2026-2027 Funded Partners
Funded partners help the United Way advance its mission of enhancing the quality of life in our community by helping those in need. While we fund a variety of initiatives directly, our work wouldn't be complete without funding programs across Monongalia and Preston counties through our Funded Partners. Together, we are able to build a stronger and better community by developing resources and creating partnerships to empower individuals to improve their lives.
When you see the "United Way Funded Partner" logo in these organizations' entries, on flyers, and at the bottom of websites, you can trust they've gone through a rigorous "Standards of Accountability" process to become one of our Funded Partners. Find out more about our funding process here.
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Augusta Development Corporation
The Home Ownership Center provides full-cycle housing counseling services designed to support individuals and families at every stage of the housing continuum. Primarily serves low to moderate-income households.
Funded Programs: Monongalia and Preston Housing Counseling
www.augustapineswv.com | 304-212-8575
Catholic Charities West Virginia
These programs assist households seeking help with utility or rent payments by connecting them with a Program Assistant who determines eligibility and verifies need — such as an eviction notice or utility termination — before CCWVa pledges support toward the bill, with final payment contingent upon the remaining balance being secured.
Funded Programs: Monongalia County Outreach Office, Preston County Outreach Office
Christian Help
The Christian Help Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) program supports stability of households in, and to avoid, crisis situations.
Funded Programs: Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) Direct Assistance Costs
www.motownchristianhelp.com | 304-296-0221
Community Kitchen Inc.
The Community Kitchen, Inc. provides free nutritious lunches each weekday and weekend meal bags for those in our community who are food insecure.
Funded Programs: Feeding Our Neighbors with Weekday Lunches & Weekend Bags
www.morgantowncommunitykitchen.com | 304-209-5465
Food for Preston
Food for Preston fights hunger in Preston County, WV by securing food, funding, and volunteers for the backpack program and 16 food pantries serving Preston County students and families in need.
Funded Programs: Backpack Program, Food Pantry Program
www.foodforpreston.org | 304-276-9447
Friends of the Cheat
For more than 30 years, educational programming has been central to Friends of the Cheat's work. We host immersive school field days with hands-on learning stations focused on water quality, snorkeling, and local ecology. Through the Snorkel Club, participants explore the river's "underwater classroom," helping inspire the next generation of conservationists.
Funded Program: Cheat River Watershed Explorers
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) is our research-based learning framework, developed in conjunction with Tufts University. The GSLE is a one-of-a-kind, proven leadership development program that pairs girls with strong, caring role models and mentors who prepare them to take the lead from age 5-18 and into adulthood.
Funded Program: Girl Scout Leadership Experience
Girls on the Run
The Girls on the Run is an afterschool program that serves girls in grades 3-8. The program combines physical activity with evidence-based social and emotional learning lessons designed to help girls build confidence, develop healthy relationships, and strengthen decision-making skills.
Funded Program: Girls on the Run
www.gotrncwv.org | 681-320-3867
Lauren's Wish Addiction Triage Center
The L.I.G.H.T. Initiative (Linking Individuals & Groups to Hope & Treatment) strengthens and expands Lauren's Wish's existing outreach efforts by providing a more structured, focused approach to prevention education and community engagement in Monongalia and Preston counties.
Funded Program: Linking Individuals & Groups to Hope & Treatment
laurenswish.org | 304-241-4000
Legal Aid of West Virginia
The Domestic Violence Assistance Project provides legal help at protective order hearings in Family Court to domestic violence survivors in Monongalia and Preston counties.
Funded Program: Domestic Violence Assistance Project at LAWV
Libera, Inc.
SOAR is a 12-month career and resiliency accelerator for young women in West Virginia, ages 18-24 in need of support transitioning to adulthood. Based in Morgantown, the program provides personalized support to help participants build long-term pathways to success in life and work.
Funded Program: SOAR Mentoring Program and Mental Health Support
www.liberawv.com | 304-241-1061
Literacy Volunteers of Monongalia and Preston Counties
Free, one-on-one tutoring that's flexible to fit into our learners' busy lives. Sessions can happen online or in-person, and learners get to choose when and where they meet with their tutor, including weekends or after work hours.
Funded program: ProLiteracy Tutoring Program
Milan Puskar Health Right
Milan Puskar Health Right is a primary care clinic that provides quality, no-cost health care to uninsured or underinsured low-income residents of North Central West Virginia and promotes health through direct service, education, and advocacy.
Funded programs: Primary Care, Mental Health
www.mphealthright.org | 304-292-8234
Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) Program at MCCAC works to ensure that child abuse victims in Monongalia County have access to services that have been shown to build resiliency by providing the child and family with social and emotional support.
Funded Programs: Child Advocacy Center Program
www.moncocac.org | 304-598-0344
Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels
Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels prepares and delivers hot, healthy, and diet specific meals five days a week to clients, regardless of age, living situation or income who have difficulty shopping for food or preparing healthy meals.
Funded Programs: Client Support and Development
www.morgantownwvmow.org | 304-599-1954
Morgantown Area Youth Services Project Inc.
The project provides intervention counseling services, social services, and recovery advocacy to high-risk youth and adults/families struggling with substance abuse/addiction.
Funded Programs: Delinquency and Substance Use Disorder Intervention Program
Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership School
Meeting the need in our community for tuition-free classes as well as classes offered in alternative locations off campus. Mountain SOL is an outdoor education school emphasizing stewardship and youth-led leadership.
Funded Programs: Open SOL
mountainsol.org | 304-290-5917
Mountaineer Area Robotics
Mountaineer Area Robotics (MARS) is a community based organization that helps fill the gap exposing WV students at all grade levels to high quality STEM activities (through outreach activities, drones, and the FIRST Robotics Competition).
Funded Programs: STEM Outreach, Robot Construction
On Eagles' Wings Therapeutic Horsemanship
On Eagles' Wings Therapeutic Horsemanship provides hope and healing with the partnership of horses for those with physical, cognitive and psychosocial challenges.
Funded Programs: Therapeutic Horsemanship
www.oneagleswingswv.org | 304-288-9748
Pace Enterprises
Project SEARCH is a business-led, year-long transition program serving young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) during their final year of school eligibility.
Funded Programs: Project SEARCH
www.paceenterprises.org | 304-983-7223
Preston County Senior Citizens
The Home Delivered Meals Program provides five nutritious meals each week to approximately 120 seniors throughout the county, helping them maintain their health and independence. In addition to meal delivery, the program serves as an important welfare check, as drivers are required to place eyes on seniors during delivery.
Funded Programs: Home Delivered Meals Program
prestonseniors.org | 304-329-0464
Preston County Workshop
This program will support ISO 9001 (Quality Management Systems Requirements) staff certification training, ensuring employees meet national manufacturing quality standards. Through this program, participants gain industry-recognized manufacturing skills, increase independence and financial stability, and help expand sustainable manufacturing jobs and local economic activity while supplying high-quality, environmentally responsible products to a national client.
Funded Programs: Workforce Development Initiative
www.pcsworkshop.com | 304-864-6446
Scott's Run Settlement House
The Backpack Feeding Program provides extra food over the weekend for children who may not have access to a reliable or sufficient food source.
Funded Programs: Backpack Feeding Program
Spark! Imagination and Science Center
Spark! Imagination and Science Center's STEAM-based Education Programs get kids excited about science and the arts, teach fundamental science concepts, and build skills that children will need in school and future careers.
Funded Programs: STEAM-based Educational Programs
www.sparkwv.org | 304-292-4646
The Salvation Army
Hope Cafe Feeding Minstry and Social Services Assistance program at The Salvation Army Morgantown Corps were established to combat hunger and provide crisis relief for individuals and families struggling to meet basic needs.
Funded Programs: Hope Cafe Feeding Program
www.salvationarmypotomac.org/Morgantown/ | 304-296-3525
WV Coalition to End Homelessness
WVCEH's Transitional Housing program West Run REACH (Rapid Entry and Access to Community Housing) takes a comprehensive and client-centered approach to providing housing stability, with a focus on long-term well-being.
Funded Program: West Run REACH Emergency Housing Case Management Services