United Way Suncoast Inc.

Early Learning: Ages 0-12
Goals: Ensure that children enter kindergarten ready to learn and that they are reading on grade level by 3rd grade by eliminating barriers that prevent them from surpassing key readiness and early grade reading benchmarks.

Youth Success: Ages 13-18
Goals: Ensure youth have college and career readiness skills to achieve on-time graduation and post-secondary success.

Financial Stability: Ages 18+
Goals: Ensure adults achieve financial stability by obtaining and keeping employment with family-sustaining wages, having access to programs that help them build and maintain assets and reduce barriers to workforce and asset development.

United Way Suncoast (UWS) assumes the role best suited for our strengths:

For some programs, UWS provides leadership and staffing to organize resources and serve as a bridge between strategic community partners.

For other programs, UWS provides support by funding partners to deliver needed services.

And, when necessary, UWS provides the services ourselves.

In all work, UWS aligns efforts and funding to create the greatest, most effective impact for the community, especially the ALICE population.

United Way Suncoast (UWS) solves issues using an integrated approach. Our work addresses interconnected issues— early learning, financial stability, youth success — and works to solve community-identified problems through collaborative networks and learning communities.

United Way Suncoast knows the people, politics and players and how to best coordinate them. Our work is local and embedded in the neighborhoods where our services are needed most.

We advocate at the federal, state and municipal level for the appropriate funding and policies that support stronger neighborhoods through the use of donors, community, and volunteers as decision makers.

We maintain a collaborative and transparent process for accountability and results and utilize a measurement framework that holds the organization and its funded partners accountable.

UWS has the scale to drive maximum impact. With nearly 100 years of experience, our organization has the expertise, partnerships and vision to impact the challenges that we face as a city and individual communities across the five-county region that we serve.

United Way Suncoast has committed $18 million to support 100 programs across our five county region from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025, supporting our strategic plan initiatives ensuring quality early learning for children, foundational futures for youth and long term financial stability for families.

2022 EARLY LEARNING:
• The work of our UWS-led and investment partner programs reached over 98,000 students, their
caregivers, and their teachers.
• 2,214 school aged children reached a target of reading on their appropriate grade level or making
significant progress.
• 36 percent of United We Learn Manatee students made above average growth in reading level over one year.
• 728 additional tutoring hours provided to children across programs; 897 professional development
hours provided to teachers.

2022 YOUTH SUCCESS
• UWS and partner led programs worked with over 8,000 youth, measuring over 5,000 who increased
their proficiency in essential skills including communication, leadership and social-emotional intelligence.
• 740 students acquired specific training and marketable skills for developing career pathways.
• Operation Graduate: 18 active students showing academic growth, with 189 students total receiving
services as needed throughout the year.

2022 FINANCIAL STABILITY
• $10.9 million in refunds given back into the community through VITA returns.
• Financial coaching provided 212 coaching sessions this year, and over 1,100 people opened Bank On
checking accounts or were referred to the program.
• 2,183 individuals received workforce training or job seeking skills. 1,891 individuals were placed in jobs
with 743 retaining that job after six months.
• 2,153 people assisted with housing navigation and direct assistance through the RISE Eviction Cohort.

2022 SUPPORT SERVICES AND NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTERS
• Our Neighborhood Centers received a total of 3,496 visits, serving 1,189 people.
• 299 families receiving legal supports or attended legal education workshops.
• Case management support benefitted over 400 individuals, 75 percent showed progress toward self-sufficiency
and reduced stress.
• 109 individuals participated in Phlebotomy & CNA workforce classes. 100 percent of phlebotomy students
passed the state licensing exam.