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About United Way of the Bluegrass

United Way of the Bluegrass is a local nonprofit organization working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health. These are the building blocks for a good life – a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement and good health.

United Way exists for one reason: to help us come together as a community to identify and address the issues that take all of us working together to solve. Issues like making sure children enter school ready to learn and that all people have access to primary health care, cross lines of race, gender, geography, faith and economic status and can only be addressed with a collective community focus and action.
In our community, United Way is a leading organization that, with the help of countless volunteers and community leaders, identifies the most pressing issues in our community, identifies solutions to the root-causes of these issues, and brings together the resources to make this change.
United Way has a far reach in bringing together various stakeholders and problem solvers.

United Way unites people from throughout the community to work together to identify and address the issues that matter most, change conditions and improve lives.
It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future.
Together, we can accomplish more that any single group can on its own.
Give - Invest in your community.
Advocate - Champion the cause.
Volunteer - Give your time.
Living united means being part of the change.

We assess community needs to mobilize efforts to address issues in education, income and health. We invest resources in the community through partnering with nonprofit organizations throughout our nine-county service area to build holistic solutions to solve complex and long-term issues. We work to strengthen everyday systems for those who need help today while also looking down the road to the future so fewer people will need help tomorrow.

United Way supports more than 140 programs throughout Central Kentucky that help people every day. To help connect people with the help they need, United Way operates United Way 2-1-1, which makes free, confidential referrals to organizations that can help with counseling, job training, emergency assistance and other needs.

They do not. Each one of the 1,100 United Ways in the country is autonomous and managed by local volunteers. In Central Kentucky, hundreds of volunteer leaders from all walks of life are involved in and oversee every detail of United Way operations, from fundraising to investments to financial management.

United Way of the Bluegrass has detailed and rigorous internal controls with regard to our spending and expenses. These internal controls are monitored by the organization’s finance and audit committees on a regular basis. Our board continually monitors all aspects of our governance process. Additionally, we regularly conduct third-party external audits and adhere to strict fiscal and governance controls.