See our video below to learn how Greater Capital Region residents LIVE UNITED. Across our community, people are GIVING, ADVOCATING and VOLUNTEERING with United Way. The result is a stronger, healthier community with opportunities for a better life for all. United Way recruits the people and organizations that bring the passion, expertise and resources to get things done!
Purchase a $1 Pin-Up at any Price Chopper register during the month of August and LIVE UNITED. Together, we can transform our community. All donations are matched by Price Chopper (up to $60,000).
Were you at our annual Community Campaign Celebration at The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center? Read about the event and see this year's list of extraordinary corporate supporters. Their generosity is strengthening our community.
Tee up for Family and Children's Service of the Capital Region's 1st Annual Autumn Golf Classic to benefit United Way 2-1-1 Northeast Region. Join us September 20, 2010 at the Colonie Country Club in Vorheesville. Sponsorship opportunities are available as well. Learn more and register.
Join us October 6, 2010, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College's Bulmer Telecommunications Center for United Way's Volunteer Awards, Video Premiere and Annual Meeting. Come out and celebrate the stars of our community! Register here.
In times of economic uncertainty, it is important to remember those in our community who need help - many for the first time. United Way of the Greater Capital Region invests in education, income and health, which are the building blocks for a good quality of life and strong community. Last year, we touched 100,000 lives. Please give, advocate and volunteer on behalf of our friends and neighbors across the greater Capital Region.
More than half of Capital Region residents believe social conditions have worsened for most people over the last year, according to a Siena Research Institute poll conducted in partnership with United Way of the Greater Capital Region. The good news is: 89 percent of respondents agree the community needs everyone's help and many recognize the potential to make a personal contribution toward the common good. Read more and view the complete survey results.
A PORTRAIT OF OUR COMMUNITY
Our commitment to advance the common good has, at its heart, using the best research and social development practices to address the underlying causes of problems. See the research that drives United Way of the Greater Capital Region to make the greatest impact in your community.Click here to read the new Greater Capital Region Community Profile.
