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| What We Do: Adult Self Sufficiency |
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In today’s economy, the opportunities for hardworking families to become financially stable and provide a better future for their children are becoming increasingly limited. One in five Colorado households lacks the income to cover their most basic living expenses.
Let’s invest and create a metro Denver community where all people have the opportunity for financial stability and self sufficiency. Our Five-Year Plan focuses on:
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Increasing workforce training and scholarships |
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Providing matched savings accounts |
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Expanding transformational housing |
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Supporting basic need services |
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Making a Difference
Mile High United Way and our community partners now support more than 208,000 individuals through our Adult Self Sufficiency initiative, focusing on helping individuals and families achieve self sufficiency.
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207,267 people in need received services to meet basic needs for housing, food and healthcare. |
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Last year, more than 120,000 people called United Way’s 2-1-1 to get connected to vital human services in our community. |
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We established the L:earn community partnership, providing 114 individuals with scholarships for licensure, certification, associates and bachelor’s degrees to build their job skills and increase their earning potential. |
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Hundreds of Individual Development Accounts, savings accounts that are matched by Mile High United Way, have been established to help hardworking individuals and families save money for post-secondary education, a down payment on a home or to start a small business. |
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Formerly homeless families are building a better future at Brunetti Lofts, our community’s first transformational housing project. After five years at Brunetti, these families will be empowered to buy their own home. |
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We partner with the City and County of Denver on Denver’s Road Home, Mayor Hickenlooper’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness. In the first three years of the plan, we’ve created 1,243 new units of housing and provided employment solutions to 3,278 homeless individuals and their families. |
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Bridging the Gap
The Bridging the Gap project at Mile High United Way comes alongside foster youth, some of our community’s most vulnerable members, to help them become financially stable adults. Click here to learn more about Bridging the Gap.
Individual Development Accounts
Mile High United Way in Denver, Colorado offers help for low income families through Individual Development Accounts. These matched savings accounts enable hardworking individuals and families to save money for post-secondary education, a down payment on a home or to start a small business. Click here for more on IDA’s.
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Click here to read an Adult Self Sufficiency Success Story
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