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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 [...]
The first few years of a child’s life are so important, and it has been said that 90% of the brain’s growth occurs from ages zero to five. With the help of partners across the Bay Area, United Way is working both directly with children to boost their reading skills and learning potential; as well [...]
Recently Kelly Batson, Regional Director of Earn It! Keep It! Save It! was featured on Comcast talking about her love of taxes, and more importantly, helping low income families get the largest refund possible. It’s their money, they earned it! Watch the video and let your friends and family know about Earn It! Keep It! [...]
“It’s hard to deal with the stress outside my door when it’s a battlefield in here…”
—Bobby Hagen, Mission SRO Resident from Mission Loc@l’s excellent series on people living residential hotels.
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