United Way of Greater Houston Partner List

AccessHealth

AccessHealth is dedicated to excellence in providing integrated health care services to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves. We provide quality health care for the entire family. Our dedicated group of health care providers work together to ensure that every patient receives high quality, comprehensive and affordable health care.

Alexander Jewish Family Service (JFS)

Alexander Jewish Family Service offers a family of integrated services that support and transform the lives of individuals, families and communities by empowering them to strengthen skills, achieve goals and make decisions that will change the trajectory of their lives.

Alliance for Community Assistance Ministries (ACAM)

Work to create opportunities for refugees, immigrants, and underserved residents to achieve their goals for self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life.

Angel Reach

A faith-based nonprofit organization that helps children and youth between the ages of 16-24 achieve their full potential in spite of the obstacles placed on them by broken families and a broken system.

AVANCE-Houston

Ensures school readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build social and economic capital.

AVDA

Centered on family violence intervention and prevention, we build and grow programs in the Greater Houston Area that both shed light on the subject and transform lives.

Avenue 360 Health and Wellness

Our medical team provides primary, behavioral health, and dental care for patients at the beginning to the end of life, as well as a reduced-cost pharmacy.

Avenue CDC

Avenue builds quality, affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods. Our homes are built with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind. We understand the importance of having a place to call home, and we strive to make that dream a reality.

Avondale House

Serves individuals living with moderate to severe autism from the age of 5 to throughout their lifetime.

BakerRipley

Connect low-income families and individuals to opportunity so they can achieve the life they’ve imagined. Our Impact is therefore targeted towards strengthening community engagement, improving financial well-being and increasing educational attainment in every community we serve.

Bay Area Council On Drugs & Alcohol (BACODA)

Help individuals, families, and communities stop alcohol/drug abuse and addiction.

Bay Area Turning Point

Provide shelter and immediate response to men, women, children who have experienced sexual assualt or domestic violence. Work to prevent and bring an end to domestic violence and sexual assault through advocacy, outreach, and education efforts across the state of Texas.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star

Provides volunteer opportunities for youth mentoring in one of the largest combined need areas.

Boy Scouts of America-Sam Houston Area Council

Prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston

Gives local youth access to positive role models, fun, and educational activities, nourishing meals, and opportunities to build character in a safe environment.

Bread of Life

Eradicating food insecurity while improving health outcomes in vulnerable communities in Houston, as well as providing the fundamental human needs of love, hope, dignity, and belonging.

Capital IDEA

Capital IDEA Houston’s mission is to invest in working adults by providing educational pathways from low-wage to living-wage careers

Career and Recovery Resources

CRR breaks barriers for people experiencing substance abuse, underemployment, and housing instability, with focused services for youth, Veterans, people with disabilities, and those referred from the criminal justice system.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

People of faith helping people in southeast Texas by providing caring, compassionate services and advocating for social justice in collaboration with parishes and communities.

Center for Pursuit

Promotes the pursuit of choice, growth, and independence for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism.

Children’s Museum Houston

Transform communities through innovative,child-centered learning that improves the trajectories of all children.

Children’s Safe Harbor

To achieve justice and healing for every abused child and engage our community in that mission.

Chinese Community Center (CCC)

The Chinese Community Center is a multi-ethnic organization serving all Houstonians. Our mission is to bridge East and West by enriching families with educational, cultural, and social service programs.

CollegeCommunityCareer

Prepare students for admission to and graduation from a four-year university based on these four pillars: College Success, Leadership Development, Civic Engagement, and Career Discovery.

Communities in Schools of Houston (CIS)

Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Network of partners—including volunteers, social service agencies, mental health providers, and educators—that help students stay focused, so they can go further tomorrow.

Community Assistance Center (CAC)

Providing resources to meet basic needs and improve quality of life for our neighbors in Montgomery County.

Community Family Centers (CFC)

Providing a safe and nurturing environment for children to excel, promoting opportunities for adults to learn, and advancing cultural understanding and community partnerships.

Covenant Community Capital

Provides financial education, coaching, savings matches and no interest loans that equip working families to thrive and secure generational resilience by acquiring affordable homes, accessing quality education, managing risk, and building savings for life.

Covenant House Texas

Shelter for homeless, abused and abandoned youth ages 18 – 24. CHT offers mental health and substance abuse counseling, educational and vocational training, transitional and permanent living programs, street outreach and prevention, pastoral ministry and parenting classes in addition to providing the basic necessities of food, clothing, medical care and safe shelter from the streets for youth in crisis.

Cy-Hope

Brings needs and solutions together, bringing hope to at-risk children so they will grow into educated and productive citizens in Cypress.

Easter Seals of Greater Houston

Provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, other special needs, service members, Veterans and their families.

Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services (ECHOS)

Serves people in need by providing access to the health and social service resources that can improve their lives.

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston (ERJCC)

Develop and strengthen Jewish identity, foster Jewish values and enrich the Jewish community and the greater community.

Family Houston

Family Houston assists through our community support services, mental health and financial stability programs.

Family Ties, Family Resource Services

Serve victims of family violence, sexual assault, bullying and other children’s crisis issues.

Focusing Families

Committed to strengthening individuals, families and communities through education, prevention and intervention to eliminate Family Violence, Sexual Assault, and other crisis issues.

Fort Bend County Women’s Center

Provides services for the survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault for 40 years in the Greater Houston Area.

Fort Bend Regional Council on Substance Abuse

FBRC comprehensively addresses substance abuse through youth prevention and leadership development programs, treatment for individuals and families struggling with addiction, and outreach programs to help families and communities stay safe and drug free.

Fort Bend Senior Citizens Meals on Wheels

Serves all eligible senior citizens age 60 and over living in Fort Bend and Waller Counties. Provide daily and weekly hot meal deliveries throughout Fort Bend and Waller Counties through a network of staff and volunteer drivers.

Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council

Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges—whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends.

Girls Empowerment Network

Help girls become unstoppable. Girls Empowerment Network’s mission is to ignite the power in girls by teaching them the skills to thrive and believe in their ability to be unstoppable.

Girls Inc. of Greater Houston

Girl centered organization offers local education enrichment programs in schools, at day camps, and other events.

Goodwill Industries of Houston

Educate, train, and hire individuals with barriers to employment to help them thrive. We connect people, families, and communities to improve lives and to meet the workforce needs of today and tomorrow.

Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (HCDVCC)

To improve Harris County’s response to domestic violence, we lead efforts to build collaborative systems and innovative programs that increase access to services and safety.

Hope and Healing Center & Institute

Mental health resource serving the Houston community and beyond.

Hope Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery organization working in underserved communities of Greater Houston and East Texas.

Houston Area Urban League (HAUL)

Enable Black people and other marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.

Houston Area Women’s Center (HAWC)

Helps survivors affected by domestic and sexual violence.

Humble Area Assistance Ministries (HAAM)

An interfaith organization that helps community residents in crisis by providing essential resources to move toward self-sufficiency.

HYPE Freedom School

Serving the Sunnyside/South Park and other surrounding Houston area youth by providing positive youth development services that enhance the lives of children who most need and yet families can least afford out of school time learning opportunities.

Interfaith Caring Ministries (ICM)

Assists those in need who live in the Texas Bay Area, specifically in Clear Creek and Friendswood ISDs. Our mission is to honor our faiths and strengthen our community one family at a time by helping local families, individuals, and seniors in need.

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston

An inclusive connector of people, faith communities and resources in our nation’s most diverse city, sustaining healthy and respectful lives for vulnerable populations and promoting interfaith relations and volunteerism.

Interfaith of The Woodlands

Interfaith of the Woodlands helps individuals and families in crisis through financial assistance for rent, mortgage, utilities, gasoline, prescription drug assistance, emergency shelter, food, clothing, senior programs and offers counseling, job training, and childcare.

Katy Christian Ministries (KCM)

Social Service non-profit serving Katy/West Houston. We have Social Service Departments that offer emergency financial assistance, Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the Domestic Abuse Center and the Sexual Assault Center, and Resale Stores / Donation Centers.

L.I.F.E. Houston

Providing emergency infant formula and ensuring access to the right nutrition among families with infants, L.I.F.E. Houston helps ensure that all Houston-area families can give their babies a strong start in life.

Legacy Community Health Services

Identifies unmet needs and gaps in health-related services and develops client-centered programs to address those needs.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

With residents and partners, LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

Meals On Wheels Montgomery County

Unique opportunities to meet nutritional needs, combat social isolation, address safety hazards and provide holisitic care

Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAM)

Providing financial assistance for those in need of basic needs, as well as employment and financial coaching, English & citizenship classes, immigration legal services, and mental health counseling. Works with some of the most vulnerable families in northwest Houston. Families lacking resources – living paycheck to paycheck.

Mental Health America of Greater Houston (MHA)

Mental Health America of Greater Houston is the area’s longest-serving mental health education and advocacy organization focused on shaping the mental health of people and communities in the areas of children and education, integrated health care, veterans, and community education.

Montgomery County Women’s Center

Provides safe shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, and transitional supportive housing to victims of family violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Montgomery and surrounding counties.

Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA)

Serving the surrounding community through four components: arts education programs; social and academic support services; an annual performance and exhibit series; and as a community cultural center. These elements provide enriching cultural arts experiences and social support to communities that might not otherwise have access to opportunities for creative expression.

My Brother’s Keeper Outreach Center

Provides emergency assistance, social services and training for individuals and families in crisis that will stabilize, strengthen and empower them to help themselves.

Neighbors in Action

Partners with families in Port Houston and surrounding communities to transform lives through spiritual growth, education, and meeting basic needs.

New Caney New Horizons

New Horizons day program provides training and employment opportunities to help individuals with disabilities live as independently as possible.

Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM)

Provides vital assistance and services to our community in Northwest Houston.

On the Road Lending

A human empowerment initiative that formed in 2013 to help people find cars that worked for them and to teach them how to make good financial decisions. Through our loan funds, we make low-cost loans on reliable cars based on who people are—not their credit scores. This life-changing auto lending process is creating prosperity one car loan at a time.

Partnership for the Advancement & Immersion of Refugees (PAIR)

Through educational mentoring programs, PAIR equips refugee youth to navigate American society, reach their academic potential and become community leaders.

Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP)

Unite business executives and inmates through entrepreneurial passion and servant leadership to transform lives, restore families and rebuild communities.

San Jose Clinic

Provide healing through quality healthcare and education with respect and compassion for those with limited access to car

Santa Maria Hostel

One of Texas’ largest multi-site residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment centers for women, and one of a very few to offer a full continuum of services for women who are pregnant or parenting.

SEARCH Homeless Services

Works to engage, stabilize, educate, employ and house individuals and families who are homeless in the Houston, Texas area.

Second Mile Mission Center

Provides food, clothing, spiritual care, and classes to help neighbors get and stay out of poverty.

SER-Jobs

Educates and equips people from low-income backgrounds or who have significant barriers to employment.

Southeast Area Ministries (SeAM)

Provide emergency services of food, clothing, financial assistance for housing, utilities, medicine, transportation, and resource navigation to persons who need immediate assistance.

Spring Branch Community Health Center

Providing comprehensive health care services to indigent and low-income patients in the Spring Branch community

Target Hunger

Alleviate hunger and its root causes in the northeast and east Houston neighborhoods we serve.

Texas Hearing Institute

Offering specialized audiology, speech therapy, early childhood education, family support services, and professional expertise, Texas Hearing Institute provides compassionate care and hope to children and families affected by hearing loss.

Texas Society to Prevent Blindness

Focus on improving the state’s vision and eye health by enhancing community capacity through our core competencies of early detection, patient support, systems enhancement, public policy, public awareness and health education.

The Bridge Over Troubled Waters

To offer support, provide safety and prevent domestic and sexual violence.

The Capital Good Fund

Offer small loans and personalized financial + health coaching to families.

The Children’s Assessment Center

We provide forensic interviewing, therapy and psychological services, and medical services free of charge to our clients.  Our hope is that our process will provide children and families the tools necessary to help them on their journey to heal from abuse.

The Coalition for The Homeless of Houston/Harris County

A catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.

The Council on Recovery

Helping individuals and families whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and co-occurring mental health disorders.

The Landing

Walking alongside survivors of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. BECAUSE EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE SAFE AND FREE

The Montrose Center

Empowers our community—primarily lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and their families—to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Integrated care model with one-stop access to behavioral health and support services, adult primary care and psychiatry, and free wellness programs that empower individuals to proactively participate in their own care.

The Network of Behavioral Health Providers (NBHP)

A non-profit collaborative of the leadership of more than 40 mental health and substance use disorder service providers in the greater Houston area.

The Salvation Army, Greater Houston Command

Provides and responds to the basic needs of Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery Counties. We are a resource for countless families, youth, seniors, and the unsheltered through programs that focus on our three pillars; Life Navigation, Rehabilitation, and Youth Development.

The Women’s Home

Provide a holistic approach to assiting women of any race in the Houston area. Currently have four unique programs: a residential treatment and transitional housing program, two permanent supportive housing programs, and a collaborative service center that offers support services to help prevent and end homelessness in our community.

The Women’s Resource of Greater Houston

Help women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive and financially stable. Inspire financial change, improving financial health, and overall individual and family wellbeing.

The Workfaith Connection

Provide faith-based training and coaching for anyone who desires long-term employment.

United Against Human Trafficking

End human trafficking through preventing exploitation, educating the community, and empowering survivor

Upskill Houston (Greater Houston Partnership)

Mobilizes the collective action of more than 200 critical stakeholders to strengthen the pipeline of skilled workers that employers need and to create better pathways to opportunity and prosperity for all Houstonians.

Urban Enrichment Institute (UEI)

Youth leadership and development program for at-risk males, ages 12 – 19, strategically located in one of Houston’s most economically depressed neighborhoods, so that we can directly serve the community in need.

Volunteers of America, Texas (VOA)

VOA Texas offers a vast array of human services that help individuals fulfill their potential and, in turn, build stronger, healthier communities. Services include substance use treatment/prevention, housing assistance, residential re-entry, employment services and disability services.

Wesley Community Center

Wesley Community Center invests in the potential of individuals and creates opportunities to strengthen families and build neighborhoods. Services include Early Childhood Education, Youth Program, Community Services, Senior Services, Food Programs and Financial Stability Programs.

West Houston Assistance Ministries (WHAM)

To empower and transform neighbors’ lives from crisis to self-sufficiency by providing healthy food, financial support, housing, medical resources, education, and job readiness.

Writers in the Schools (WITS)

Connect children and youth with professional writers and spoken word artists to unlock the joy and power of storytelling and creative expression.

Yes to Youth – Montgomery County Youth Services

Strengthens the emotional and mental health development of youth and families by providing crisis intervention, counseling, and suicide prevention services. We provide a safe and nurturing home where abused, battered, sex-trafficked, homeless, and at-risk youth begin healing from the past and become empowered for the future.

YMCA of Greater Houston

Offer a variety of programs, classes, and services. YMCA programs bring people together to develop strong, positive relationships with others in their neighborhoods and communities.

UWGH Geographic Areas – Entire Four-County Region (Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Waller counties)

UWGH Geographic Areas – Bay Area

UWGH Geographic Areas – Fort Bend County

UWGH Geographic Areas – Harris County

UWGH Geographic Areas – Waller County

UWGH Geographic Areas – Baytown Area & Chambers County

UWGH Geographic Areas – Brazoria County

UWGH Geographic Areas – Montgomery County

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Use my donation where it is needed most

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Early childhood and youth development

Helping young people succeed helps our families, our neighborhoods, and our community thrive. Through early childhood education, out-of-school enrichment,  and other support, we are helping prepare the next generation to lead our families, businesses, and communities.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Health care

Physical and behavioral health care programs help people become or remain able to fully engage in their careers, families, and lives. Services include primary health care, specialty care services, like dental care and occupational therapy, as well as individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, and substance use recovery.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Basic needs

helps our neighbors take care of their basic and immediate needs, like food, housing, and transportation. These services stabilize people who are in crisis and unable to meet their basic needs and allow them to focus on the future.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Financial stability (United Way Thrive)

Services like job training, financial education and coaching, savings strategies, and support to acquire assets help families and individuals along their pathway to financial stability.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – 211 Texas/United Way HELPLINE

A free, confidential helpline operated by United Way of Greater Houston, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. With dedicated United Way THRIVE and veterans specialists on staff, 211 Texas/United Way HELPLINE connects families and veterans with resources to meet their unique needs. 211 Texas/United Way HELPLINE is also the information resource before, during, and after natural disasters, connecting people in need with up-to-the-minute information and critical services.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Mission United – Veterans Initiative

With Mission United, all it takes is one call for veterans, active duty military members, and their families to be connected with a veterans services specialist who will guide them through the process from beginning to end and find the resources to meet their unique needs.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Escape From Violence

Provide services help those who are living in violent, aggressive, or otherwise unsafe environments and need immediate assistance to become safe. It includes critical needs such as refugee assistance, and freedom from violent situations, like domestic abuse and human trafficking.

UWGH Funding Goal Area – Bright Beginnings

An innovative early education program founded in partnership with ExxonMobil designed to help children from lower-income families achieve social, emotional, physical and cognitive milestones and enter school ready to succeed. Bright Beginnings’ hands-on curriculum and child-centered approach make a measurable difference in preparing children to start and succeed in school.