Who is Heart of Indiana United Way? 

Heart of Indiana United Way (HIUW) mobilizes communities into action so all can thrive—across the five counties we serve (Delaware, Fayette, Henry, Madison, and Randolph).  We help give opportunities to people who work hard but have limited money, are ALICE—Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, and Employed, and those who have been left out in the past. 

We listen to people in our communities. We take what they hope and are concerned about, pair that with what experts tell us could work, and develop programs and strategies that make a difference. We work with groups of organizations to improve how we help all people with education, money, and health. 

Heart of Indiana United Way zeroes in on these focus areas: 

1. Read and Achieve— We work with partners who help children get a strong start in school and life. This includes things like early childhood education, after-school  programming, tutoring services, student support services, and making sure everyone has a fair shot at a good education. 
2. THRIVE Network— We team up with partners to help people get ahead financially. This means job training, career coaching, preparing for a job, and making sure everyone has equitable access to services and resources. We also help with things like managing money, reducing debt, saving for short-term needs, and providing access to assets and long-term savings options like owning a home. This includes services like financial and housing counseling, tax help, signing up for benefits, and programs that match savings. While working on these things, we make sure that the hopes and dreams that families have for their children are at the center of what we do. 
3. Community Resilience— We help strengthen partners to make our communities stronger. These partners work to meet basic needs like: securing food, preventing violence, ensuring healthcare access, getting internet access, helping with rent/mortgage/utility payments, offering legal aid, and connecting people with social services.

Grant Opportunity 

With this grant, we want to work together with organizations that are experts in their work and care about their communities to collectively better understand the problems our neighbors face, and together, come up with smart solutions. 

Throughout the grant period, Funded Partners will help decide the best way to learn from each other, including: the kinds of meetings and reports that will support our working better together to deliver results. United Way will ask for updates halfway through and at the end of the grant cycle. To ensure strong partnership and trust, grantees will need to join regular meetings.