United Way Announces Nearly $900,000 in Community Investments
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States is proud to announce our investment of $875,000 into the community to help prevent and reduce poverty in the Tri-State area. We focus on poverty reduction in our priority areas of healthy communities, youth opportunities, and financial security throughout our 10-county, tri-state area.
As part of this investment, United Way will allocate grant awards to 37 nonprofit organizations that offer programs focused on those priority areas.
The awards made for the upcoming 2026-2028 allocation cycle are a result of United Way’s fully competitive community investment model. A team of 21 community members from across the tri-states came together to review, score, and make funding recommendations on the 47 grant applications that were submitted. The process was extremely competitive as the requests totaled more than $1.8M.
“We are proud to share final decisions for our next fiscal year’s allocation to support healthy communities, youth opportunities and financial security in our community,” says Danielle Leibfried, UWDATS’ President and CEO. “The nonprofit programs selected were chosen with great care and decisions were made based on a variety of factors, including programs’ ability to meet an identified community need and their capacity to demonstrate strong, measurable outcomes to prevent and reduce poverty.”
Every dollar United Way invests in the community was raised through the generosity of our donors. This allows donors to impact nearly 50,000 local people each year. United Way continues to offer the community additional supports such as the 2-1-1 Information and Referral line, the VolunteerDBQ Portal, and the Sprout into Reading program.
Here is a complete list of our investments for the 2026-2028 allocation cycle:
