help them develop skills that help them become lifelong learners.
📚 Children who have more books at home tend to go on to become strong readers.
🎓 Kids who don't read on grade-level at third grade struggle to catch up.
🏢 A strong education system supports local workforces and a robust economy.

04/29/2026

We had a blast kicking off Yellowstone Valley Gives! On Thursday and Friday, this community-wide giving event is a great way to support local nonprofits!

View our page here: https://www.yellowstonegives.org/organizations/united-way-of-yellowstone-county