A New Start From New Generation
Ending Homelessness
United Way is proud to include New Generation as a funded agency partner doing critically important work every day with women and their children. It’s a place where the urgency…
Black History Month Resources and Learning Opportunities
DEI
The DEI Learning and Development subcommittee is leading our internal learning journey as a collective United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley staff. Each month, the committee selects a…
Virtual Campaign 101 with Unitil
Corporate Social Responsibility
For 20 years, Unitil has run a United Way campaign to engage employees in giving back and coming together for a cause they care about. Due to the pandemic and…
1,750 Learning Kits Distributed To Local Kindergarteners
Supporting Young Children
When kids enter kindergarten ready to read, everyone wins. This year, learning is being disrupted in a way none of us have ever dealt with before. From months of interrupted…
Honoring Mike Durkin: A Community Celebration
“The three words that I think about most when I think about Mike Durkin: opportunity, hope and possibility…Your leadership, all you’ve done for the people here in the Commonwealth of…
Civic Engagement In The Greater Seacoast, Empowering Students of The Granite Youth Alliance
Preparing Youth to Succeed
When asked if she can name any skill The Granite Youth Alliance has helped her with, in the course of her civic engagement in the Greater Seacoast, high school sophomore…
Big Problem, meet Big Opportunity
Preparing Youth to Succeed
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you know that today’s young people are a force to be reckoned with. With a passion for social justice, unlimited research capabilities and…
Year of Impact: More Kids on the Seacoast are Ready for Kindergarten
K-Ready Kids outfitted 1750 kids in the Seacoast with the school supplies they needed to enter kindergarten ready to learn. K-Ready Kids works to ensure that kids on the Seacoast…
Helping Early Education Providers Work Smarter
Supporting Young Children
A new shared services alliance is transforming early education, helping small providers act like economies of scale. A small early childhood center has a problem with their plumbing, but it’s…
A Program in Somersworth NH is changing the playbook on kindergarten readiness
Supporting Young Children
Somersworth Ready Together sends kindergarten teachers into students’ homes before school starts, easing first day jitters so kids can start learning right away. In her 19 years of teaching kindergarten,…