United Way Vision, Mission, and Goals:

Our Vision
United Way envisions a world where all individuals and families achieve their
human potential through education, income stability and healthy lives.


Our Mission
United Way improves
lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance
the common good.


Our Goals
In 2008, United Way initiated a 10-year program designed to achieve the
following goals by 2018:
 

  • Improve education, and cut the number of high school dropouts — 1.2
    million students, every year — in half.

  • Help people achieve financial stability, and get 1.9 million working
    families — half the number of lower-income families who are financially unstable
    — on the road to economic independence.

  • Promote healthy lives, and increase by one-third
    the number of youth and adults who are healthy and avoid risky
    behaviors.

Our goals are ambitious, but with your help, and by utilizing our core
strengths — a national network, committed partners and public engagement
capacity — we can achieve them.