Strategic Partnerships for Solutions
When you partner with us on our initiatives, you support a strategic system designed to eliminate barriers, expand opportunities, and build long-term financial stability for Greensboro families. Explore our core programs and partnerships and see how they’re changing lives.
Integrated Services Model
We meet people where they are, then help them move forward.
Our Integrated Services Model helps individuals and families access personalized support across housing, employment, education, health, childcare, and more. This model is at the heart of our major initiatives. United Way of Greater Greensboro has helped our local community thrive for over 100 years. We have a pulse on the community’s needs and understand how to work with partners to respond.
Impact Pillars
Addressing Basic Needs
We improve access to nutritious food and quality health education and services, so people have the resources they need to lead healthy lives.
Youth Opportunity
We create pathways for young people to reach their goals, from early childhood education to college and career success.
Financial Security
We connect people to education, tools, and job training so they have financial freedom, peace of mind–and can build a stronger future for their children.
Core Initiative
Family Success Centers
In these family-friendly centers in south and east Greensboro, Success Coaches help residents living on low incomes create and pursue goal plans to get from where they are to where they want to be – in a practical, personalized sequence and timeline. Through partnerships, services from four main areas are integrated and made accessible on-site to serve the whole household.
Program Areas Include:
- Education
- Employment
- Financial Capability
- Health & Wellness
Family Success Centers are based on national strategies but uniquely tailored to meet Greensboro’s needs. Partners include Guilford Technical Community College, Cone Health, and others.
Core Initiative
Guilford Success Network (GSN)
Guilford Success Network is a mobile-friendly service that connects residents to Coordinators who help them identify, plan, and achieve their personal goals. Anchored by coaching, the service supports long-term financial stability by helping residents:
- Stabilize basic needs
- Learn skills and land jobs
- Build momentum over time
Residents work with a Coordinator to chart a personalized roadmap to success, on their own timeline.
Core Initiative
NC 2-1-1 Helpline
A vital human service with 24/7 access to information and referrals, connecting people with local resources–from housing and food, to mental health and utilities. The helpline tracks data that identifies big-picture issues and the greatest needs for our community. This data is shared live on the www.nc211.org website.
- 9-1-1 is for emergencies, 4-1-1 is for directory assistance, and 2-1-1 is for community health and human services.
- All calls are free, confidential and answered by trained specialists.
- The helpline is multilingual, ensuring that all members of the community can receive help
Core Initiative
Mentoring Matters
The Mentoring Matters initiative pairs elementary, middle and high school aged youth with trained adult mentors. Mentors help keep students in school, improve their self-esteem, and pursue career and life goals. Through this initiative, hundreds of students are seeing their potential realized as they build their lives alongside adults who care.
- Multiple mentoring sites across the city, partnering with school systems.
- Targeted to increase graduation and job-readiness rates.
- Implements innovative mentoring strategies, training, and cultural sensitivity.
Meet Frankie
How Mentoring Matters Changed Everything
Hi, I’m Frankie! I’m the mother of 5 young men who went through the Mentoring Matters program. I moved here from California as a single mother. I was making minimum wage, struggling, and the program was offered to me through the school…
Core Initiative
Thriving at 3
An early childhood initiative using evidence-based curricula to support healthy development for children ages 0–3 through parenting education, development screenings, and case management care. We stand with parents to support them in their role as their child’s first and most important teacher. The effects are long-lasting, increasing both school readiness and later achievements.
- Empowers parents and caregivers from birth onward.
- Partners with local schools to build early literacy and school-readiness.
- A licensed partner of National Raising A Reader engagement and literacy programs.
Core Initiative
Nonprofit Grants & Resilience Funding
As part of our Community Resilience pillar, United Way supports and funds programs that respond to urgent needs such as food insecurity, eviction, utilities, and natural disasters. We channel this funding through nonprofit partners who meet both poverty-relieving and poverty-ending needs.
- Channeled grant funding for programs offered by strategic nonprofit partners.
- Flexible support based on real-time data tracking.
- A licensed partner of National Raising A Reader engagement and literacy programs.
By the numbers
All Funded Efforts are Tracked for Measurable Success
740
Households were served at our Family Success Centers
1,208
Youths receiving mentorship and supportive care.
8,290
Individuals took steps towards financial independence.
Become a Poverty Disruptor
Your partnership empowers these initiatives.
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Use your time and talents to support neighbors working toward stability.
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Raise awareness and champion solutions that help our community thrive.
