Income

More than 300,000
of OUR neighbors,
OUR coworkers, and OUR friends
live below the federal
poverty level in OUR
community.*

The second Building Block to self-sufficiency is Income. Enough income to help families meet their most basic needs, while gaining the financial capability to plan for—and accomplish—their long-term financial goals.

The United Way Objective
To promote financial stability and independence by helping those most in need to:

• Develop job skills
• Increase income through financial literacy education and access to mainstream financial services
• Build savings
• Gain and sustain assets

How Orange County United Way will accomplish these goals:
We are mobilizing our 13 income partner agencies through Orange County United Way’s Community Impact Fund to support the following strategic approaches:

• Financial literacy programs that directly increase the financial literacy of low-income families and individuals and encourage asset building/retention through financial education and linkages to mainstream financial resources and services.
• Workforce development programs that directly increase or provide employment opportunities for low-income individuals through job skill development, placement, and/or employment retention services.
• Orange County United Way’s Income Initiative—Banking on the Future:

-  Earn It. Keep It. Save It.

-  Bank On Orange County

-  Financial Literacy Program

-  SparkPoint OC

For a complete list of Orange County United Way’s Income Partner Agencies, click here.

To see the impact being made on individual lives, click here.
 

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*Source: 2010 U.S. Census Bureau