Focused Investments

United Way fights for the health, education, and economic well-being of every person in every community.

United Way of the Greater Capital Region (UWGCR) aims to enhance community well-being at a generational scale. With nearly a century of service, UWGCR has grown to support hundreds and thousands of people through community-wide collective giving, support for a critical network of nonprofit partners, strategic community investments, innovation in human services, effective partnerships across the business, public and nonprofit sectors, meaningful ways for individuals to help others.

Building a Bigger We

2024-2026 Focused Investments

Focused Investments are UWGCR's largest competitive, responsive grant. They are multi-year, unrestricted grants open to community-based organizations operating in any or all of UWGCR's eight-county footprint. 

United Way's Focused Investments aim to empower ALICE households in the Capital Region to move beyond crisis and towards prosperity. They seek to support community-driven solutions that address immediate basic needs in education, health, and economic well-being while prioritizing equity, effectiveness, and sustainability. The Focused Investments represent United Way's primary responsive investment platform, designed to bolster community-driven solutions aimed at addressing the immediate needs and rights of ALICE households. We aim to invest in community-based organizations that empower ALICE households, viewing their efforts as a strategy to foster a strong, resilient democracy that benefits the broader population, not just a select few.

We are looking for organizations that equitably, effectively, and sustainably meet individuals’ and families’ immediate basic needs in education, health, and economic well-being. We are looking for organizations that uplift and build power for and with ALICE.  Investments will be made to sustain or scale successful practices.

Download the RFP document.

Download the Collaborative Learning Framework

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Have questions about the Focused Investment application?

Join the Community Impact team on Zoom during the open office hours. Sign up here to receive the link to join! To be added to our mailing list to learn about funding opportunities, please email communityimpact@unitedwaygcr.org.

  • March 26 from 10:00 - 11:00 AM (overview of RFP process & Survey Moneky application)
  • April 3 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM
  • April 11 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM
  • April 16 from 10:00 - 11:00 AM
  • April 24 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

INVEST

in critical programs and complex social change with a high return on community investment.

CONNECT

people, resources, sectors and initiatives to unite toward common goals.

SERVE

to achieve a thriving community for all.

2022-2023 Focused Investment Partners