2024 Financial Wellness Blogs
Lantern for Partners
What is Lantern?
Lantern provides expert-curated tips, engaging activities, and trusted, evidence-based resources via text messages to help families support their children's healthy development from pregnancy through the preteen years.
Lantern for Families
What is Lantern?
Lantern provides expert-curated tips, engaging activities, and trusted, evidence-based resources via text messages to help families support their children's healthy development from pregnancy through the preteen years. Lantern is:
Investing in Our Community: United Way of Greater New Bedford’s Community Impact Grants
At United Way of Greater New Bedford (UWGNB), we believe that strong communities are built through collaboration, innovation, and direct investment in programs that make a tangible difference. Our Community Impact Grants are designed to channel local dollars into initiatives that address the most pressing issues in our region, ensuring that funding reaches the organizations that need it most.
What Are Community Impact Grants?
Prioritizing Economic Mobility for All Residents
Organization tackling financial instability head-on with increased programming and grantmaking for low-income families.
For Companies
Volunteer SouthCoast for Companies
Volunteerism is more important than ever for companies trying to reach their corporate social responsibility goals. Through Volunteer SouthCoast, we can create a user group specific to your company to track your impact. We can also create a custom page for your team to easily find volunteer opportunities in the areas you care most about. We can provide reports on activity and impact on a monthly or annual basis.
2025 E-Swag Coupons
Thank you for attending Power of the Purse! We hope you enjoy these incredible discounts from our 2025 E-Swag Partners! Be sure to tell them how much you appreciate their support of Power of the Purse and Women United.
Women United Initiatives
Since launching in 2018, Women United has collaborated with our Women United leaders, community organizations, business owners, and volunteers to support women and children in Greater New Bedford. Through unique initiatives like Wash & Read, Lantern (formerly Bright by Text), and Baby Bundles, we connect directly to families. In October of 2023, Women United expanded its literacy work to include financial literacy for women.
Women United Leaders
Women United leaders are United Way donors with a passion for supporting women!
Women United is a global initiative of United Way Worldwide operating in over 165 communities across the US and around the globe on issues affecting women, children, and families. United Way of Greater New Bedford founded our local Women United in 2018.
Women United Leaders
Power of the Purse
What is Power of the Purse? 