United Way of Greater Kansas City’s mission is to mobilize people and resources to improve healthcare, enhance youth opportunity, foster financial security and build community resiliency—so that everyone has the ability to thrive. We do this by investing in the highest-impact nonprofits and program addressing community need in our six-county service area; and by engineering real-time solutions to our community’s most pressing challenges in collaboration with the public, private and philanthropic sectors. This includes operating 211, our community’s 24/7 resource and referral service which responded to more than 476,000 contacts in 2024. Every year, 1 in 3 Kansas Citians find help through United Way, and we continue to develop new and innovative ways to connect our community to the services, support and resources people need.
