Programs Supported

Now, more than ever, your support of United Way makes a major difference in our community!

Through your donation, United Way helps your friends and neighbors most in need of assistance. It helps those people right here at home to improve their lives. Through direct support of a vast array of programs and services that benefit Broome County residents from every walk of life, United Way makes it possible for just one person to make a difference. Most of the funds donated to United Way support health and human services programs at United Way's 29 local partner agencies. 

Donations also support Venture and Special Assistance Grants each year, funds for United Way’s five direct service programs, and donor-designated funds to non-member agencies. All together, United Way of Broome County supports more than 100 programs and services that assist community residents in six areas of community service (click on a link below to obtain more information about the programs in each area).  

These programs reach hundreds of your neighbors every day. United Way funded programs provided assistance to local people more than 190,000 times last year. Most people receive support from United Way some time during their lives. A United Way funded program may assist you during the coming year.  

Click on each action area listed below to learn more about the programs United Way funds in Broome County!* (These links will be operational when the 2010 allocations process in completed. In the meantime, you can find the programs that were funded for 2009 by clicking on the information for each partner agency here or the listing of programs funded by area of service, which is linked at the bottom of this page.)

Eight Action Areas

Quality Early Child Care

Youth Mental Health

Chemical Dependency Prevention

Physical Fitness and Wellness

Health Access

Service Access for Elders

Safety Net / Basic Needs

Community Needs

* Some programs were renamed, revised, or reorganized in 2009. The eight action areas listed above and the revised programs will be funded beginning in 2010 from funds pledged to United Way during 2009 and thereafter.

Donations allocated to United Way's agencies in 2009 (in six areas of community service)

Updated: August 5, 2009