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Step Up to the Plate Housing Challenge

A $20 or more donation to United Way supports six local homeless shelters and enters you into a sweepstakes to win four Brewers tickets for a 2027 home game, a parking pass, Brewers merchandise, and the opportunity to throw out the first pitch!

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Key Initiatives

In partnership with our community, we are creating lasting change in these focus areas.

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Safe & Stable Homes: Housing Stability for All

Our goal: We will prevent homelessness for 40,000 people by 2032.

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Teen Mental Wellness: Empowering Minds

Our goal: Empowering Minds Schools will elevate the mental wellness of 21,000 high school students by 2030.

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Reducing Barriers to Employment & Advancement

Our goal: 15,000 people will be ready to start stable careers having overcome key employment barriers by 2029.

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Techquity

Our goal: We will provide 50,000 computers to people who need them across our four counties by 2027.

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Current Happenings

Ways you can help make an impact in our community.

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Project Homeless Connect

This annual event removes service barriers for people experiencing homelessness and connects them to free services and resources at one location.

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2026 Community Campaign

United Way’s 2026 Community Campaign runs now through December with a fundraising goal of $58 million.

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Holiday Giving Tree

Join United Way and the Holiday Giving Tree program in fulfilling holiday wishes to share gifts with our neighbors who may otherwise go without.

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Linda McFerrin African American Nonprofit Leadership Award

This award annually recognizes an outstanding African American nonprofit executive who has provided exemplary leadership in the community.

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Tech United Career Exploration Fair

Volunteer at the Technology United Career Fair where high school students have the opportunity to explore a variety of careers in technology.

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Women United SPREE

Support, raise awareness, and promote local women-owned businesses while raising money for United Way.

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United Way and Community Partners Are Ending Family Homelessness

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County set a goal: end family homelessness in our region by the end of 2025. On December 11, 2025, we announced that we have achieved this goal.

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Holiday Giving Tree Member Connect

Join Pride United and Diversity Leadership Society Donor Networks to celebrate our networks’ achievements, offer a meaningful volunteer opportunity, and share the impact we are making in the community.

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Anti-Racism Statement

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County unequivocally denounces racism and ethnic discrimination in all its forms because it undermines the well-being and vitality of our communities and is in direct opposition to what it means to Live United. Read more...