Our Work

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 Aloha United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

• Education – Helping Children Achieve Their Potential, Preparing the For Life
  
• Income – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
  
• Health – Improving People’s Health 
  

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.

Aloha 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. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.

What Aloha United Way Does

Aloha United Way works to improve lives, motivate people to help others, increase resources to meet needs and inspire collective solutions to community problems.

Early Childhood Development
Aloha United Way is focused on educating parents and caregivers about the important facets of raising a child during the critical years from birth to age five.

2-1-1
Dial 211 if you are not sure where to obtain a service or how to get help; specialists search a database of over 4,000 government and non-profit services and programs to find the answers you need.

Financial Stability & Independence
Aloha United Way wants working individuals and families to be able to make ends meet.

Homelessness
Aloha United Way is committed to preventing families living paycheck to paycheck from becoming homeless, helping families transition back into housing and planning and developing innovative strategies to reduce homelessness.

Crime & Drugs Use
Ensuring that prevention and treatment programs and appropriate support services are available to people who are at risk for drug addiction and supporting efforts to reduce crime.

Volunteer Hawaii
A service that matches people with volunteer opportunities.

Emergency & Crisis Services
To ensure the most needy in our community have access to their basic human needs.

Gifts-In-Kind
Our gifts-in-kind program matches donated goods and services with agencies to ensure that resources go where they are needed most.

Share Your Story
Have you been helped by Aloha United Way or its partner agencies?  We would like to hear your story.