Your investment supports the building blocks for a good life in our community.
United Way of Greater Duluth works hard at building the long-term future and strength of our community by targeting key issues and conditions that, if improved, will have profound positive and lasting impact on our community for years to come.
Good HEALTH is essential to a quality life. Access to quality health care keeps children on track in school and adults productive at work.
Local programs at these agencies receive funding from United Way of Greater Duluth.
Arc Northland
- FASD Intervention
This program provides intervention planning and aftercare services for Duluth area children and teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
- Family/Child Mental
This program provides a variety of support to parents of children with any type of disability.
Human Development Center
This program allows low-income families with no insurance or inadequate insurance to receive services; including therapy, testing, education, and psychiatry.
Lake Superior Community Health Center
This program improves access to health care for low-income, uninsured and underinsured people.
Life House
- Kids to Adults KATS
Kids to Adult Transitional Services provides outreach to youth 16-21 that have mental health concerns, build relations, provide support, and connect them to essential and mental health services.
Children's Dental Service
- SMILES Across Minnesota - Duluth
UWGD supports SMILES - a program that provides preventive dental services to low-income, uninsured and underinsured children age’s three to twelve in the Duluth Public Elementary Schools, Middle Schools and Head Start Centers.