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Last year, more than 6,700 volunteers donated over 23,000 hours of hands-on service to our community. Join our team of volunteers to LIVE UNITED today!
Our mission is to connect people with organized and meaningful volunteer opportunities to help bring about positive social change.
It’s always a struggle to lose a job unexpectedly, but it’s especially hard right before the holidays. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to 350 workers at the Shoal Creek Mine in Walker County, who found themselves out of work in October. “That’s 350 people who thought […]
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For almost two decades, United Way of Central Alabama (UWCA) has honored Dr. King’s legacy of love and leadership with the MLK Day of Service. The annual event is designed […]
For the past 19 years the citizens of Birmingham and the surrounding areas have come out by the thousands to give back to their community on MLK Jr. Day of Service. We’re proud and you should be too! You’ve refurbished schools, built homes for the […]
