News & Updates

Published in the Akron Beacon Journal and on Ohio.com By Colette Jenkins Beacon Journal staff writer United Way of Summit County is on a mission to help donors follow the dollars that they...

 United Way today announced a strategic shift in how it will invest donor dollars to achieve the organization’s objectives within its Income Impact Area. The shift in strategy is intended to speed...

On September 13, a big yellow school bus pulled into Lock 3 in downtown Akron during the Global Village Festival of Greater Akron. United Way’s second annual Stuff the Bus community engagement event...

Published in the Akron Beacon Journal and on Ohio.com By Betty Lin-Fisher Beacon Journal business writer A program to recruit and train minority leaders to serve on nonprofit boards was rolled out...

A little more than a year ago, Ashok Babu Kolla moved to Summit County from California to work for GOJO Industries as a SAP Center of Excellence/ VISTEX Consultant. He was looking for a way to become...

For several days in August, United Way’s Arts2Youth pilot program brought kids together with local artists to combat summer learning loss, otherwise known as "summer slide." Artists worked with kids...