UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey is a Philadelphia-based institutional endowment and foundation with $114 million in assets under management. Founded in 1921, the organization focuses on ending poverty and expanding opportunity within the community support services sector. Its grantmaking strategy funds nonprofit partners and develops solutions across early learning, career pathways, financial empowerment, and community resiliency initiatives. The organization operates a multi-step approach: listening to community voices, leveraging expertise and local market knowledge, building coalitions with government and corporate leaders, measuring and refining strategies, and sharing findings to strengthen sector capacity. Specific initiatives include the 211 Helpline, Camden Community Uplift, Center for Leadership Equity, IDA & Match Savings Program, United We Prepare, and a Violence Prevention Hotline. The organization targets whole-family support, from children's education to adult financial stability, serving a region where more than 650,000 adults and children live in poverty. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to its investment approach, with a stated commitment to becoming an actively anti-racist organization.