Community Involvement 

Giving and working together to address the most critical issues affecting metro Atlanta is the only way to ensure successful results. United Way offers a variety of programs and partnerships designed to bring people together and focus their considerable resources toward achieving the goals that matter most to our community. Uniting, focusing and mobilizing the strengths of metro Atlanta's finest companies, nonprofit groups, faith-based organizations, government agencies and caring individuals is what United Way does best.

Goodwill of North Georgia provides job training and employment services to people who are having trouble finding work, want to change careers, or start their own business. With the agency’s support, Goodwill participants overcome employment hurdles caused by physical, emotional and developmental disabilities, limited job skills, poverty and other challenges. Goodwill sells donated clothing, books, furniture and household goods and the proceeds help fund the organization’s mission which is to “Put People to Work”.

The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots organization is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a shiny new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to needy youngsters that will motivate them to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens and community leaders.