United Way supports a safety net of services and programs that work together to improve lives and build a strong community. This provides a circle of care, from prevention to intervention to crisis management and counselling.

When you give to United Way the power of your gift multiplies when it's combined with the gifts of others to support 109 programs and services offered through 53 community agencies. Your donation supports an entire network of programs and services and helps solve a range of community-wide problems.

• Make a secure, online donation to United Way of Peel Region.
• Print a pledge form (pdf) and fax to 905-602-3651
  

• Create a network of support to meet people’s immediate needs and find long-term solutions to priority issues in the community
• Help ensure that those you care about will have support if it is needed
• Receive a tax receipt. Click here for more information on the tax savings your donation will bring you.
• Feel good about making a difference
• Donations can be made in a variety of ways and can be one-time or spread out over the year
  

Thank you for your support. To find out more about some of the individuals you donation has helped, read our success stories.

To make the most powerful contribution possible, give to United Way's Community Fund. Your gift will be combined with the gifts of others to support programs and services that address immediate needs in Peel Region.

Here are just a few examples of what your gift can do (based on 26 pay periods per year)

• $2 per pay ($52 per year) provides a food voucher for a hungry and vulnerable mother and child.
• $5 per pay ($130 per year) provides a light lunch and an afternoon of cards for 20 frail and isolated seniors.
• $8 per pay ($208 per year) provides recreation groups for 6-to-9-year-olds to help them learn strategies for working cooperatively with their peers instead of engaging in negative behaviours.
• $10 per pay ($260 a year) provides 2 children staying at a crisis shelter with the opportunity to attend summer camp.
• $15 per pay ($390 per year) provides on-scene crisis support to 25 victims of crime in need of assistance to overcome the physical and psychological impact of their trauma.
• $20 per pay ($520 a year) helps provide 911-only cell phones and home alarms to women at extreme risk of
  violence
• $40 per pay ($1,040 per year) provides one intellectually challenged person and their family with support to access community resources and long-term planning for their current and future well-being.
• $50 per pay ($1,300 per year) provides a troubled youth with confidential counselling for four to six months from a professional social worker.
• $75 per pay ($1,950 per year) provides a class of learning-disabled children with 10 weeks of social-skills training, improving their chances for success at school and in the community.
• $100 per pay ($2,600 per year) enables four abusive men to participate in a 16-week counselling group to help them change their abusive behaviour.