Last year, 1,178 men, women, and children found comfort and shelter through United
Way funded programs.
The United Way of the Piedmont’s Community Impact Agenda is intended to focus
the organization’s financial and volunteer resources on our community’s most pressing
needs. In keeping with our mission to increase the organized capacity for people
to care for one another, everything the United Way of the Piedmont does is rooted
in this agenda.
Councils have been established to oversee community investment and community
initiatives within six specific priority areas. A vision statement, focused initiative
areas, and community indicators are outlined in each priority area to guide the
councils’ decisions. In order for programs within non-profit organizations to
receive investment from the Community Impact Fund, they must demonstrate their
fit with the Community Impact Agenda and their impact on related community indicators.
A program’s impact may improve quality of life by positively impacting community
conditions (i.e. proactively improving community wide or population specific performance
on a particular indicator). A program may also impact an indicator by providing
support services to those affected by community conditions (i.e. reacting to an
individual or group faced with a crisis or issue). It is up to the six Councils
and ultimately the United Way’s Board of Directors to support an appropriate balance
between investment in proactive versus reactive programming.
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