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Minority Entrepreneurship: The Fight For Opportunity

COVID-19 has impacted small businesses throughout our region, and throughout the country.  Nearly all small businesses have felt the effects, but minority entrepreneurs have been...

Helping the Helpers: Why the health and wellbeing of our nonprofit community matters

Each year, United Way partners with hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey area to dismantle poverty and expand opportunities...

Read Across America: Brighter Futures for Kids

Help us fight for literacy for every child in Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey The connection between education and a successful future is pretty...

Beyond Literacy: An Early Learning Investment Strategy

Why Early Learning investments should focus on ensuring children and families thrive   At United Way, we partner with hundreds of organizations throughout the region to...

United for Impact: A Year Like No Other

Like so many others, we found it incredibly difficult to reflect on the year 2020. The collective loss we felt as a team, a community,...

Give Local: The Power of a Workplace Campaign

For decades, companies large and small have teamed with United Way to offer their employees the opportunity to conveniently give to local nonprofits through annual workplace campaigns. United Way’s workplace campaigns do...

Our Sincerest Thank You

Each year, hundreds of individuals would normally gather in person for our Women United Gala to highlight the impact of local women leaders and the...

Reimaging Postsecondary Education in a COVID-19 World

United Way’s Dr. Nikia Owens, PHD, Managing Director of Financial Empowerment and Carniesha Kwashie, MS, Director, Job Opportunities Investment Network (JOIN), were recently published in...

A DONATION FOR OUR FUTURE

When Erica heard about the Women United COVID-19 Diaper Drive, she immediately knew the impact it would have on the lives of so many parents,...

A CLOSER LOOK: UNITED FOR EQUITY

 An in-depth look at United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey’s support for communities of color We are on a mission. A mission to...

A CLOSER LOOK: UNITED FOR RECOVERY

 An in-depth look at United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey’s support to drive region-wide COVID-19 recovery.   Opportunity. It looked a lot different in...

Summer reading for kids simplified! Go on…

COVID-19 has shifted and reshaped life as we know it. From the C-Suite to the classroom, virtual interaction is becoming our new normal. To combat...

Next Steps for Racial Equity and Action

Two weeks ago, we made a public commitment to take clear and quantifiable action toward becoming an actively anti-racist organization. While we have already engaged...

Women United – COVID 19 Diaper Drive

Just ask any parent: when COVID-19 struck our communities, life as we knew it was up-ended.  As our communities look toward the promise of reopening...

Our Commitment to Equity and Action

As we walk through a particularly sickening time for our region and our nation, words fail to describe the grief, outrage and deep sadness shared...