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United Way  

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  • United Way is the largest philanthropic organization and one of the most well-known nonprofit human service organizations in the United States. Each year the United Way operates a fund drive to obtain funding for its constituent service organizations in each community. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; United Way]

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