United Way Of Racine County Inc

Full service community school: fscs is a national program to provide support to improve educational outcomes for children.

Community impact: united way transforms the community by initiating and facilitating systems-wide projects around education, financial stability and health, such as schools of hope, imagination library, vita and lift. Additionally, united way is working to increase knowledge of the importance of early childhood learning with a public awareness campaign. United way engages in the community in a number of ways. United way is seeking to learn the aspirations, hopes and concerns of community members through a series of targeted community conversations with diverse segments of the local community. Also, united way stays abreast of community issues by researching and publishing a biennial community indicators report that includes current data on community conditions. The report is shared broadly with united ways stakeholders and the community at large.

Link and inspire for tomorrow: lift is a place-based strategy that creates partnerships between neighborhoods and resources. Lift is based on the community school model found in 5,000 communities across the nation, and it has an integrated focus on academics, health and social services, community engagement, and development.

Imagination library: this is a program to provide books to children from birth to age five.

Volunteer income tax assistance: vita is a national program staffed by local volunteers to provide free preparation and electronic filing of tax returns.

United horizons: united horizons board training program helps to prepare community members to serve on nonprofit boards. The program is available to racine county residents and free to all participants.

Schools of hope: this program is in partnership with racine unified school district using volunteer tutors to address early grade reading proficiency.

Employee of record: uwrc partnered with racine county to become its employee of record for a literacy coordinator position, furthering uwrc's focus on early literacy.

Csi skill set: in collaboration with microsoft, uwrc launched an ai skill-a-thon, a free skilling competition to help local professionals, jobseekers, students and employers learn basic knowledge, skills, and competencies in ai to help them in their chosen career path.