Greater Ottawa County United Way & Volunteer Center

Greater Ottawa County United Way is in the business of Community Impact - improving lives by mobilizing communities to create sustained changes in community conditions.

We do this by a proactive year-round approach:
Annual Community Solutions Campaign (fundraising)
Community Investment Process (allocations)
Volunteer Center
Strategic Community Assessment and Planning

We focus solutions in three areas:
Thriving Kids
Strong Families
Healthy Communities

WE DID IT!
$2,109,939 -- 2007-08 Campaign Results
THANK YOU GREATER OTTAWA COUNTY

2008 GOCUW Report to the Community
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Live United Fall 2008 Newsletter
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Volunteer Solutions
To Register as a Volunteer, Go To Volunteer Now

2007-08 GOCUW Lighthouse Leadership Circle Registry
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2008 Community Investment Process
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Live United Spring 2008 Newsletter
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2008 Community Assessment Lunch and Launch Event, Tuesday, September 30, at the Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville
More than 100 community leaders and social service agency directors gathered at The Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville on September 30 as Greater Ottawa County United Way hosted the launch and "green release" of the 2008 Community Assessment for Ottawa County. For more information, click here.

2008 DAY OF CARING September 18, 2008
More than 600 community members from area businesses, schools, churches and service organizations will perform service projects at approximately 70 sites throughout Ottawa County, coordinated by Greater Ottawa County United Way’s Volunteer Center. This is a way for individuals and organizations to give back to our community and extend a helping hand to our neighbors in need—in short, to LIVE UNITED.

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