United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta works to engage all segments of the community to build a region that promotes the health and well-being of its residents.  At United Way, we are engaging communities to work on two goals that will help drive sustainable change in the health of our community's residents:

• People have access to primary health care
• Babies are born healthy 

People have access to primary health care
United Way wants to see all residents of the metro region have access to primary care services, including medical care, mental health services and dental care. In the metro region alone, there are more than 650,000 people that do not have health insurance, including more than 143,000 children. Beyond these numbers, residents of the metro region are facing barriers to accessing primary care services on a daily basis because of language differences, geography, lack of transportation and limited income to pay for health services. 

Some startling statistics...

• Georgia ranks 41st of 50 among states in the percent of residents without health insurance (United Health).
• With an estimated 650,000 uninsured in the metro region, about $715 million is spent on health care obtained by the uninsured (Georgia Health Policy Center).
• Metro Atlanta is home to nearly 40 percent of all Georgians and more than 30 percent of the state’s uninsured (Georgia Health Policy Center).

Read about our partnership with Kaiser Permanente that focuses on our health work. (pdf)

Babies are born healthy

With alarming statistics such as the ones listed below, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta is focused on building a collaborative network convened to reduce the number of low birth weight (LBW) babies across the metro area. The network will focus on achieving long-term sustained outcomes, especially those that are systemic in nature and provide economies of scale in capacity-building, development and dissemination of best practices that ideally lend themselves to replication and increased access to services.

Some startling statistics....

• Every two hours in Georgia, a baby is born with LBW. In metro Atlanta, this is one out of every 11 babies and unfortunately, the trend is worsening.
• The LBW rate in Georgia is among the worst in the nation and has climbed steadily since 2000, reaching 9.5 percent in 2007.
• Nearly 70 percent of all low birth weight babies die in the first year of life.
• The disparity is higher among African American women, in that black babies are twice as likely as white or Hispanic babies to be born LBW.

AIDS Response Center
The Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund (AAPF) is a collaborative funding partnership including the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, the National AIDS Fund, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, Jeffrey Fashion Cares and StyleAtlanta.

The mission of AAPF is to further HIV/AIDS advocacy, and to provide prevention, intervention and client services in metro Atlanta through funding and leadership. The AAPF has awarded grants totaling more that $10 million to help lessen the impact of this epidemic in our community and to improve the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Fund Leadership (pdf)

Atlanta AIDS Fund

The Atlanta AIDS Fund is pleased to launch our 2010 Grant Cycle.  Grant materials are provided below. AAF will be providing orientations to this year's grant cycle on the following days:

July 1, 2010   2pm-4pm 

July 15, 2010 2pm-4pm

Location: United Way of Metro Atlanta

100 Edgewood Ave NE 

Atlanta, GA 30303

 2010 Grant Cycle Materials

Letter of Intent Instructions

Letter of Intent

Final Application