Who We Are
United Way of Brandon & District seeks to enhance community life and build stronger, healthier communities by connecting community needs to community resources. Through an effective annual fundraising campaign, the United Way of Brandon maximizes available financial resources to enable our member agencies to improve our community’s quality of life. Through the use of volunteer fund review teams and responsible stewardship, United Way of Brandon & District allocates funds to meet current and changing human care needs within the community. Currently, funds raised throughout Brandon and district directly supports 42 funded programs and services.
Mandate and Mission
The United Way of Brandon & District is an incorporated, registered Canadian Charitable organization. Established in 1937, United Way of Brandon & District has supported local community organizations for over 73 years.
Our mission is to “improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action”. At United Way of Brandon & District, our vision is to build community, change lives and work together to make a difference. This vision is not just a tagline but a mandate within which we operate — it is a demonstration of our commitment to helping those in need within our community.
To do this, we aspire to:
- Energize and inspire people to make a difference;
- Provide meaningful opportunities for individuals
to realize their potential by demonstrating volunteer
leadership in service to community; - Reflect the diversity of the communities we serve;
- Craft human care agendas within and across our
communities; - Build coalitions around these agendas;
- Increase investments in these agendas by expanding
and diversifying our own resource development and
fundraising efforts and supporting those of others; and, - Ensure that these investments have recognizable impact