Category: Our impact

  • United Way of Greater Atlanta volunteer wrapping gifts for those in need

    December 28, 2025
    Our 2025 Year in Review is here! From thousands of youth gaining career skills to families finding stable housing, every…
  • Students play educational activities—the Georgia full-day Pre-K program that we know today is a direct result of GEEARS’s advocacy.

    September 19, 2025
    15 years ago, United Way of Greater Atlanta helped launch GEEARS: Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students, elevating our…
  • Judges decide which organizations show most promise at United Way of Greater Atlanta’s 2022 SPARK Prize in Gwinnett County.

    June 10, 2025
    Since 2015, United Way of Greater Atlanta’s SPARK Prize has given local changemakers a chance to pitch their bold ideas…
  • June 4, 2025
    Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Ann Stallard, and Anne Kaiser held a basement meeting that would inspire a movement of 55,000+…
  • Teneka Williams, founder of Royal Petals ATL, and 14 other Greater Atlanta small business owners attend a cohort meeting of United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Building Resilient Entrepreneurs Program

    May 13, 2025
    Women-owned and minority-owned small businesses in Atlanta face inequitable barriers to growth in the years since the pandemic. United Way…
  • Ten Forest Park residents pose at a monthly grantmaking meeting to decide how to invest in their local community

    May 6, 2025
    If you had $20,000 to invest in your community, how would you spend it? In Forest Park, we’re giving local…
  • Leah McLaurin speaks at a CareerReady ATL event, highlighting how apprenticeship opportunities can be life-changing for Atlanta youth.

    March 31, 2025
    Leah McLaurin’s journey from youth apprenticeship to full time job demonstrates the promise of one of Atlanta’s untapped workforces –…
  • March 25, 2025
    What would you do to transform our community if you had more time to do it? While we can’t add…
  • October 23, 2024
    Mary, a single mother of two boys aged 10 and 4, faced significant housing instability after being evicted in 2018.…
  • September 30, 2024
    Amani, a single mother with a 5-year-old daughter, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia in 2023 to escape an unhealthy relationship.…

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