WHY NOT GIVE DIRECTLY TO AGENCIES INSTEAD OF GIVING THROUGH UNITED WAY’S IMPACT FUND?
Each of us wants to improve our hometown and each of us wants to help make progress. But the truth is we can’t do this alone. That’s why United Way is challenging everyone in our community to LIVE UNITED. United Way invites our citizens not to turn away from our big problems, but to join others to make big progress on critical community issues. We invite you to do so by giving to the Impact Fund. To address these issues, United Way’s Impact Fund has brought together the best minds, the best-performing agencies and the resources contributed by tens of thousands of donors. Through the Impact Fund, each of our investors can act on his or her personal ambition to make Allegheny County a better place to live and work by supporting the collective efforts of 62 agencies and hundreds of programs dedicated to impacting critical human needs.