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Steady Stats, Shifting Lives: United Way NCA's 2025 ALICE Update Reveals Widening Gap Between Income and Survival

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 20, 2025) – United Way of the National Capital Area (United Way NCA), in partnership with United For ALICE, today released The State of ALICE in the..
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Oct 14, 2019

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What Does Philanthropy Look Like in 2019? To This Group of Gen Z, It’s Volunteering.

A spacious dining hall reverberated with the eager chatter of 12 Denison...

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Oct 14, 2019

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The Road Less Traveled: How One Man Persevered Through 25 Years of Addiction and Homelessness

“Traveling, to me, is like a life experience,” Lawrence Collins reflects on...

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Oct 10, 2019

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Empowering the Youth with Goal Setting Through Running

  You might think that convincing a group of teenagers to wake...

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Oct 10, 2019

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A Week into Being Homeless – Project Homeless Connect Gives New Hope to A Single, Working Mother

When Spring’s contract with a local water company abruptly ended, she couldn’t...

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Oct 10, 2019

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Putting Absenteeism on Spin Cycle: How United Way NCA is Cleaning Up Dropout Rates With Free Laundry

Amongst the lulling whoosh of a turbulent washing machine, stood four Enterprise volunteers,...

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Sep 30, 2019

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How Robert Warren is Using Poetry to Write a New Future for His Community

Holed up in a small media center tucked away on H St...


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For media inquiries, please contact Jasmine Johnson, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, at jjohnson@uwnca.org or call (202) 488-2145.

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