This year marks 100 years since United Way for Greater Austin began making a difference in the community. Together with our neighbors, elected officials, nonprofits, subject matter experts, foundations, and community leaders, we are creating a future where every child is set up for success and everyone is connected to the essential resources they need, when they need them.
Last year alone
- We answered 400,000+ requests for basic resources via phone and online.
- We served 60,269 local children and individuals with access to life-changing resources.
- We supported 13,000+ children under 6 from households with low income with access to early learning services.
- We provided 3,577 families with multi-generational support to care for children while also advancing their own education.
- We visited 1,000+ families with newborns with home visits through our Family Connects program.
Grassroots Advocacy for Lasting Change
Affordable Childcare NOW!
This year, we formed the Affordable Childcare NOW! Coalition to support a Travis County ballot initiative that would provide affordable, quality early child care and education for 8,000 children. If passed, this resolution would expand access to care, support working families, provide better pay to early child care staff, and offer enhanced resources for children across Travis County.
What’s Next
Pease Elementary & Revolutionizing Early Child Care
United Way is preparing to move into a new permanent home at the historic Pease Elementary School. This home will serve as a beacon for an equitable community that supports healthy and vibrant opportunities for all.
The 35,000-square-foot facility will be reinvigorated as home to United Way’s new office and a service-delivery center that offers:
- A dynamic learning center for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years, operated in partnership with Goodwill Central Texas
- An Early Education Learning Advancement Center that will serve as a key resource for the Central Texas early childhood centers and workforces
- A Family Support Center that provides wrap-around services to families and the early childhood workforce that attend and work for the Pease-based learning center
- A state-of-the art data hub that provides real-time information for those interacting with and leading the early childhood sector
- A 24/7 Navigation Center offering access to thousands of basic resources
Building a Thriving Community
Join us to create powerful change in Central Texas, meeting the immediate needs of today while building a brighter future for tomorrow.