Together We’re Ensuring Everyone in Lane County Can Thrive: United Way's 2024-25 Annual Report
Let’s celebrate! We are so proud to share our 2024-2025 Annual Report, highlighting the exciting array of local community investments, activities, and impacts we’ve made together over the course of the last fiscal year.
Specific impacts highlighted in thIS YEAR’s report include:
Through our work, as well as the Early Childhood Hub of Lane County (for which we serve as the backbone agency), we were able to invest over six million dollars, and thousands of volunteer hours, into Lane County communities and agencies from 2024-2025.
Our coordination of Project DASH with 11 local partner agencies in five cities resulted in 6,890 orders delivered to local households, including food boxes, pet food, educational supplies, diapers, and more.
With support of a Community Transformation Grant, the School Food Security Coalition expanded access to food for students in local schools, including distributing 11,000 pounds of food through their Churchill High School food pantry and creating a School Based Food Assistance Program toolkit to make it easier for schools and communities to build school-based food pantries of their own.
Another recipient of a Community Transformation Grant, Greatness Rediscovered in Our Time (GRIOT) reported creating new opportunities for culturally relevant prevention and intervention for local African American male-identified students, reporting more youth and families served (including 300 students participating in mentorship activities) and lower dropout rates (below 20% of the national average for African American male community college students) among youth who have participated in their programs and activities.
Through our annual BookFest event, United Way of Lane County distributed more than 8,200 books to over 1,600 children in Lane County – across 14 schools in nine school districts – helping thousands of local children build their home libraries and keep their reading skills sharp over the summer months.
“Things are challenging right now for so many folks across our communities but what gives me hope is how people in Lane County show up for each other. During our last fiscal year, United Way of Lane County had a huge impact on families and households across Lane County – from investing donor-funded grants into local organizations, both those that provide immediate support to people in need and coalitions identifying long-term solutions to big problems, to getting books into the hands of young readers. Thanks to the support of our local community - donors, supporters, volunteers, sponsors, and partners - we have hope for our shared future. Together, we are working to ensure that everyone in Lane County can thrive. ”
Our 2024-2025 Annual Report also shares a list of community agencies who received funding from United Way and the Early Childhood Hub from 2024-2025, including some key measurements of impact these investments created to support local families, as well as information on how we’re seeking to support ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) households across the county.
You can read and download our full report here!