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United Way of the Alberta Capital Region works collaboratively across the social services sector, identifying pressing community needs and implementing the most impactful solutions. Partner with us and join a movement of changemakers, united by a common social purpose and a shared vision for our community.
“United Way’s outcomes and values align with Families First, making for a beautiful partnership. Through United Way, we not only receive funding but also opportunities to collaborate with other agencies, share our agency story, and access different training. When you are supported with United Way funds, you are supported by your own community members.” Fort Saskatchewan Families First Society
“United Way’s outcomes and values align with Families First, making for a beautiful partnership. Through United Way, we not only receive funding but also opportunities to collaborate with other agencies, share our agency story, and access different training. When you are supported with United Way funds, you are supported by your own community members.”
With United Way, it’s all about purposeful investment. As a significant non-government contributor in social services, we drive change by working alongside frontline agency partners and social sector experts. Our approach is simple: by the community, with the community, and for the community.
For the 2024-2027 funding cycle, United Way of the Alberta Capital Region has adjusted how we provide funding to our partners by offering front-line agency funding instead of program-specific funding, as well as social sector development grants to support specific capacity-building efforts.
United Way’s approach ensures contributions and resources are used effectively to respond to the complex issues in the community, while improving collaboration and amplifying our impact.
Over the past few years, our social landscape has undergone rapid changes, marked by emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme weather events. In times of crisis and emergencies, United Way mobilizes quickly to support our funded partners’ needs.
Agencies must be responsive and adaptable in the face of emerging needs. With front-line agency funding, our partners can better meet the complex needs of people in our community by allocating resources where they are most needed, or as situations change rapidly.
Investing in the social sector ensures that local non-profit organizations have the tools, knowledge, and resources to maximize the impact of their work. Sector Development Grants complement front-line services by making them more efficient, impactful, and sustainable.
Together, we can improve the social sector through innovation and collective impact.
Our Front-Line Agency Funding supports 57 social service organizations that provide direct, front-line services that align with one or more of United Way’s priority areas:
List updated August 2024. Next update is scheduled for 2027.
ABC Head Start Society
Aboriginal Counseling Services Association of Alberta
Action for Healthy Communities Society of Alberta
Africa Centre (The Council for Advancement of African Canadians in Alberta)
Alberta Immigrant Women & Children Centre
Alberta Parenting for the Future Association
Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society
Bissell Centre
Boys and Girls Club of Leduc
Boys and Girls Club of Strathcona County
Boys and Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton and Area Society
BriarPatch Family Life Education Centre
Canadian Mental Health Association – Edmonton Region
CEASE: Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation
Centre for Family Literacy Society of Alberta
e4c
Edmonton Aboriginal Seniors Centre
Edmonton John Howard Society
Edmonton Native Healing Centre Society
Edmonton Newcomer Centre
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Northern Alberta
The Family Centre of Northern Alberta
Fort Saskatchewan Boys and Girls Club
Fort Saskatchewan Families First Society
Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society
Islamic Family & Social Services Association
Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation
Jewish Family Services
KARA Family Resource Centre
The Learning Centre Literacy Association
Leduc & District Food Bank
Métis Child & Family Services Society
Multicultural Family Resource Society
Neighbourlink Parkland
NiGiNan Housing Ventures
Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre
P.A.L.S.-Project Adult Literacy Society
Parkland Food Bank Society
The Pride Centre of Edmonton
Riseup Society Alberta
Saffron Centre Ltd.
A Safe Place (Strathcona Shelter Society)
Sage Seniors Association
Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (SACE)
St. Albert Family Resource Centre
Star Literacy Program
Stop Abuse in Families (SAiF) Society
Terra Centre for Teen Parents
The Today Family Violence Help Centre
YESS (Youth Empowerment and Support Services)
YOUCAN! (Youth Canada Association)
YWCA Edmonton
United Way is committed to enhancing the strength and capacity of the social services sector to address the diverse and evolving needs of our communities.
Social Sector Development Grants support projects that promote sector capacity building through supporting the sector to Indigenize (open to Indigenous-led organizations only), fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), supporting the sector in research and evaluation, providing anchor agency support to enhance grassroots capacity.
Alberta Immigrant Women and Children Centre (AIWCC)
Sustaining the Implementation of Social Sector EDI Leadership Practices
Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations
EDI Support
Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council
Empowered Equity Collective
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Social Sector Support
Native Counselling Services of Alberta
Nisohkamatowin (The Act of Helping One Another)
NiGiNan’s Indigenous Centre for Excellence (NICE)
Skillcity Institute
Building Equity-Informed Support Systems for Neurodiverse Children and Youth
Learn more about our funding criteria, our decision-making process, and the current funding opportunities.
