Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities to Improve Lives
Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health. That’s why United Way of Marion County’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:
Education
Strategic Areas:
- Improving access to quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities
- Partnering with communities and parents to improve school readiness and to improve reading and tutoring
- Providing after-school academic support and mentoring programs for at-risk youth
- Improve academic performance
Income
Strategic Areas:
- Supporting basic needs while increasing financial education and independence
- Helping working people build income and assets
- Providing opportunities for long-term financial stability
- Decrease homelessness by providing shelter and job opportunities
Health
Strategic Areas:
- Increase health education and preventive care
- Providing opportunities that promote independence for individuals with disabilities
- Reduce occurrences of substance abuse, child abuse and domestic violence
- Supporting services to help seniors remain healthy and independent in their homes
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help us all. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable and when people are healthy. The goal of our work is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems through our Community Care Fund.
