How Can I Help?

Get Involved In Your Community

Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in appreciation for the gift of your time and expertise.

Volunteering can help you:

• Make important networking contacts
• Learn or develop skills       
  
• Enhance your resume
  
• Gain work experience
  
• Build self-esteem and self-confidence
  
• Meet new people
  
• Feel needed and valued
  
• Express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization
  
• Make a difference in someone’s life
  
• Improves the likelihood that children will volunteer as an adult
  

Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us.  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. To learn more about volunteering in our community, fill out a Volunteer Application, view our list of Volunteer Opportunities, if you are a teen ages 13-18 check out our Teen Volunteer Opportunities, or  Click Here to email UWGK with your volunteer inquiry.