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Interested in helping out in your community? As an Earn It! Keep It! Save It! volunteer, you’ll provide free tax filing help to low- to moderate-income families to help them keep more of the money they have earned. We also need volunteers to greet taxpayers and serve as interpreters at local tax sites. Many volunteers [...]
For Anna Jackson-Hill – a college student juggling tuition, housing expenses and books – free tax help was exactly the break she needed. Rather than paying for taxes, she was able to leverage United Way’s’ Earn It! Keep It! Save It! program, which provides free, high-quality tax help to low-income workers. “For the past three years, I have been a faithful client [...]
Jane is a single mother of five who first walked through the door of the Earn It! Keep It! Save It! free tax preparation site at Community Action Marin in 2009. United Way and Community Action Marin have partnered for several years on Earn It! Keep It! Save It!, offering free tax assistance and asset-building [...]
KQED Radio’s Cy Musiker produced a great news segment about Earn It! Keep It! Save It!, the Bay Area’s largest free tax assistance program, which is lead by United Way. Listen to the audio clip from KQED News. To find free tax help in the Bay Area, call 2-1-1 or 800-358-8832, or visit www.earnitkeepitsaveit.org.
This past January in Fremont, the mayor, members of the city council, and others gathered at Fremont Family Resource Center to celebrate National Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day. During the event, Fremont Family Resource Center was also presented with a $10,000 check by Citi to support their EITC work. According to recent reports, [...]
New research finds California will miss out on more than one billion because an estimated 800,000 eligible Californians will neglect to claim over $1.2 billion in federal Earn Income Tax Credit (EITC) dollars this tax season, according to the new report Left on the Table, published through a collaboration between the New America Foundation and [...]
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 [...]
Did you know that paying income taxes is the law for anyone who earns wages in the United States, including undocumented immigrants? Each year, United Way’s Earn It! Keep It! Save It! provides free tax filing assistance to thousands of undocumented workers in the Bay Area, helping them to participate in our country’s tax system. [...]
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 [...]
