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W&W-AFCO Steel Donates $100,000 to Help United Way Partner Agencies Meet Increased Needs Due to COVID-19

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City-based steel fabricating company W&W-AFCO Steel announced a $100,000 donation to the United Way of Central Oklahoma COVID-19 Response Fund. Established to increase resilience among vulnerable […]

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Gives $100,000 to United Way of Central Oklahoma COVID-19 Response Fund

OKLAHOMA CITY – Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores announced today the company will make a $100,000 donation to the United Way of Central Oklahoma COVID-19 Response Fund. The donation […]

Luke & Becky Corbett

A Shared Belief in Strong Family and Community Values When Luke Corbett and his wife, Becky, arrived in 1985, they discovered Oklahoma was a lot like their home state of […]

Eskridge Family Shares Longtime Commitment to Community, United Way

The Eskridge family has shared much through the years. Ed Eskridge, his wife, Barbara and their two children, Lynn and Frank, have shared the family businesses, their pride in Oklahoma […]

Jeanne Hoffman

These days, Jeanne Hoffman Smith spends a lot of her time thinking about time. There’s that time that she married Boston W. Smith, just two weeks after her twentieth birthday; […]

United Way of Central Oklahoma gets matching funds for #GivingTuesday

OKLAHOMA CITY – United Way of Central Oklahoma will kick off the giving season by celebrating #GivingTuesday, on November 27, with matching funds from local and national organizations. This year […]

United Way of Central Oklahoma Announces $17 Million Fundraising Goal During Campaign Kickoff

OKLAHOMA CITY – United Way of Central Oklahoma kicked off its 2018 annual campaign this morning and announced its fundraising goal of $17 million! Dollars raised will be invested into […]

The Clark Family

Agency site visits are by far, hands down, 100% – and every other cliché you can think of – my FAVORITE part of the Community Investment Process for the United Way of Central Oklahoma (UWCO). This is where you get to see the agencies in action. You get to experience “their world” for a couple hours to fully understand how that agency impacts our community. Unless for circumstances beyond my control, I don’t EVER miss site visit days. (Because they

United Way of Central Oklahoma Announces 2018 Campaign Cabinet

OKLAHOMA CITY – United Way of Central Oklahoma is pleased to announce Campaign Cabinet volunteers who will lead the annual fundraising campaign. The cabinet is comprised of community leaders who […]

United Way of Central Oklahoma Kicks off Annual Fundraising Campaign

The United Way of Central Oklahoma kicked off its 2017 campaign with more than 700 attendees enjoying a free pancake breakfast at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark earlier today. Business and […]