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Advancing the Common Good:
Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All

 

Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

That's why across the nation, United Ways' work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

  • Education Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
  •  Income Promoting Financial Stability and Independence 
  • Health Improving Peoples Health 

Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.

United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.

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Did you Know?

  • People who volunteer and give live longer, are healthier and report being happier.
  • When you give through United Way, you're supporting more than one issue, one charity, or one cause.
  • The dollar just doesn't stretch as far as it used to - and agencies are reporting a growing need for services.
  • When things are hard, they are the absolute hardest for people that United Way is designed to help, for example, seniors on fixed incomes.
  • Every gift is important.  Every gift can change a life.  Reach out a hand to one, and influence the condition of all.

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Giving to United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties means helping your neighbors. Invest your time, money or resources in the building blocks of a good life.

 

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