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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 [...]
The following guest post is the first of a three-part series by Dr. Douglas Rice, who volunteers as a financial planner with United Way’s SparkPoint program. SparkPoint Centers are one-stop financial education centers that help families move out of poverty and achieve lasting financial stability. Learn more at www.sparkpointcenters.org. If financial literacy were taught in [...]
For every personality, there’s a match. Find yours at The Board Match event – the best way to explore nonprofit board membership in the Bay Area. More than 100 Bay Area nonprofits will be waiting to meet you at The Board Match on January 11, 2011 from 4:00 – 7:00 pm at Moscone Center South. [...]
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 [...]
In this time of need, United Way is proud to share that Wells Fargo has completed the largest community support campaign in Bay Area history! Several companies in the Bay Area organized generous campaigns this year including San Francisco-based Wells Fargo — posting a record $8.5 million in pledges — to highlight the record-setting local [...]
GET HELP: The holidays are right around the corner, and United Way wants people in need to get connected! Call 211 today to find out about holiday assistance programs, such as free holiday meals, food baskets, toys, adopt-a-family programs, and counseling for the holiday blues.. Because of the recession, demand for holiday help is expected to be [...]
This holiday season, United Way is organizing an “Adopt a Nonprofit” program to connect generous Bay Area companies with some of our best nonprofit partners. We are asking companies to fulfill a nonprofit’s wish list – items that the organization desperately needs, as well as gifts for the families and children it serves. Last year, [...]
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 [...]
As United Way’s Joan Byrne pulled up to Garfield Elementary School a couple of weeks ago, she was delighted to see a farmer’s market selling fruits and vegetables right in front of the school. Many of these vegetables came from the school’s garden, which United Way, UPS volunteers and the Oakland Raiders built together during the [...]
Fall is the time that childcare centers, preschools, and family childcare providers across the counties refresh and relaunch their Raising A Reader programs. The most important thing they need, of course, are new books for the red book bags that go home every week to the families! The Raising A Reader team depends on volunteers [...]
