Community School Coordinators connect families, educators and partners to ensure students arrive ready to learn. During National Coordinators Appreciation Week, we celebrate the work they do every day to strengthen schools and communities.
New partner spotlight: The Kindness Project provides local youth in foster care with essentials and enrichment. In 2024 alone, they supported over 1,200 children with clothing, school supplies, birthday gifts and trauma-informed programs.
New Partner Spotlight: Red Door Early Learning Center nurtures creativity, mindfulness and school readiness in children ages 3 to 6, supporting United Way’s goal to help every student thrive.
In response to a call across the Greater Lehigh Valley network, United Way launched a Family Engagement Series focused on building stronger school-family partnerships to help every child thrive academically, socially and emotionally.
Funds raised in this campaign, chaired by Chris Martin and Martin Guitar, impacts over 200,000 people through Education, Healthy Aging and Community Stability.
This Read Across America Week, United Way Community Schools are celebrating the power of reading—helping students grow, imagine and succeed.
United Way’s Talk Read Sing campaign promotes early literacy by creating welcoming spaces for families to engage in learning. With nine transformed spaces across the region, including a new one at Boys & Girls Club of Allentown, the initiative has helped over 12,000 children grow and thrive.
HNL Lab Medicine becomes corporate partner with ASD’s South Mountain Middle School to provide funding for staffing and resources to meet students’ and families’ basic needs, increase school attendance and improve engagement.
Students enrolled in United Way Community Schools showed academic growth across all schools during the 2023-24 academic year, as highlighted in the organization’s 2024 annual report.
Photo Gallery: Students at Roosevelt Elementary School receive hundreds of gifts thanks to Lehigh Valley Labor Council, Capital Blue Cross, TeenWorks™ and partners.