Local Love

What does local love look like transparent

Local love is every act that we do to make our region just a little bit better. It’s lending a hand to someone in need. It’s posting a photo of our beautiful communities. It’s organizing a volunteer event with your friends.

United Way Simcoe Muskoka is dedicated to spreading local love throughout our communities. We do it through raising awareness of local issues and making them #UNIGNORABLE. We do it by funding critical programs from Huntsville to the Town of Blue Mountains to Bradford. We do it by highlighting great members and organizations that are doing great work right here at home. Most importantly, we do it by filling the gaps and making sure no one has to face poverty alone.

We invite you to subscribe to our newsletter, read about what’s going on in Simcoe Muskoka and help spread your own local love. See what we’re up to and how United Way Simcoe Muskoka is driving change in our communities.

Spread Some Local Love

  • April 14-20 in National Volunteer Week.  It is estimated that almost 8 million people across Ontario are actively volunteering in their community. By lending support to charities like your United Way, volunteers are the backbone of the not-for-profit sector.  ...

  • When you give to your United Way, you are making more than a charitable donation. You are moving people from poverty to possibility. You are inspiring children and youth to be all that they can be. You are creating stronger communities across Simcoe and Muskoka....

  • Last year, our Board of Directors approved a new Strategic Plan  to act as a compass for us over a three-year period. Developed with input from a wide variety of community members, this plan identified the following four strategic themes as mission critical for your United Way as a charity: build capacity to meet the needs of the community, increase awareness of United Way Simcoe Muskoka's impact on the communities we serve, strengthen communities through strategic funding and partnership opportunities, affect long-term systemic change through advocacy and education....