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United Way’s Matchridge encourages businesses to open their doors and work with young people to enjoy the benefits they can bring to a workplace and to invest in the workforce of tomorrow. Since its inception, MatchBridge has taken every opportunity possible to offer paid internship opportunities to youth in the community including within their own [...]
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Using Google’s My Map feature we wrote about in Disaster Prep 2.0, we made a neat map of all the free Earn It! Keep It! Save It! tax sites in San Francisco. Of course, if you or someone you know wants to find [...]
Last week, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gathered the partners and leaders of Bank On California and announced that the statewide goal of opening 100,000 bank accounts had been reached in half the time. The Bank On program is a partnership between banks, community organizations, and local governments to bring people into the financial mainstream. By connecting [...]
When Earn It! Keep It! Save It! said they needed translators fluent in Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese, United Way Community Project MatchBridge was more than happy to respond.
Earn It! Keep It! Save It!, a community project of United Way of the Bay Area, is a free, tax-preparing service offered to qualifying individuals and families. [...]
What Is Affordable Housing? from the Center for Urban Pedagogy on Vimeo.
We often hear the term “affordable housing,” but what does it really mean? Well, our partners at United Way of King County in Washington State have uncovered a video that uses stop-motion to explain exactly what it means. From their Choose The Way blog:
The Center [...]
Learn more about United Way Worldwide’s response to the devastation in Haiti. Together with our partners in the area, and around the world, we can make a difference for the long term.
A few weeks ago, during our event at the Commonwealth Club, Director of PR Maria Stokes, caught up with Corrin Buchanan, the Community Programs Director at the Women’s building in San Francisco. According Corrin, there is a lot of demand for their free tax services, and she noted that a lot of people who’ve made [...]
Scott Whitney and his family have been hit hard by the economic recession. The California State employee lost a significant portion of his income last year when the governor ordered furloughs to help address the state budget gap. Despite taking a second job on weekends, Scott, a father of two, recently fell behind on [...]
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest, and arguably the most effective, anti-poverty program in the United States. It lifts millions above the poverty line each year—half of them children. Unfortunately, as many as a quarter of eligible low-wage workers nationwide fail to claim the credit, which can now bring a family of [...]
San Francisco resident Cynthia Bryant took six months off from work to care for her ailing 88-year old mother. After Cynthia’s mother passed, finding work took longer than she expected and she began to fall behind on her rent. Needing temporary assistance to help her through the tough patch,Cynthia called United Way’s 2-1-1 community information
line [...]
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