Our Mission

Our Mission and Vision

United Way of New York City connects people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community characterized by income stability, educational success, and healthy people.

We believe that everyone has a role in building a better future for all. We inspire bold goals, bring together broad coalitions, and make game-changing choices to accelerate progress.

We are community. We Live United!

Our Approach:

• We convene and partner with business, government, and community-based nonprofits to solve problems in a holistic, sustainable way.
   
• We begin by building on strategies that are known to be effective.  To those strategies we add innovations that merit testing.  
   
• We rigorously evaluate our programs, and make course-corrections when necessary.
   
• We work with policy makers to advance citywide changes that support New Yorkers in overcoming poverty and achieving their potential.
   
• We provide technical assistance and leadership development to strengthen the capacity of our nonprofit partners.

Our Core Beliefs:

• We believe poverty must be tackled at its roots.  Quick fixes don't work.
   
• We believe that to fully understand a problem it's important to actively listen to community members who are impacted. 
   
• We believe that everyone has a role to play in creating pathways out of poverty.  We actively seek to engage committed New Yorkers as donors, volunteers and advocates.