Advancing the Common Good - Our Work
Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.
That’s why United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:
- Education – Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
- Income – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
- Health – Improving People’s Health
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.
United Way’s goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. We work to address this change in two ways: providing community resources and running direct support programs.
Community Resources
Where do we go in times of need? How do we best help our friends and neighbors? These compiled resources help you answer these tough questions:
- Local Community Resource Card
- Food Resources in the Shawano Area
- 211 Wisconsin
- ALICE Data Information
In addition to these, we provide funding and other resources to nonprofits working in the areas of education, income, and health throughout Shawano and Menominee Counties. You can read about our process and who we funded most recently here: Agency Funding in 2025 from the Shawano Area United Way | Shawano Area United Way
Programs
Our United Way also runs several programs centered around helping ALICE families and improving the Shawano Area. Read more about each by clicking on their link: