Impact 2025
Celebrating 35 Years of Impact
Together, we’ve scaled impact across programs, research, and policy for 35 years. The totals that follow reflect the persistence, partnership, and measurable change you helped make possible from 2013–2025.
"Thanks to the work of advocates like Wendy Doyle at United WE, we know the administrative burden and complexities involved in licensing a child care program."
—Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, 2025 State of the State Address
Translating Numbers to Stories
Selected stories that bring our data to life, highlighting impact across programs, research, policy, and systems change. Read the full stories on our website.
Listening to the Evidence in Women’s Stories
WE Build & Women Entrepreneurs
Across construction sites and small businesses, women shared what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change. Their lived experiences reveal both the barriers in our systems and the solutions already taking shape.
When Evidence Becomes Action
Systems Change in Motion with Kansas Child Care Reform
In Kansas, research revealed a child care shortage hiding in plain sight. Women leaders turned that data into policy—and the state is now on track to add more child care slots in two years than in the previous fifteen.
Activating Leadership Across Missouri
Appointments Project Journey Groups
Women across Missouri moved from uncertainty to readiness through United WE’s Journey Groups—gaining the confidence, knowledge, and networks to step into civic leadership. What began as hesitation became a clear sense of belonging and responsibility to lead.
Child Care Providers Speak, and the Data Confirms it
Arkansas Child Care Licensing
In Arkansas, child care providers told a consistent story: the licensing system is necessary, but unnecessarily hard. Their voices now form the evidence base for practical, provider-informed policy reform.
