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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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Key Initiatives

In partnership with our community, we are creating lasting change in these focus areas.


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Safe & Stable Homes

Our goal: End family homelessness in our entire four-county footprint by 2025.

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Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds

Our goal: Empowering Minds Schools will elevate the mental wellness of 21,000 high school students by 2030.

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Reducing Barriers to Employment & Advancement

Our goal: 15,000 people will be ready to start stable careers having overcome key employment barriers by 2029.

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Techquity

Our goal: We will provide 50,000 computers to people who need them across our four counties by 2027.

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Current Happenings

Ways you can help make an impact in our community.


United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Impact Based Funding

United Way is rolling out an updated funding model called Impact Based Funding.

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Techquity Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer to help distribute laptop computers to our community through United Way's Techquity initative.

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Fill the Bus

Donate school supplies at New Berlin and Waukesha Walmart Supercenters to support local students this new school year.

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Previous P5 Winners

Philanthropic 5 Awards

Nominate a leader in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who is making extraordinary commitments to our local nonprofit community.

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2025 Community Campaign Kickoff

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.

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Anti-Racism Statement

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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Voices United Blog

Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds

Meet the 2025-26 Participating Schools for Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds

Meet the schools participating in our Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds initiative for the 2025-26 school year.

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Safe & Stable Homes Grantees 2025-26

2025 Grantees Announced for Safe & Stable Homes

Meet the organizations that have been selected for Safe & Stable Homes funding opportunities in 2025-26.

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Mental Health Improvement Fund Grantees

2025 Grantees Announced for the Mental Health Improvement Fund

Meet the organizations that have been selected for funding through the Mental Health Improvement Fund in 2025-26.

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2025 Philanthropic 5 Awards

Meet the 2025 Philanthropic 5

Meet our 2025 award winners: Mayra Alaniz, Betty Hill, Erik Kennedy, Tyler Odeneal, Tim Patterson, and Philanthropic Youth winner, Phin Clarkin.

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