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Tag: Financial Stability
A Better Tomorrow Starts with Thanking You
As we look ahead, we see more of the same challenges and undoubtedly many new...
Basic Needs, Community Impact, Diversity & Inclusion, Financial Stability, Social IsolationThe Tomorrow Fund: creating a better tomorrow, today
With inflation continuing to impact household budgets and mental health and social isolation concerns on...
Basic Needs, Community Impact, Financial Stability, Intergenerational TraumaThe big shift: Systemic change for a future of prosperity
In this second installment of a multi-part series, United Way of Calgary and Area continues...
Basic Needs, Diversity & Inclusion, Financial Stability, PovertyBeyond bank balances: Examining Calgary’s inflation crisis
If you scan any headline these days, the story of rising global prices is not...
Basic Needs, Financial Stability, PovertyInternational Women’s Day: Working to #BreakTheBias
This International Women's Day, our Women United group is hosting a free virtual panel featuring...
Basic Needs, Community Impact, Diversity & Inclusion, Domestic Violence, Financial Stability, Mental HealthCelebrate National Philanthropy Day: Here’s to YOU Calgary!
Today marks National Philanthropy Day 2021, a special day set aside to recognize and celebrate...
#DoLocalGood, Community Impact, Financial Stability5 Ways Giving Is Good for You!
The act of giving isn’t just good for our communities, but how giving brings us...
Community Impact, Financial Stability, Mental HealthDirect Energy emergency fund helps Alberta families
The Direct Energy Emergency Fund connects Albertans in crisis to emergency grants and access to...
Basic Needs, Financial Stability, PovertyArt students create poverty videos
We know that 1 in 10 Calgarians live in poverty, but this isn’t always easy...
#DoLocalGood, Basic Needs, Financial Stability, PovertyMasking poverty: exploring social stigma
For many people living in Calgary and the surrounding area, the struggle of making ends...
Basic Needs, Employment Opportunities, Financial StabilityUnited Way partners with Pantone® Color Institute™ to create custom #UNIGNORABLE colour
United Way partnered with the Pantone® Color Institute™ to create #UNIGNORABLE – a colour developed specifically to highlight...
Basic Needs, Domestic Violence, Financial Stability, Mental Health, PovertyIn the spirit of our journey to promote reconciliation, we would like to honour the truth of our shared history and acknowledge Treaty 7 territory and the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, that includes the Kainai, Siksika, and Piikani First Nations. We acknowledge the traditional lands of the Tsuut'ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations. We would also like to recognize the Métis people and the Inuit people who have made their home here in Moh'kins'tsis, also known as Calgary.