Day 45- United Way

Today I took United Way's Pledge (http://www.liveunited.org/) to join one million volunteer readers, tutors and mentors.  I plan on contacting http://www.childrenspeacecenter.org/ to apply as a Peace Educator.  There are so many opportunities, please take the pledge, and let me know which opportunity you will pursue!

Our Mission

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

Our Goals

In 2008, United Way initiated a 10-year program designed to achieve the following goals by 2018:

• Improve education, and cut the number of high school dropouts — 1.2 million students, every year — in half.
• Help people achieve financial stability, and get 1.9 million working families — half the number of lower-income families who are financially unstable — on the road to economic independence.
• Promote healthy lives, and increase by one-third the number of youth and adults who are healthy and avoid risky behaviors.

Our goals are ambitious, but with your help, and by utilizing our core strengths — a national network, committed partners and public engagement capacity — we can achieve them.