$4.5M in expenses

Education. Education is key to an individual's long-term success and financial stability. UWM focuses on early education and key transitions in school to improve on-time graduation. During the 2024-2025 school year,midlands reading consortium. (MRC) served a total of 4,652 students across all initiatives, including: 127 students through one-on-one reading sessions, 940 through classroom readings and literacy events, 120 through STEM summer camps, and 3,455 students through STEM engagement events and activities. One-on-one sessions were supported by 118 MRC volunteers with 578 hours of reading support. MRC had a presence in 18 schools, 9 school districts, and five counties. UWM also supported children in after-school and school-based programs. A total of 8,058 students between kindergarten and 12th grade were enrolled in youth education and development programs supported by UWM. Young men united. (ymu) is an evidence-informed initiative designed to create barrier-free pathways for young men to reach their academic and career goals. Ymu offers wraparound supports to young men starting in the tenth and eleventh grade, supporting them until they graduate from a college program and/or enter the workforce. In 2024-2025, ymu expanded from 75 students at two schools to 105 at five schools: eau claire high school, richland northeast high school, irmo high school, columbia high school, and westwood high school. The second group of ymu seniors graduated high school this year with a 100% graduation rate.leadership and capacity building supports the mission of UWM and community impact by providing capacity building activities that support strong nonprofit partners and encouraging civic engagement in the community. Capacity building activities include training and support in the development and reporting of common outcomes and indicators, and training and technical assistance in governance and other nonprofit best practices. In 2024-2025, UWM staff and volunteers renewed partnership with 21 nonprofit organizations and initiated a partnership with one new organization. Staff and volunteers reviewed 45 funding applications and assessed 23 end-of-year program reports. Through our blueprint for leadership program, we trained 23 community members for board and committee service. The UWM volunteer center managed the community portal for volunteering and organized or facilitated 49 volunteer projects in the community. The total number of volunteers associated with UWM during the fiscal year was 2,371.

$2.9M in expenses

Financial stability and basic needs initiatives. UWM serves as lead u.s. Housing and urban development department (HUD) agency for the midlands area consortium for the homeless (mach) which is the HUD designated homeless continuum of care covering 13 counties stretching from york, through the midlands to aiken. As a team, we are committed to ending homelessness in the midlands. Mach member agencies and other partners provide direct services, shelter and housing that assist our community's homeless families, individuals, youth and veterans to stability. The complexity of the issue, diversity of the populations and shifting resources and priorities of the community and federal government make coordination key to community success. Since 2006, UWM has led mach's efforts to secure federal funding from the u.s. Department of HUD to support homeless housing programs. To date, over $49 million in federal resources have been brought into the midlands through this work leveraging an estimated $154 million in matching resources.UWM manages emergency food and shelter program (efsp) funds for four of our counties. Efsp funds are federal dollars that support sheltering, food, and emergency financial assistance programs in four of UWM's counties. This year we received the following efsp funds: $8,531 for fairfield county; $85,906 for lexington county; $12,124 for newberry county; $135,615 for richland county.

$1.6M in expenses

Donor designations. As a convenience to its donors, united way of the midlands allows direct unrestricted contributions to other united ways or specific agencies. United way of the midlands supports 74 partner agencies in the areas of building resiliency and providing safety net services. United way of the midlands does not require the recipient organizations to provide information relative to the use results of these contributions.

$3.3M in expenses

Health initiatives. UWM promotes access to primary health care as well as dental and eye care for people who are underinsured or lack insurance at all. United way programs and investments helped over 4,800 people access health care, providing 3,110 adult and child patient visits for dental care and 2,981 adult patient visits for eye care.