United Way and Lehigh Valley Reads celebrated Read Across America and National Reading Month with a full week of events at United Way Community Schools all across the Greater Lehigh Valley.
Lafayette College in Easton has joined forces with Paxinosa Elementary School, a United Way Community School, to support their food pantry needs.
Students at 2 Community Schools in the Allentown School District received hundreds of gifts thanks to Lehigh Valley Labor Council, Capital Blue Cross, TeenWorks™ and partners.
On November 22, students from The Swain School, a private elementary school in Allentown, partnered with local nonprofit, Joyful Giving, to pack necessity bags for fellow community members.
A recent survey reports that nearly 150 early childhood classrooms are closed in the Greater Lehigh Valley and over 92% of programs have a staffing shortage.
On Wednesday, November 2nd, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, in collaboration with Resilient Lehigh Valley and Aevidum, a student-founded suicide awareness organization, held the area’s first-ever Youth Mental Health Summit sponsored by Lehigh County at Artsquest Center’s Musikfest Café.
On Thursday, United Way Community School Coordinators (CSCs) were celebrated at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem during a special event sponsored by Crayola.
UWGLV serves a tri-county area about 60 miles north of Philadelphia that includes Allentown – Pennsylvania’s third-largest city – and Lehigh County, one of the fastest growing counties in the state.
National Coordinators Appreciation Week is September 19-23 and United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) recognizes the vital role of our Community School Coordinators (CSC’s) and celebrates the transformational impact they make throughout their communities.
With students back in their classrooms this school year, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff visited United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) on Thursday for a roundtable discussion with Allentown leaders to highlight how United Way Community Schools provide wraparound support to local children and their families.