"CAN"paign Food Drive
Empty Bowls Hattiesburg
Choose a unique handcrafted bowl, then enjoy a simple lunch of soup, bread, dessert & beverage from favorite local restaurants, all for only $30.
Your keepsake bowl is a reminder of all the EMPTY BOWLS in our community!
Funds raised through EMPTY BOWLS HATTIESBURG benefit the Edwards Street Fellowship Center food pantry, which provides nonperishable food to nearly 2,000 hungry & food-insecure Pine Belt households every month.
Hope Community Collective Celebration of Hope
Celebration of Hope
You're invited to our annual banquet as we pause to celebrate the life-changing difference that HOPE is making for families across the Pine Belt! We'll enjoy appetizers, dinner and a program including real life accounts of transformation and second chances. Our featured guest speaker will be MS Attorney General Lynn Fitch.
We'll honor the generous partners, dedicated volunteers, and faithful supporters that have helped to bring our organization to where it is today.
United Way of SEMS for hosts a free book fair for Boys and Girls Club
United Way of Southeast Mississippi's SOAR United program hosted a free book fair for afterschool students at The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Hattiesburg. The mission of SOAR United is to increase book ownership, accelerate reading growth, and expand high-quality literacy programming in our community. This book fair provided at least 3 brand new books for the children just as they were getting ready to enter spring break.
United Way of Southeast Mississippi Announces Pacesetter Campaign
HATTIESBURG, MISS. - United Way of Southeast Mississippi kicked off the United Way Pacesetter Campaign on July 11, 2023, with a networking event held at Bourbon on Front.
What you should know about 2-1-1
Everyone knows about 9-1-1. But fewer people know about 2-1-1, the nationwide service for non-emergency life challenges. The kind everyone faces at some point in their lives, when you have no idea where to turn but sure could use some extra help.
Funded in part by local United Ways, 211 is a vital service that connects millions of people each year to help in their communities. Here is what you should know
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 to the electrical grid received varying amounts of power based on their income level or neighborhood. What if families in under-resourced or rural areas couldn’t access enough power to keep their lights on every day?
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
HATTIESBURG, MISS. – They’ve served and sacrificed for our country yet nearly one-third — 31% — of Mississippi’s 150,479 veterans struggle to afford the basics, according to a new report from United Way of Southeast Mississippi and its research partner United For ALICE.