When you don’t have a proper place to sleep and store your belongings, or access to reliable transportation, errands take a lot of time. “All the things I did in the last three hours typically [...]

Connect for Good offers young professionals in our Emerging Leaders group a chance to really engage with how United Way’s programs change Seattle for the better. The Connect For Good [...]

Our community has been in a homelessness crisis for years—and when you’re in crisis for that long, people sometimes stop talking about the issue. The KOMO 4 piece that ran this week, with the [...]

United Way’s Community Resource Exchange is like Christmas for 63-year-old Miss Johnson, who slept outside the CenturyLink Event Center the entire night to make sure she was one of the first in [...]

More than 1,600 people experiencing homelessness came out to be the center of more than 500 volunteers’ and 100 service providers attention at CenturyLink. But today was about more than the numbers.

Danielle was nearly done with the early childhood development certification at Highline College that her employer was paying for. But with a 3-day "pay or vacate" notice, all of that was at risk. [...]

Guest blogger Mackenzie Martin reflects on the #BalanceForBetter panel this week in honor of International Women’s Day. As a United Way Emerging Leader 365 donor and committee member, Mackenzie [...]

We’re dedicated to creating a community where people have homes, students graduate and families are financially stable. And a major tool in breaking the cycle of poverty to become financially [...]

At the Community Resource Exchange, we pull out all the stops—from hot coffee donated by Starbucks to haircuts by generous stylists and new socks from Amazon. What would otherwise take days for [...]

The need for school breakfast highlights racial inequities in the fight for access to healthy food. Studies show that the need for school meals is great—21.8 million students eat free- or [...]