The United Way of Greater Waterbury

The United Way works collaboratively with and strategically invests in community partners to help solve community problems. The United Way provides leadership, convenes and facilities community conversations and initiatives on priority issues. The United Way provides staff leadership and serves as fiduciary for several partnerships including The Greater Waterbury campership program which enables children from low-income families to attend summer camp and bridge to success, a cradle to career initiative. The United Way also takes a lead role in food insecurity initiatives such as holiday assistance program and stock The pantry.

Allocations and funded agency relations - The United Way allocates/invests funds in local health and human service programs and initiatives that help people in need. Through The outcome measurement initiative The United Way assists its funded programs in developing and implementing a system to measure The impact of their services on their clients. Using The outcome measurement data, The United Way communicates The value of these services more effectively, while providing individual programs with a tool to improve their committee which works to address include dozens of local non-profit agencies and collaboratives such as The food resource committee which works to address local hunger issues, bridge to success whose focus is on positive youth development, and The continuum of care/can who are working to end chronic homelessness.