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United Way of Southeast Mississippi Offers Online Tax Filing Tool For Free
More than 1.3 Million MyFreeTaxes® Filers Have Used MyFreeTaxes since 2009 'Tis the season to file those taxes - and…
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United Way Receives 'Largest Donation' from Education Association To Date
Pictured above from left: UWSEMS Director of Community Impact Amy Lyon, Hattiesburg Public Schools CFO Jennifer Clanton…
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5 Really Good Reasons to Enter the United Way $100K Payday Raffle
Every year at this time, United Way of Southeast Mississippi offers members of the public a life-changing opportunity…
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Side by side of 211 operator and caller
Nine Things You Didn’t Know About 211
Everyone knows about 9-1-1. But fewer people know about 211, the nationwide service for non-emergency life challenges.…
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What it Takes to Feed Our Community
United Way is working to ensure that everyone has access to healthy, affordable food. Imagine if households connected…
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Creating Change, Together
It’s been a tough few years. Too many people are struggling - paying the weekly grocery store bill, making up for the…
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Served, Sacrificed, Yet Struggling: More than 46,000 Mississippi Veterans Living in Financial Hardship 
New ALICE report also reveals nearly half of veterans in Hattiesburg and surrounding counties are financially insecure…
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United Way of Southeast Mississippi recognized for work in supporting early school success
Campaign for Grade-Level Reading awards local nonprofit Pacesetter honor   HATTIESBURG, MISS. – The Campaign for Grade-…
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New Research: More than Half of All People with Disabilities in Mississippi are Living in Financial Hardship
New report reveals that federal poverty data significantly undercounts how many people with disabilities are…
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Ewell is New Director for Volunteer Southeast Mississippi
HATTIESBURG, MISS. – United Way of Southeast Mississippi (UWSEMS) has welcomed Clarissa Ewell as the new director of…
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