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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
Our Work
Community Investment Grant Results 2008-2009
United Way Capital Area is working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health.
These are the building blocks of a good life: a quality education, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
By bringing together people and resources to address these issues, and by attacking their underlying causes, we hope to make lasting, fundamental change---for everyone.
In keeping our work as effective as possible, we partnered with community leaders to reassess our role in improving community conditions. What we discovered gave us pause:
- 15.2% of Travis County residents live below the federal poverty level.
- 40% of our children enter kindergarten 12-18 months behind their peers developmentally.
- 1 out of 4 students entering the 9th grade do not graduate from high school.
To help achieve these collective goals in our community, some of the new initiatives and collaborations of United Way Capital Area include:
Success By 6
United Way’s Success By 6 aims to make sure that by the time they enter their first year of school — at six-years-old-every child in Central Texas is prepared to become a healthy, happy, and smart student.
That can seem like a daunting task. So how does Success By 6 do it?
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1 Hour For Kids
1 Hour For Kids seeks to recruit 400 new volunteers, specifically for middle school students. This initiative brings together eight nonprofits that specialize in providing mentors and tutors to vulnerable youth. These eight organizations work with kids in different ways, but all of their programs have shown the positive effect of connecting youth to supportive adults.
Why focus on middle school students?
Click here to learn more and begin volunteering with this exciting collaborative.
Bank On Central Texas
Bank On Central Texas is a community initiative led by United Way and PeopleFund to bring together banks, credit unions, financial services providers, government, private sector, community organizations, and nonprofits to bring more people into the financial mainstream. BOCT will seek to open 6,000 new accounts in the first year of the campaign, and maintain or upgrade 80% of these initial accounts.
How will BOCT accomplish this?
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Being Accountable
We believe we have a responsibility, both to our donors and to the community, to ensure that the dollars people entrust to us are invested in the most effective ways that will produce the greatest measurable impact on lives, enabling Central Texas to thrive, providing opportunities for a better life for all. Our investment strategy unites our network of funded partner agencies and collaborations under a set of shared goals, and ties our funding to the achievement of specific measurements, increasing our likelihood of driving substantial change in our region.
