UNITED WE HELP STUDENTS BE ALL THEY CAN BE

United Way of Buffalo & Erie County is fighting to increase high-quality education. We work to help initiatives that engage parents as their child’s first teacher, provide early intervention for kids who need it, and support programs that increase language, literacy, and math skills.

Education: School readiness, giving parents and their children the tools to enter school ready to succeed. Community Engagement: Leveraging community stakeholders and resources to expand our capacity to improve education for children and families.

 

we do the research

At United Way, we do the research to identify our community's most critical problems. Take a look inside "A Profile of Third-Grade Proficiency in Erie County," below to learn why students are struggling to read on grade level and what we're doing to help them.

A Profile of Third-Grade Proficiency in Erie County

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"United Way has absolutely changed the lives of our Pre-K students. The Magic Penny literacy program has done ore in three months than anything I've seen in my thirty years of teaching." quote from a Lackawanna Pre-K Teacher