Your contribution to United Way helps our community do what matters. Ensuring children start school ready to learn. Supporting families in crisis. Helping people gain the job and life skills necessary to be independent. Working to end homelessness. And much more.

When people give to charity they make an individual or family decision to support a specific organization or cause. The United Way Community Impact Fund is uniquely how metro Atlantans work together to identify our community's top human care issues and then combine resources to address those issues - so that everyone benefits. Here are just a few examples of the Community Impact Fund at work.

	When thousands of metro Atlantans lost their jobs as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and subsequent shutdown of Hartsfield Airport, United Way immediately put $1 million in Community Impact Fund contributions to work for emergency financial assistance and to temper the ripple effects the crisis had on our own community.
	The Community Impact Fund invests $100,000 in Gifts In Kind Atlanta, which last year helped local nonprofits receive more than $3 million in donated office supplies, furniture and other items - for a 30:1 ROI. The dollars those nonprofits saved were better used to help people and strengthen our community.
	The Community Impact Fund invests in United Way 211, which connected nearly 300,000 metro Atlantans to resources when they needed help or wanted to help others in 2002.

See a list of the 240 organizations our United Way supports in metro Atlanta.

Download a specific care form to designate your contribution to -- or away from -- an organization (attach specific care form pdf from the Campaign toolkit)

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