United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley

United Way is focused on three priority areas that we believe are essential building blocks for a great life: health access, economic mobility, and educational equity. Our approach is unique because we invest in programs that meet a need, achieve results and are good stewards of resources. Volunteers, who are donors and leaders, review and assess programs to determine funding. Each year, people across our community benefit from programs and initiatives made possible through generous contributions. Over the past year, United Way funding ensured help was available to meet the growing needs across our community.

United Way programsthe volunteer center assists the organization by promoting volunteering programs needed in the community.community schools provides a neighborhood-based initiative led by the organization aimed at transforming schools into centers for creating neighborhoods where the strategy, schools, students, families, and community thrive as a unit to achieve student success. This transformation is achieved through robust family and community engagement, complemented by the integration of essential social services. Community schools United currently serves dorothy height, martin luther king, jr., and brewer early innovation academy in muscogee county, ga, and phenix city elementary school in russell county, al. These schools are each supported with a full-time community school coordinator, through an organizational employee. In cooperation with the city of columbus, home for good: the allianceto end homelessness is charged with implementing the 10-year plan to end homelessness. the 10-year plan provides the framework for advancing the community from a model of managing the immediate needs of homelessness to ending homelessness through long-term planning and key strategies.211 United Way Chattahoochee Valley provides a single point of entry for all residents of the community to access assistance with online and telephone access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Individuals will receive access to emergency assistance, self-help and quality of life services, childcare and many other health and social services. the program will serve 8 counties and connect people to the assistance they need to address challenges of everyday living as well as those that develop during times of disasters and emergencies.the c4c/chips initiative was created to take advantage of economic development opportunities presented by the $280 billion chips (creating helpful incentives to produce semiconductors) and science act. the c4c effort began in september of 2022 when the first stakeholders were engaged in the concept of creating a regional technology hub for semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing in the Chattahoochee Valley as a part of the United Way's poverty reduction initiative to reduce by half the regions' 20% poverty rate within 10 years by job creation. C4c has also established a strong partnership with Georgia tech and other higher education institutions in support of this effort.