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Mission:
Crush Poverty

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Mission:
STUDENT SUCCESS

LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD

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oUR MISSION

Our mission is to mobilize resources to break the cycle of poverty and improve our community.

oUR VISION

Our vision is the Erie region is collaborative community of opportunity where all students succeed and all families thrive.

COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

United Way Community Schools bring resources into the school building that address and remove the specific nonacademic barriers preventing low-income students from being successful in school... And in life.

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211 HELPLINE

Connecting individuals and families to the help they need when they need it so that the home environment is stable and supported.

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Imagination Library

Providing free high-quality, age and developmentally appropriate books monthly to children from birth to their fifth birthday.

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MY FREE TAXES

United Way provides MyFreeTaxes®️ to help people easily and accurately file their own federal and state taxes for free. There are no income limits to using MFT, and you are able to file from the comfort and privacy of your own home! 

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Community Schools

211 Helpline

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH UNITED WAY 

We're in. Are you? What's raised in Erie County, stays in Erie County. Together, with you, we can improve the lives of children and families right here. Join us!

Where The Money Goes

10500 STUDENTS in Community Schools
8,194

211 Referrals to assistance

20821 GRADUATES from the Imagination Library

DEI STATEMENT

United Way remains an inclusive organization committed to our mission and vision and rejects all forms of prejudice, discrimination, racism and violence. United Way of Erie County is a proud signee of the Nonprofit Partnership's Diversity Equity & Inclusion Pledge.

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