Who Are We

There is a “new” United Way in Tampa Bay and one very different than the one your parents and grandparents knew. This visionary organization is creating programs designed to make lasting and positive change in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties with a strategic focus on education, income, neighborhoods and safety net services to people in need.

United Way of Tampa Bay has evolved from our traditional fundraising role to that of a strategic community impact organization. We have retooled our work to create lasting change through our Community Impact Agenda. To create real and lasting change requires a strategy that does not react with short-term fixes. Rather, United Way now approaches critical regional issues with long-term, solution-oriented thinking and action. Our Impact Agenda focuses on four areas:
  • Caring to Help Children & Youth Achieve Their Potential
  • Caring to Assist Individuals & Families to Achieve Financial Stability
  • Caring to Create Vibrant Neighborhoods
  • Caring to Support a Safety Net of Services

Guided by citizen volunteers, United Way is all about community leadership. We design, organize and manage social programs resolved to finding solutions to regional issues. Bay Area leaders – both corporate and civic – direct our mission “to improve lives and create lasting community change by mobilizing the caring people of Tampa Bay.”

Our commitment to Tampa Bay is to stay focused on our Community Impact Agenda, to leverage all the resources we can to multiply the return on donor investment and to continue to support programs that achieve the strategic results needed for the people of our region.

When you reach out a hand to one, you influence the condition of all.

United Way Highlights and Achievements
United Way Highlights and Achievements
  • 31,500+ kids received United Way-assisted child care
  • More than 2,100 children attended preschool programs.
  • 85,000 books collected for area children.
  • 17,155 kids participated in out-of-school time programs.
  • 20,000+ Tampa Bay kids received one-to-one mentoring.
  • Nearly 30,000 children and youth participated in development programs.
  • 44 percent of Summer Care families received United Way assisted tax preparation.
  • 62, 821 individuals received financial stability guidance and education.
  • 11,500 tax returns prepared with United Way assistance in Hillsborough and Pinellas.
  • 3,900+ Earned Income Tax Credits were prepared.
  • 400 families received loans throughout Pinellas County.
  • $11.8 million was returned to low- and moderate-income working families.
  • 300,612 families received help with food and shelter.
  • 9,801 seniors received assistance and guidance.
  • 70,632 hungry individuals received food assistance.
  • 14,800 pounds of food helped our STOP HOMETOWN HUNGER partners.
  • More than 154,000 telephone calls were received by 2-1-1 providers.
  • Provided more than 23,000 hours of volunteer service from approximately 3,300 individual participants in the HandsOn Tampa Bay program.