By joining a United Way coalition or committee, you can use your time, talent and voice to make a difference in your community.
Using the Collective Impact model, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley is making a long-term investment in deep and meaningful change around large-scale, complex social issues. To achieve population level goals and lasting results, Collective Impact partners must come together to solve a common goal from multiple angles with one organization serving as the“backbone” or lead convenor.
what we do
COLLECTIVE IMPACT PARTNERS
- Focus on a common goal
- Authentically engage in community-led problem solving
- Align on a mix of policy and programmatic interventions
- Agree on how to measure progress
- Continuously communicate, learn and improve
Coalitions
- Age-Friendly Lehigh Valley – Building an inclusive community for people of all ages
- AmeriCorps – Expanding collective impact to address critical concerns
- Bank On Lehigh Valley – Ensuring everyone has access to safe and affordable financial services
- Challenge 5 Attendance Coalition – Keeping students engaged in learning
- Fund for Racial Justice and Equity – Investing in community-led solutions to systemic racism
- Leader in Me – Empowering students, teachers and families to be life-ready learners
- Lehigh Valley Early Childhood Coalition – Increasing school readiness
- Lehigh Valley Freedom Schools Partnership – Empowering youth through summer literacy and cultural enrichment
- Lehigh Valley Reads – Ensuring all students can read on grade level
- Lehigh Valley Regional Homeless Advisory Board – Preventing homelessness
- Lehigh Valley Summer Learning Coalition – Increasing access to high-quality summer learning
- Public Policy and Advocacy Committee – Advocating for a healthy community through legislative change
- Resilient Lehigh Valley – Building resilient youth through trauma-informed communities
- United Way Community Schools Network – Supporting students’ needs and academic success
“United Way assures us that our contribution makes a purposeful impact. The flexibility to direct dollars to causes important to our family is influential to our giving.”
Jarrett and Mandy Laubach
Tocqueville Society Members
In the News
Over 2,300 Volunteers UNITE to Transform the Valley in a Single Day of Service at United Way’s 31st Day of Caring, Presented by Crayola
Volunteers from 60 companies and organizations kick off the 2024 United Way campaign during Lehigh Valley’s largest, single-day volunteer effort.
