Advocate

Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All

Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

That’s why United Way of Santa Cruz County’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

• Youth – Helping Children and Youth Succeed in School and in Life
  
• Financial Stability – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence for our Families
  
• Health – Achieving Good Health for All
  

Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.

United Way’s goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future.

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