United Way of Tucson responds to our community’s needs, transforms lives and brings long-lasting systemic change to our community by focusing on the underlying issues. We fight for education, financial wellness, equality and healthy communities for every person in Tucson and Southern Arizona. Our role as community convener enables us to serve more than 420,000 people each year by forming strategic partnerships, mobilizing the best resources and being the catalyst for needed, positive change.

Through AmeriCorps and ASU's Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Non-Profit Innovation, Allies are placed with a nonprofit organization where they help address critical community needs such as youth development, education, workforce development, environmental issues, arts programming and community health. Our AmeriCorps program is a dynamic pipeline for talented people to emerge as leaders and to strengthen the capacity of community organizations.