United Way donates $50,000 to open homeless overflow shelters
Donation will keep overflow shelters open throughout the season. Read more.

United Way Raises Record $51.6 million
Thanks to the generous support of the community, United Way surpassed its 2012 goal and raised $51.6 million. Read more.

Give & Win Sweepstakes Winners Announced
Four United Way supporters helped the community and walked away winners in the 2012 Give & Win Sweepstakes. Read more.

United Way supports Hurricane Relief
United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s Executive Committee voted Oct. 30, 2012 to make an immediate $25,000 grant to the American Red Cross of Southeastern Wisconsin, funding which will help them to deploy local volunteers to the east coast to help in the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The grant comes from United Way’s Urgent Need Fund, an emergency resource which allows United Way to provide critical resources to local agencies to quickly respond to urgent community needs. The Urgent Need Fund grant awarded to the local Red Cross is in addition to the 2012-13 allocation of $787,000 from United Way of Greater Milwaukee for local Red Cross relief efforts.

How You Can Help Hurricane Effort
United Way of New York City, United Ways along the Eastern Seaboard have established the United Way Hurricane Sandy Recovery Fund to address near-term and long-term recovery needs of communities most affected by the hurricane.  Those interested in helping with this effort you can visit www.UWSandyRecovery.org or text RECOVERY to 52000 to make a $10 donation.