Our Impact Fund fuels a two-generation approach to building youth success and family stability to help more people break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. But the Impact Fund is about more than making grants to our nonprofit partners…it’s about moving the needle against poverty in a holistic, sustainable way.
Estefany
Growing up in Camden, Estefany always dreamed of making a difference for urban students. Through the network of devoted staff at United Way Impact Partner’s UrbanPromise, Estefany became a mentor, leader and role model among her peers. Now she is pursuing her lifelong goal of becoming a teacher, setting her on the path to being a leader in her community.
Support for our Impact Fund enables United Way to surround a complex issue like intergenerational poverty to drive measurable results and lasting change.
Through the Impact Fund, we:
These skills position us to:
Why? Because stability in the nonprofit sector paves the way to increase the scale and efficiency of the programs that work best to help people break the cycle of poverty.
We invest in nonprofit partners to advance a two-generation approach to ending intergenerational poverty. Our Impact Partners deliver measurable results in the areas of Early Learning, Career Pathways & Pipelines, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Community Stability & Advocacy. From education and financial stability, to health and basic needs, the work we fund supports the development of successful youth and financially stable individuals and families.
With your support
90%
will read on a grade level by the end of the third grade.
With your support, we will help
300K
individuals overcome poverty.
50K
youth aged 15–25 will reconnect to school or work with your support.
