Community Resiliency Programs

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Focus Area

COMMUNTIY RESILIENCY

Addressing urgent needs today for a better tomorrow.

UPCAP 211 Services

Upper Peninsula 211

Get connected to the help you need - quickly, easily and confidentially.

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When there’s a crisis, where do you turn? If it’s a life-threatening emergency, you call 911. But what if you can’t pay your electric bill? Or you need childcare? Or legal help? Now you call or text 211.21 1 is the one number you call or text to get answers to life’s many challenges. And United Way makes it possible. United Way has partnered with area organizations and companies who offer free or discounted social services to provide you a fast, easy way to get the specific help you need…as quickly as possible!

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ALICE Report

What is the 'Alice' Report?

Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed

Of Michigan's 4,056,442 households in 2022…

  • 13% earned below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)

  • 28% were ALICE, in households that earned above the FPL but not enough to afford the basics in the communities where they live

  • Together, 41% of households in Michigan were below the ALICE Threshold (poverty + ALICE divided by total households)

United For Alice Pie Chart

It is a complex term for a population we know too well. ALICE is working hard, but barely surviving and definitely not thriving. ALICE is part of our economic engine but ALICE is struggling. ALICE may be a college student, working and going to school hoping for a better life or a senior citizen making a difficult choice between food, housing and prescriptions. ALICE could be a working dad, with childcare, transportation and housing costs that leave very little to provide shoes for his children. ALICE is many of us.

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