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The 2-1-1/United Way Helpline has handled 4,455 tax-related calls since December 2009. In mid-February, UWCA funded partner Foundation Communities reported nearly 7,000 tax returns filed, totaling $17,476,930 in refunds. Earned Income refunds, totaling $6,751,098, made up 75% of the returns.
To learn more about what UWCA is doing to improve Income in our community, click here.
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Just a $1 per week contribution will improve your community with:
16 reading books for vulnerable children through United Way Success By 6.
9 meals delivered to older adults or those with disabilities.
19 days of mentoring for at-risk youth.
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“Being a volunteer leader with United Way Capital Area is a great experience. It’s so easy to become a volunteer leader and it’s so rewarding!”
Ivaly Sanford
Volunteer Project Leader
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Volunteer and Live United:
Living United
“I choose to LIVE UNITED because I believe United Way brings together individuals, businesses, nonprofit agencies, and governments in a uniquely collaborative way.”
- Marie Baker, Member,
UWCA Board of Directors
Community Impact Focus Area: Income
Goal: Empowering families with the knowledge and tools to become financially stable
As the saying goes, "Sometimes, there's too much month left at the end of the money." And for far too many Central Texas, this is the reality: work hard, make a little money, pay for the bare minimums, then do it all again with the next paycheck.
The result? Almost half of us are living in poverty or teetering precariously on the brink of it. In fact, 40% of Central Texas families live below the Family Budget Estimator (FBE)---the real and basic costs of living in our region.
The United Way Strategy
When it comes to making families financially safe, we are focused on employment, housing, and financial management initiatives. By doing so, we hope to help families make more money and increase their assets.
Bank On Central Texas
Bank On Central Texas is a community initiative led by United Way and PeopleFund to bring together banks, credit unions, financial services providers, government, private sector, community organizations, and nonprofits to bring more people into the financial mainstream. BOCT will seek to open 6,000 new accounts in the first year of the campaign, and maintain or upgrade 80% of these initial accounts.
How will BOCT accomplish this?
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| Maximize & Increase Income Strategies | Build Saving & Assets Strategies | |
| Employment | Workforce Development/Training Literacy/Adult Basic Education English As a Second Language | Higher Education Small Business Development |
| Housing | Transitional or Rental Housing Emergency Financial Assistance | Home Ownership |
| Financial Management | Earned Income Tax Credit Banking the Unbanked Access to public benefits Financial Education | Credit repair and debt reduction Matched savings products/IDAs |
Defining Success
We're committed to measuring the success of our efforts. If something works, we pursue it. If something doesn't, we change it or find a new approach. It's really that simple. And here are some examples of how we'll gauge our overall success…
- Significant increase in the number of individuals employed at wages above the "Family Budget Estimator"
- Greater percentage of individuals and families living in safe, affordable housing
- Larger percentage of individuals and families effectively managing their resources/incomes
- Increased number of institutions that provide services that support the financial needs of low-income and low-asset families
UWCA Feature
Living United“I choose to LIVE UNITED because I believe United Way brings together individuals, businesses, nonprofit agencies, and governments in a uniquely collaborative way.”
- Marie Baker, Member,
UWCA Board of Directors
Being Accountable
We believe we have a responsibility, both to our donors and to the community, to ensure that the dollars people entrust to us are invested in the most effective ways that will produce the greatest measurable impact on lives, enabling Central Texas to thrive, providing opportunities for a better life for all. Our investment strategy unites our network of funded partner agencies and collaborations under a set of shared goals, and ties our funding to the achievement of specific measurements, increasing our likelihood of driving substantial change in our region.
