United Way reviews

Thanks for writing this thoughtful review! We appreciate your feedback. With the unemployment rate in the San Francisco Bay Area hovering between 2.5% and 3%, we're proud that employees stay with us for 8 years--on average (2017). That's a testimony to how committed our staff is to cutting poverty in the Bay Area, how hard we try to keep our salaries at the fiftieth percentile of like organizations, how attractive our benefits package is, and how much we focus on things like our culture and work/life balance. You're right that funders have a predilection for new projects, though. For that reason, we are especially grateful for unrestricted general support--money that we can direct to wherever the need is greatest. We have and continue to be successful in sustaining our anchor programs. SparkPoint started in 2009; it now has 15 locations around the Bay Area. MatchBridge started in 2012; it has served 20,000 youth since that first year. Earn It, Keep It Save It, Emergency Food and Shelter, and our 24 hour telephone lifeline to basic needs services, 211, are all even older. Each has served and continues to serve thousands.