At Greater Ottawa County United Way, our mission is . . .
To improve the quality of life for all Ottawa County residents by identifying pressing community challenges and focusing our collective power and resources to address those needs.
United Way has been making a difference in
OttawaCounty
for nearly a century. Known in the 1920s as United Fund or Community Chest,
annual fund drives to address community needs were a fixture of life in many
communities in
OttawaCounty.
In the 1960s
Grand Haven and
Holland joined
Grand
Rapids and
Detroit as the first
communities in
Michigan
to form a
United Way.
In 2000, four United Ways—Tri Cities Area (Grand Haven, Spring Lake and
Ferrysburg), Northeast Ottawa, Holland, and Zeeland—united to form Greater
Ottawa County United Way.
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