Metro United Way
History
Metro United Way is a local, independent non-profit organization founded in Louisville in 1917.
Today Metro United Way helps support more than 90 health and human service agencies serving residents of Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, and Shelby Counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison Counties in Indiana.
What We Accomplish
- Create solutions that help kids succeed, build strong families, promote health and independence and strengthen neighborhoods.
Improve more lives, touching two out of three people in our community at some point in their lives.- Get results for people through committed volunteer experts who study community needs and resources, set goals, and focus funding and volunteers on programs that make measurable improvements in people's lives.
- Make a greater difference in our community than any single organization can through partnerships with government, schools, businesses and other nonprofits like the American Cancer Society.
- Supply most of our community's disaster relief funding through agencies like the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.
- Invest donations right here at home. What's raised here is used to help families, friends, neighbors and co-workers right here in our community.
- Make donations work harder. Over 15,000 volunteers make contributions go farther, so the maximum amount goes to helping people in need.
- Provide the first place to call for health and human service information and referral. Metro United Way's 2-1-1 is there for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just dial 2-1-1 from any phone.
LIVE UNITED
Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All
Everyone deserves an opportunity 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 Metro United Way's work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:
- Education: Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
- Income: Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
- Health: Improving People's Health
Metro United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.
To find out more about the Metro United Way, visit their website www.metrounitedway.org or contact Sommer Lally
at sommer.lally@metrounitedway.org or 502-292-6161 or 502-379-1366 (cell).
