Projects and partners
The United Way has a strategic belief that a strong system of quality agencies must be supported to meet basic community needs and prevention and development services. Additionally, there are also opportunities to partner with other organizations to ensure public and private resources are used to facilitate organizational change and improve service delivery for the betterment of the region.
Projects
2-1-1
The United Way of Greater St. Louis is managing an expanded information and referral service, partnering with 11 United Ways across the state of Missouri and funded by the Missouri Foundation for Health.
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Dollar More
Funded by voluntary contributions from Ameren customers, the United Way disburses funds from the Dollar More program to help Missouri and Illinois families needing assistance to pay their utility bills.
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100 Neediest Cases
Each year, the United Way teams up with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the community to help more than 10,000 families in need. Your generous donations make the holiday season a joyous one for thousands of people in the St. Louis region.
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Partnerships
Labor partnership
Since World War II, the United Way has partnered with members of organized labor in helping our community. Union members help make a huge difference in our community through the United Way by contributing time, skills or money. And we’re committed to providing members and their families with confidential help in their time of need.
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Initiatives
Initiatives combine projects and partnerships to address specific issues in the United Way service area. To facilitate the United Way's involvement in these special initiatives, the Community Investment Committee sets aside funding annually; this is a growing stream of funding, with a goal of $500,000 by 2009.
Quality early child care and education
Supporting quality early learning systems and services, working to ensure children are ready to succeed in school by the age of six. Long-term initiatives include Success by 6® and Born LearningTM. Other initiatives are categorized into professional development opportunities, reading readiness or access to quality care.
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Financial stability and independence
Empowering people to move themselves from poverty to an improved quality of life, through financial education, consumer training and access to asset-building resources and supports. These initiatives are categorized as becoming bankable, financial education, asset building, predatory lending prevention and intervention or housing foreclosure prevention and intervention.
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Faith community mobilization
Facilitating, connecting and strengthening faith-based programs and services in order to link congregational resources and strengths to community needs. Initiatives in this focus area are grouped as social development, healthy living, academic support or homeless intervention services.
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