United Way community project MatchBridge was featured this week on KQED Radio News. The four-minute segment, “Help for Teens Facing a Bleak Summer Job Market,” describes how MatchBridge provides meaningful summer jobs for teens. Listen to the audio clip.
Reject Budget Cuts to Children's Health Care
June 7, 2010 By
One of the ”muscles” that United Way flexes in our community impact work is advocating for sound public policy. Below is a recent letter to the editor from United Way CEO Anne Wilson, written in response to the Governor’s recently proposed budget revisions, which could put health care out of reach for thousands of our state’s poorest children. The letter appeared in [...]
KQED Radio Features Earn It! Keep It! Save It!
March 25, 2010 By
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.
Undocumented Workers Tackle Their Taxes
March 3, 2010 By
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. [...]
2-1-1 Makes Headlines Throughout the Region
February 23, 2010 By
Last week, United Way released data about 2-1-1 for the nine-county Bay Area, which indicated call volume surged 39% last year. Several media outlets reported on the surge in demand – click the links below to read or listen to news coverage. KCBS Radio – 211 Social Service Assistance Calls on the Rise Contra Costa Times – Calls [...]
United Way Report Featured in SF Chronicle Editorial
January 11, 2010 By
United Way’s “Struggling to Make Ends Meet in the Bay Area” report was featured in The San Francisco Chronicle editorial, “Poor are educated and employed.” Below is an excerpt from the piece: Want to have enough money to meet your basic needs in California? Then don’t be a woman, don’t be a parent, and don’t be a person of [...]
2-1-1 Featured on KCBS Radio
January 5, 2010 By
Quote of the Day
December 29, 2009 By
I want to get work experience. I’m trying to find myself, to see what I want to be when I get older, to see what kind of worker person I am.” — Kile Grayson, a Solano Middle School 8th-grader, who is participating in a new internship program for American Canyon teens From the Times-Herald article, [...]
ABC-7 News Features SparkPoint and 2-1-1
December 21, 2009 By
Quote of the Day
December 3, 2009 By
“We can’t just worry about getting people placed into jobs, it’s about getting people placed in the right thing with a career ladder,” – Denise Gammal, United Way of the Bay Area vice president of research and evaluation. From the Santa Cruz Sentinel article, “Lack of good jobs makes Santa Cruz County toughest spot in Bay [...]
