Together, we can…
We are an organization of community volunteers that lead, inspire, and mobilize the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
By expanding opportunity for our youth, strengthening financial stability, improving health, and helping communities respond and recover, we envision a five-county region where every person can thrive
OUR MISSION
Susquehanna Valley United Way mobilizes communities to action so all can thrive. Serving Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, and Union Counties, we focus on four key areas: Healthy Community, Youth Opportunity, Financial Security, and Community Resiliency. Together with our partners and neighbors, we’re building a stronger, more hopeful future for all.
OUR VISION
Susquehanna Valley United Way is an organization of community volunteers that lead, inspire, and mobilizes individuals and contributes to providing solutions to essential health and human services issues to improve the quality of life for people in our counties.
OUR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION POLICY
The United Way recognizes diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values that are critical success factors in achieving United Way’s mission in our communities.
All persons affiliated with and served by both the United Way and its Community Partners shall reflect, without exclusion, the many faces and walks of life that proudly make up our communities with respect to age, race, religion, skin color, gender, nationality, language differences, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, intellectual or developmental disabilities; socioeconomic status, work, and behavioral styles; parental status; and the perspectives of each individual shaped by their nation, culture, and experiences.
To be inclusive is to leverage diversity by bringing together unique individual backgrounds to collectively and more effectively address the issues facing our communities in ways that right injustice, create equity, and celebrate us all.
The United Way recognizes that structural racism, ethnic and cultural discrimination, and other forms of oppression have contributed to racial disparities that have existed in the past and persist in the present. The United Way acknowledges that inequities are the result of policies and practices that work to marginalize entire populations of people. The United Way unequivocally denounces race-based, ethnic, and cultural discrimination because it undermines the well-being and vitality of our communities. The United Way will work with public and private partners to co-create solutions that ensure everyone has the resources, support, opportunities, and networks they need to thrive. The United Way commits to leveraging its assets (e.g., convening, strategic investments, awareness building, advocacy) to create more equitable communities.