United Way of San Diego County

We strengthen our community when we align with partners and leverage our resources to transform lives.

UWSD works in alignment with partners to address inequities in our region and help underserved communities. Together, we leverage the use of data and our partners’ expertise to better understand root causes, and put impactful solutions into action.

Today, in partnership with others, we use shared goals, innovation, and proven practices to resolve inequities and transform the lives of children, young adults, and families.

Our success is measured by the lives we transform: the children who succeed, the families that thrive, the partners that align with us, leveraging their resources and expertise to transform the lives of children, young adults, and families in our community and move them forward into a brighter future.

These stories are our commitment to the San Diego County and the challenges we face together: an intern watches a second-grader transform from missing school to setting an attendance record. A volunteer tax-preparer sees a struggling family transform from fearing tax day to looking forward to their EITC refund. A high school student transforms from a teenager with no aspirations into a young person with a future pipelined to a prospering local tech industry.

Change starts small, but UWSD’s goals are big and hopeful: from transforming hundreds of lives to hundreds of thousands of lives in our region.