Greater Twin Cities United Way Community impact Report

We must re-imagine how we care for one another. 2025 brought federal policy changes in food, housing, education and other essential services that eliminated decades-long funding practices, and at a scale that no public or philanthropic organization is built to replace. Additionally, real and perceived fraud in healthcare and other social services has undermined public trust in legitimate nonprofits — forcing our already-strained partners to manage their work in new and sometimes costly ways. Our nonprofits are facing new fundraising and security realities while stretching to meet surging demand. Our families and businesses are navigating an impossible landscape of rising costs, less money and more uncertainty. Our
community is hurting.

We’re here for this. Greater Twin Cities United Way has been building relationships among nonprofits, volunteers, donors and employers to support our community for 110 years. We’ve stuck together through wars, pandemics and changing political landscapes. What comes next will look different from what we’re used to, and we will build it together.

United, we’ve already begun. In 2025, our trusted partnerships across sectors were a conduit to quickly
move funds, information and people to do the most good:

• We responded. To help families struggling with the results of policy decisions including SNAP changes, we made emergency food grants, answered a surge in 211 resource helpline calls, and organized an emergency volunteer response that generated thousands of meals.
  
  
• We stabilized. In April 2025, we launched Community Investments partnerships with 98 nonprofits doing the best work to meet urgent needs in housing, food, education and economic opportunity. Partners tell us that our multiyear flexible funding, free consulting services and personal relationships provide a rare source of reliability in the turmoil.
  
  
• We kept investing in a thriving future. In 2025, working toward equity at a regional scale meant training more educators in the trauma-sensitive practices that nurture childhood brain development, investing in homelessness prevention for foster youth, and continuing to engage with lawmakers across the political spectrum.

Our shared vision of a community where all people thrive regardless of income, race or place matters now more than ever. Thank you for supporting us to enter 2026 stronger than before.

With gratitude,