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Community Responds to Pandemic with Record-Breaking United Way Campaign
Donors and partners raise $18,151,988 for critical community needs.
Donors and partners raise $18,151,988 for critical community needs.
Contributions fund critical services for students, families and seniors in the Greater Lehigh Valley.
Celebration of Caring, presented by Crayola, will be held virtually on April 15 to recognize and honor donors, volunteers and community partners.
UWGLV’s Senior Director of Finance, Marci Martinez-Howey, has been named Woman of the Year at the upcoming 46th Annual Women & Teens of the Year Awards hosted by YWCA Bethlehem.
Women United is supporting a new pilot program in partnership with Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley and Resilient Lehigh Valley called Trauma informed, Restorative Practices, Emotional Intelligence and Equity (T.R.E.E.) training.
With funding provided by Bill and Denise Spence, the Allentown School District elementary school will benefit from new programming and increased services.
Lehigh Valley Reads Works With StoryCorps and Together for Students to Capture Stories of Lehigh Valley Families During the Covid-19 Crisis. Systemic racial inequities exposed by COVID-19 heighten the need for systems transformation.
TeenWorks Virtual Celebration, presented by Capital BlueCross, announced scholarship winners, honored award recipients and showcased how our union labor community and local teens pulled together throughout 2020 to serve the evolving needs of our community.
Lehigh Valley Reads and United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley celebrate Read Across America Day by distributing books and educational supplies to 4 elementary schools across the region and ramp up the Million Minute Challenge.
Veronica Gonzalez, MBA, is the Executive Director of Valley Health Partners Community Health Center (VHP). She has over 12 years of healthcare administration experience with expertise in process improvement, leadership, fiscal responsibility and community-based program management.