About Us

The Franklin-Grand Isle United Way is a community-based organization mobilizing local businesses and individuals to engage at the local level addressing issues, strategies and actions for solutions to ensure a high quality of life.

We envision a community where all individuals and families are able to achieve their greatest potential through education, income stability and healthy lives.

To advance the common good and mobilize the caring power of communities, we will:

• Ignite a social movement, and thereby mobilize community members to action — to give, advocate and volunteer to improve the conditions in which they live.
• Galvanize and connect all sectors of society — individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and governments — to create long-term social change that produces healthy, well-educated and financially-stable individuals and families.
• Raise, invest and leverage hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in philanthropic con tributions to create and support innovative programs and approaches to generate sustained impact in local communities.
• Hold ourselves accountable to this cause through our steadfast commitment to continually measure — in real terms — improvements in education, income and health.