What is the United Way Community Impact Fund?
Our Community Impact Fund is the most effective way to create positive impact on the most critical social problems in Rhode Island. Your donation helps support children’s success in school as their pathway out of poverty; increase job skills so adults can better support themselves and their families, and reduce homelessness by building more affordable homes as well as a system to care for chronically homeless people. United Way invests your donation wisely in this work to identify specific problems and develop solutions that have positive results on the lives of people in need. United Way of Rhode Island will invest dollars given to its Community Impact Fund to: • Advocate for public policy that will reduce need. • Educate the public on important social issues. • Increase the capacity of our community to respond to need. • Develop innovative, collaborative solutions to our State’s most pressing problems that target real results. • Fund proven programs that get the desired results. As a
