Program areas at United Way of Forsyth County
United Way's approach to creating lasting changes in community outcomes by investing funding in community-wide initiatives focusing on education, economic stability and health. United Way encourages funded partners to work together to create comprehensive, integrated programs to address our community's needs.
Housing matters is an initiative of United Way in partnership with the city of winston-salem and Forsyth County to support the winston-salem/forsyth County continuum of care implement and achieve its strategic goals. United Way's staff specficiallly provides leadership to the continuum of care including the commission on ending homelessness, operates the community intake center and provides leadership and coordination to the Forsyth rapid re-housing collaborative.
United Way's approach to creating lasting changes in community outcomes by investing funding in a placebased strategy (place matters) in thirteen neighborhoods in northeast winston salem. United Way encourages funded partners to work together to create comprehensive, integrated programs to address our community's needs.
The Forsyth promise facilitates education-focused collaborative, community-wide planning and action. We provide a framework to help all community stakeholders work effectively together toward the goal of improved educational outcomes for Forsyth County's students from cradle to career. Our core values are education equity, inclusive stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision making. The winston-salem poverty thought force is a community wide collaboration spearheaded by the city of winston-salem to identify steps both feasible and impactful to reduce the number of residents living in poverty. The poverty thought force was formed in october 2015 and comprises 22 members representing a broad range of winston-salem's civic and academic insititutions. The poverty thought force has five subcommittees that focus on various aspects of poverty, including health and wellness, housing and homelessness, jobs and workforce development, education and life skills, and hunger and food insecurity.