Why contribute through United Way?

Nowhere can you find more ways to touch others and build a strong, caring community than through United Way. You may choose to give money, help identify our community’s priority need areas, or volunteer your time to mentor a young adult or ease an elderly person’s loneliness — the possibilities are limitless.

Get Together, Get Focused, Get Results

United Way’s unique ability to bring people, resources and needs together means you’ll always be able to contribute in the way that is most fulfilling to you. By helping, you and your neighbors pool your interests and resources (“Get together”), then focus on the best ways to address our community’s most pressing needs (“Get focused”), United Way helps you change and save lives (“Get results”) through local human service programs that are right here for all of us, in good times and bad. That’s “the United Way.” That’s our United Way.

Local

United Way is a local agency, not a chapter of a national organization. Your donation helps people right here!

Trustworthy

Your donation is safe with United Way. For many decades, we've listened to you to learn how you want your donation spent. Our financial policies are carefully reviewed and audited by an independent, certified accounting firm and community volunteers.

Value

83 cents of every dollar you contribute goes directly to services, meaning more of your dollars reach people you want to help.

Focus and Impact

United Way enables you to increase the power of your gift by focusing funds and resources on our community's most pressing areas of need. Through your support, United Way agencies are available to help citizens of the Big Bend 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Quality

United Way Certified Agencies must adhere to sound fiscal policies and meet strict standards of service. Trained community volunteers who represent you oversee distribution of money to local agencies.

Please call (850) 414-0844 or send email to uwbb@uwbb.org to find out how you can help your community.

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