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Empowering Financial Security

Every family deserves financial stability, not financial stress.

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How United Way Helps

1 in 6 people in our region can’t afford basic necessities. For children, it’s even worse — 1 in 5 live in poverty.

These aren’t just numbers. They’re working adults trapped in low-wage jobs, families choosing between rent and groceries, and people one emergency away from crisis.

When you support United Way, you help people build real financial stability through job training, money management skills, and connections to better opportunities. Your support moves families from surviving to thriving.

Our Impact

In 2023, 89,834 people improved their financial security through United Way-funded community programs and agency partners, including:

  • 7,303 people received help filing their income tax, helping them access benefits and subsidies.
  • 1,522 people received financial literacy training.
  • 1,260 people got help getting and keeping their job employment training.
  • 78,793 people accessed healthy meals or food hampers.

Strategic Initiatives & Programs

Financial Reality Check

Financial Reality Check is two-hour interactive budgeting simulation for high school students where they select careers, create budgets, and navigate real-life financial scenarios with guidance from volunteer financial coaches, designed to build practical money management skills in a risk-free environment.

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Empower U

Empower U is a financial empowerment program that helps participants – with a special focus on women and newcomers – increase their knowledge, tools and access to resources to meet their financial goals.

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Period Promise

Period Promise addresses period poverty in our communities through the distribution of free menstrual products, while also challenging the stigma around menstruation.

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Agency Partners

United Way of the Alberta Capital Region provides Front-Line Agency Funding to 52 community agencies. Of those, the following 23 agencies support educational success:

Action for Healthy Communities logo featuring three overlapping green arrows pointing upward and to the right, symbolizing growth and community development, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
AIWCC logo featuring a stylized green leaf symbolizing growth and community, accompanied by the organization's acronym 'AIWCC' in bold, uppercase letters.
Alberta Parenting for the Future Association logo featuring a stylized green tree with three figures forming the trunk and branches, symbolizing family unity and growth, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Bissell Centre logo featuring a stylized spiral design in white on a blue background, symbolizing community connection and support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
BGC Leduc logo featuring a stylized green figure with outstretched arms, symbolizing youth empowerment and community support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, lowercase letters.
BGC Strathcona County logo featuring two stylized green figures forming an abstract 'X' shape, symbolizing connection and community, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
CEASE logo featuring a stylized design symbolizing hope and transformation, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Centre for Family Literacy logo featuring a stylized figure composed of teardrop-shaped elements in blue, green, and purple, arranged to form a person with outstretched arms, symbolizing growth and learning, centered within a circular design.
e4c Alberta logo featuring the lowercase letters 'e', '4', and 'c' in a modern, sans-serif font, with the '4' stylized to resemble an upward arrow, symbolizing progress and community support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Newcomer Centre logo featuring three stylized maple leaves in purple, teal, and orange, arranged in a dynamic, overlapping formation to the left of the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters, symbolizing diversity, unity, and support for newcomers.
Elizabeth Fry Society of Northern Alberta logo featuring a stylized purple butterfly with open wings, symbolizing transformation and empowerment, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
enCompass Community Safety Agency logo featuring the organization's name in lowercase letters, accompanied by a stylized design symbolizing guidance and community support.
Families First Society logo featuring a stylized heart formed by two interlocking figures in blue and green, symbolizing family unity and support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Islamic Family & Social Services Association logo featuring a stylized eight-pointed star with alternating green and orange petals, symbolizing unity and community support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation logo featuring a stylized purple ribbon forming the shape of a heart, symbolizing remembrance and support for survivors of domestic violence, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
Jewish Family Services Edmonton logo featuring the acronym 'JFS' in bold, uppercase letters, accompanied by a stylized design symbolizing community support and compassion.
Leduc & District Food Bank logo featuring the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters, flanked by two stylized golden wheat stalks, all enclosed within a circular border, symbolizing nourishment and community support.
NeighbourLink Parkland logo featuring the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters, accompanied by a stylized design symbolizing community support and compassion.
NiGiNan Housing Ventures logo featuring the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters, accompanied by a stylized design symbolizing community support and Indigenous cultural heritage.
Project Adult Literacy Society (PALS) logo featuring a stylized open book outlined in purple, with the acronym 'PALS' in bold, uppercase letters centered across the pages, and two circular shapes above the book representing individuals, symbolizing learning, support, and community engagement.
Parkland Food Bank logo featuring a stylized red apple split vertically, with the left half solid red and the right half white displaying three red seeds, symbolizing nourishment and community support, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, red uppercase letters.
Sage Seniors Association logo featuring the organization's name in a clean, modern font, accompanied by a stylized design symbolizing growth, wisdom, and community support.
St. Albert Further Education logo featuring a stylized open book with a red maple leaf above it, symbolizing Canadian identity and lifelong learning, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.
The Learning Centre Literacy Association logo featuring two stylized blue birds in flight above an open brown book with green leaves sprouting from its spine, symbolizing growth, learning, and community support.
YOUCAN Youth Services logo featuring the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters, with a red arc above the 'YOUCAN' text symbolizing support and guidance, accompanied by the tagline 'Our Support. Their Success.' in smaller font below.
YWCA Edmonton logo featuring three open triangles arranged to form a stylized 'Y' shape, symbolizing openness, inclusivity, and the balance of mind, body, and spirit, accompanied by the organization's name in bold, uppercase letters.

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United Way’s Commitment to Reconciliation

We are all Treaty people. United Way acknowledges our connection to one another, here on Treaty 6 Territory and Métis Nation of Alberta North Saskatchewan River Territory. The diverse Indigenous Peoples of this land include the nêhiyawak, Blackfoot, Dene, Anishinaabe, Nakota Sioux, Inuit, and Métis. Many of our staff are settlers living and working in this Territory. We all have a responsibility to uphold the spirit and intent of the original treaties and build relationships, trust, and understanding. We are grateful for the resources, knowledge, and culture Indigenous people share with us as we walk the path towards reconciliation together. We honour and respect Indigenous contributions supporting our work to ensure no one in our community is left behind.

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