Creating opportunities Together
Our mission is to connect our community with resources to reduce poverty and improve lives. We envision a community where everyone has the tools and opportunity to thrive.
True to our founding spirit, whenever there is a need in our communities, United Way of the River Cities is there. We bring a comprehensive approach to every challenge, actively listening and responding to local needs.
We address the community’s most pressing needs in four impact areas, healthy community, youth opportunity, financial security, and community resilience.
Together, we’re helping mobilizing communities to action by convening coalitions, funding nonprofit partners and internal initiatives, and by measuring results.
When you donate to United Way of the River Cities, you join fellow donors, corporate sponsors, volunteers, community organizations and advocates to help build stronger, more resilient communities.
Our Service Area
United Way of the River Cities is a nonpartisan organization focused on communities. Bridging divides and bringing our communities together to solve our most pressing needs is at the core of what we do at United Way.
United Way of the River Cities serves communities such as Huntington and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Ironton, Ohio:
- Cabell County, WV
- Lincoln County, WV
- Mason County, WV
- Wayne County, WV
- Gallia County, OH
- Lawrence County, OH
A grant process supports the selected agency programs that address the identified critical issues. Learn more about our Funds Distribution process. To ensure that programs are achieving their predicted outcomes and having the expected impact, agencies report semi-annually on their progress, and community volunteers also conduct site visits.
United Way of the River Cities impacts our community by focusing our work on its most critical problems. Volunteers and local experts regularly review relevant data, so that we remain responsive to the biggest challenges our community faces.