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The 2-1-1/United Way Helpline has handled 4,455 tax-related calls since December 2009. In mid-February, UWCA funded partner Foundation Communities reported nearly 7,000 tax returns filed, totaling $17,476,930 in refunds. Earned Income refunds, totaling $6,751,098, made up 75% of the returns.
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Just a $1 per week contribution will improve your community with:
16 reading books for vulnerable children through United Way Success By 6.
9 meals delivered to older adults or those with disabilities.
19 days of mentoring for at-risk youth.
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“Being a volunteer leader with United Way Capital Area is a great experience. It’s so easy to become a volunteer leader and it’s so rewarding!”
Ivaly Sanford
Volunteer Project Leader
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Living United
“I choose to LIVE UNITED because I believe United Way brings together individuals, businesses, nonprofit agencies, and governments in a uniquely collaborative way.”
- Marie Baker, Member,
UWCA Board of Directors
About United Way Capital Area
Bringing people together
to advance the common good
United Way was built on the belief that together, we can accomplish more than any individual or organization can alone.
We’re bringing together the hearts, hands and minds of our region to make Central Texas the best place in the country for individuals and families to live and prosper.
United Way Capital Area is a locally run chapter of the United Way of America umbrella organization. Each United Way operates independently and is locally governed. A volunteer Board of Directors oversees our strategic direction and steers our financial decisions. United Way Capital Area serves a 10 county area comprising of Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis, and Williamson counties.
We help and collaborate with hundreds of local nonprofit agencies, providing financial, volunteer and advocacy support, and we review these agencies each year to ensure they do the best possible work in the community. We also advocate for social issues, convene community leaders from across all sectors to solve local human services problems, provide volunteers for a myriad of local projects, study and address long-term solutions to emerging social challenges, and we raise funds through workplace campaigns and individual donors.
During the more than 80 years United Way Capital Area has been part of the Central Texas community, many thousands of individuals have contributed to United Way and volunteered their time and talents.
What We Do
MISSION
United Way Capital Area advances our common good by driving measurable change and empowering people to improve the quality of life for themselves and others.
Where We Want to Be
VISION
United Way Capital Area envisions our community as a place where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income and healthy lives.
Why We Exist
PURPOSE STATEMENT
United Way Capital Area is in the business of building a healthy, educated and prosperous community by increasing volunteerism and philanthropy.
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How We Do the Work
We are holding ourselves more accountable to the community, to ensure that the funds invested in United Way are used to create real, long-term change. Through a research study by the Ray Marshal Center and with the help of countless community stakeholders, we've identified very specific, measurable outcomes we hope to achieve around key community issue areas: Education, Income, and Health.
