Purchase supplies, host a supply drive, or make a donation to provide a backpack filled with grade appropriate school supplies for a local student.
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In partnership with our community, we are creating lasting change in these focus areas.
Our goal: End family homelessness in our entire four-county footprint by 2025.
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Our goal: Empowering Minds Schools will elevate the mental wellness of 21,000 high school students by 2030.
Our goal: 15,000 people will be ready to start stable careers having overcome key employment barriers by 2029.
Our goal: We will provide 50,000 computers to people who need them across our four counties by 2027.
Ways you can help make an impact in our community.
United Way is rolling out an updated funding model called Impact Based Funding.
Volunteer to help distribute laptop computers to our community through United Way's Techquity initative.
Donate school supplies at New Berlin and Waukesha Walmart Supercenters to support local students this new school year.
Nominate a leader in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who is making extraordinary commitments to our local nonprofit community.
Join us at the Baird Center as we launch our 2025 Community Campaign! Our campaign co-chairs will share messages of inspiration and discover what you can do to help us reach this year’s campaign goal.
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County unequivocally denounces racism and ethnic discrimination in all its forms because it undermines the well-being and vitality of our communities and is in direct opposition to what it means to Live United. Read more...
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Meet the organizations that have been selected for Reducing Barriers to Employment & Advancement funding opportunities in 2025-26.
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Meet the schools participating in our Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds initiative for the 2025-26 school year.
Meet the organizations that have been selected for Safe & Stable Homes funding opportunities in 2025-26.
Meet the organizations that have been selected for funding through the Mental Health Improvement Fund in 2025-26.
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