United Way of Southwest Alabama fights for the health, education, financial stability, and access to life’s basic essentials for every person in every community we serve.
Our Work
We know that for many United Way is well known, but not well understood. That’s why we want to make sure you know what we do: we bring together donors, volunteers, businesses, nonprofits, faith-based, community leaders, government, experts, and those in need.
Our Mission
United Way of Southwest Alabama’s mission is to improve the quality of life in the community. We strengthen communities by focusing on uniting and mobilizing resources that make the fight for education, health, financial stability, and access to life’s basic essentials a win for every person in every community we serve.
Our Impact
By targeting solutions in identified high-need communities, UWSWA can change the trajectory for families, their communities, and ultimately the region as a whole. This will require us to be more proactive in advancing solutions, not simply responding to requests for funding, and must include setting forth and achieving relevant outcomes and performance indicators.
United we fight. United we win.
We are addressing the issues that are hard to face – and too hard to ignore. We need you to join the fight because United we fight. United we win. We have one life. To live better, we must Live United.
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Get Involved, Make a Difference
Our communities are full of people who want to help and organizations in need of them. Our goal is to bring people and organizations together so we can all Live United!
Become a Volunteer
United Way mobilizes hundreds of volunteers in Southwest Alabama each year, including individuals and groups working to improve homes and neighborhoods, collect food, clothes and other essentials for those in need, or give their time to read to or tutor our at-risk children. We also organize group volunteer activities to provide excellent team-building activities for employers and organizations either on-site or off-site, while providing valuable service to those in need in our community.
Financial Stability
23.4% decrease in percentage of people aged 65 years and over living below the federal poverty level from 2006 to 2015 in UWSWA coverage area
Essentials
16.8% decrease in number of individuals 16 years of age and over in UWSWA coverage area who are unemployed since 2015
Health
33.4% decrease in teen birth rate for females aged 15-17 in UWSWA coverage area since 2010
Education
19% increase in percentage of students who graduated high school in UWSWA coverage area from 2010 to 2015
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United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer. United Way hires qualified personnel based upon the individual’s skills, ability, experience and achievements. All employment decisions, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, training, layoff or recall are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, or other covered characteristics in accordance with applicable Federal Laws. Any incident that an applicant or employee believes involves discrimination or harassment should be brought to the immediate attention of the Chief Professional Officer or the chair of the UWSWA Human Resources Committee.