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There are just a few weeks left in this year’s tax filing season, and United Way’s Earn It! Keep It! Save It! free tax assistance program is on track to serve more than 55,000 low- and moderate-income tax filers in the Bay Area. We recently met returning client Jonathan H. at the free tax site at Mission Economic Development [...]
United Way is recruiting professional financial planners as volunteers for our SparkPoint Centers throughout the Bay Area. We need your expertise to achieve our goal of cutting Bay Area poverty in half by 2020. One in five Bay Area families has income too low to meet basic needs. Most will never have the opportunity to [...]
Christa Brown is an AmeriCorps VISTA, who is spending a year working at United Way, supporting our SparkPoint program. Here, she describes her experience in her own words: As a recent college graduate, I was seeking an opportunity to make a difference and to work for an organization that I believed in. After interning at countless organizations, I still was still [...]
United Way’s Loaned Executive program offers a unique opportunity for Bay Area professionals to give back to the community, while providing their employers with an “out-of-the-box” way to cultivate the next generation of company leaders. This fall, six Bay Area professionals temporarily gave up their everyday jobs to spend three months working at United Way [...]
Valero recently kicked off its 2010 United Way Campaign with a chili cook-off at the company’s Benicia Refinery. Valero employee-chefs vied for bragging rights and the coveted People’s Choice award. Check out photos from the festivities below. Click to see more fun ideas for events and activities your company can host during its United Way [...]
As part of FedEx’s 6th annual Cares Week, a team of 45 FedEx employees from around the Bay Area helped United Way host a community resource fair at the SparkPoint Oakland Center on September 24. The volunteers completed a wide range of tasks to support the event, which was held at Lion Creek Crossings, the [...]
The recent Great Recession has among other things caused many low- to moderate-income individuals to turn away from traditional financial services like banks. The reasons people give range from convenience to having quicker access to their paychecks. A recent USA Today article quotes many people who are turning to check cashing places because either they’ve had [...]
For the last three years, MatchBridge has teamed up with the real estate industry to offer the youth they serve an leg up in finding positions within the industry. The program is called Real Estate 4 Tomorrow’s Adults (RE4TA) and is a partnership between MatchBridge, United Way of the Bay Area, and the San Francisco [...]
Over on the Huffington Post, check out United Way National Women’s Leadership Council Chair Kye Kilpatrickt Fox’s op-ed, “It’s Time to Pass the Calling for 2-1-1 Act.” She points out that in times of disaster or emergency 2-1-1 is especially helpful, perhaps even more so as we sit on the edge of what may turn out to [...]
As part of helping the Bay Area get ready for the next disaster we’ve encouraged people to find out about and enroll in Emergency Response Training on a local level. Sometimes called NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Training) these community emergency response teams are composed of private individuals who sign up to receive training so they [...]
