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United Way of Central Maryland is committed to helping the people who live and work in Baltimore County.

Through our partnership board and collaborations with local leaders, other volunteers, businesses and nonprofit organizations, we are working to identify and address issues, raise needed funds and find long-term solutions to some of the systemic problems – like lack of housing, school readiness, family violence and youth achieving their full potential - that negatively affect our communities.

The need:

During the 2006-2007 school year, 23 percent of kindergarten students were not fully ready to enter school.

More than 11 percent of students in all grades missed more than 20 days of the school year in 2006.

$18.10 is the hourly wage needed to afford a two-bedroom fair market rent apartment in Baltimore County. Earning minimum wage, that is the equivalent of 2.9 full-time jobs.

There were 5,165 domestic violence incidents in Baltimore County in 2006.

In Baltimore County, 293 temporary protective orders and 153 final protective orders were granted in circuit court for domestic violence cases in fiscal year 2006.

In Baltimore County, 10 individuals were killed as a result of domestic violence in fiscal year 2007.

There were 3,056 total child protective services abuse and neglect investigations in FY 2005 in Baltimore County.

Source: Maryland State Department of Education, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Crime in Maryland: 2006 Uniform Crime Report, Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, State of Maryland Department of Human Resources

United Way of Central Maryland Impact Partners at work in Baltimore County

AIDS Interfaith Residential Services
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland
Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
The Family Tree
Health Care for the Homeless
Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training
Maryland Committee for Children
PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs
Prologue
Salvation Army, Greater Baltimore Area
TurnAround
The Women’s Law Center of Maryland
Y of Central Maryland

Baltimore County Discretionary Funding Recipients, 2007:

Community Assistance Network
The Future
Nehemiah House
*St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Baltimore County (CASA)
Resolutions Unlimited
The Preston Mitchum Jr. Foundation
Mission of Mercy
Salvation Army Middle River Boys and Girls Club
Renaissance Center
Building Blocks  

Long-standing affiliate partners at work in central Maryland

American Cancer Society South-Atlantic Division
American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic Affiliate
American Red Cross of Central Maryland
Associated Black Charities
THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
Catholic Charities
Community Health Charities of Maryland

* UWCM Impact Partners