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Live & Share Your Passion: Retire United

Wanna make a difference in the community on your own terms but don’t know how to match your interests and skills with the needs in our community? Retire United was designed with you in mind.

Steering To Exceed Member Expectations

The WLC Steering Committee met in January to set a new and exciting course for our future. The packed agenda included creative and strategic brainstorms, resulting in an update to both our “mission” and “focus” statements.

Gen U Member Spotlight: Christina Hawbaker

Get to know a young professional leader in your community!

A Home Makes All the Difference

For Donovan, 47, a man used to making his own way in the world, the apartment provides basic needs: shelter, a mattress to sleep on, a small kitchen, bathroom and a welcome sense of safety. Not that Donovan has much idle time to rest these days. He travels 2-3 hours by bus each way to his job at an e-commerce fulfillment center where he works nights and happily takes on extra shifts when needed. His goal is to fully reclaim the self-sufficient life he once knew.

Have Fun While Filing Your Taxes

Authored by a VITA Program Coordinator from UW Southwest Alabama.

Turn Passion Into Action

What difference can a person make in a couple of hours? How about a day, a year…or five years? Generation United member Farzana Scofield, shares how Generation United helped her make a real difference in our community.

What Is Project Connect?
Read Across America…With Your Pets!

Read Across America is an annual event created by the NEA that coincides with Seuss’s birthday, March 2. The program provides children the resources and motivation to keep on reading every day throughout the year.

Launch Students into Success-osphere & Beyond

Babies born today could graduate in the class of 2034. When should education begin to prepare these children to meet the 21st Century challenges that await them? The answer is now. Readiness to enter school, and reach each learning milestone thereafter, starts at birth.

“Hechale Ganas Mijo” (Work Hard Son)

I am a testimony to the difference a caring mentor can make.
I grew up in an amazing family who worked hard to ensure school was a priority. They were my first mentors.
My parents taught us that hard work and focus would provide a pathway to greater success. I remember the consejos from Ama y Apa. One I heard almost every day was, “Hechale Ganas Mijo.”

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