Community Impact

Advancing the Common Good: Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All In North Central Massachusetts

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

Education – Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
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.

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.

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Service By Town Because of the generous support of the community, United Way delivered services to tens of thousands of individuals in our 19 communities.
Ashburnham	930
Ashby	2,021
Ayer	4,663
Baldwinville/Otter River	156
Barre	300
Devens	744
E. Templeton	194
Fitchburg	29,498
Gardner	12,602
Groton	1,409
Harvard	919
Hubbardston	481
Leominster	29,895
Littleton	1,278
Lunenburg	1,866
Otter River	357
Pepperell	1,483
Shirley	3,442
Templeton	1,058
Townsend	2,395
W. Groton	5
W. Townsend	284
Westminster	2,540
Winchendon	2,236
Winchendon Springs	19
Numbers represent units of service delivered.