Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All

Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

That’s why United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

• Education – Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
• Income – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
• Health – Improving People’s Health

Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.

LIVE UNITED means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.

Mission

The mission of the United Way of Abilene is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the West Central Texas area.

We will do this by actively seeking to leverage the intellectual, organizational, institutional, financial, faith-based and personal resources of our communities as the best means to make positive, measurable and lasting change for the communities we serve.

Vision

United Way of Abilene will focus community resources and partners to leverage services for positive impact on individuals, families and neighborhoods.

Through the collaborative efforts of our entire community, we envision a West Central Texas ...

• where basic human needs are met for all citizens;
• where our students complete high school and are prepared for work or higher education;
• where our senior adults live independently and stay connected;
• where our families are self-sufficient;
• where our neighborhoods are safe and family-friendly.