Mission: United Way of Aiken County lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good. In 2008, United Way World Wide initiated a 10-year program designed to achieve the following goals by 2018: improve education, and cut the number of high school dropouts in half; help people achieve financial stability, and get 1.9 million working families on the road to economic independence; and promote healthy lives, and increase by one-third the number of youth and adults who are healthy and avoid risky behaviors. (Less)

United Way of Aiken County is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 1956, and donations are tax-deductible.