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OUR WORK
Advancing the
Common Good:
Creating Opportunities for a Better
Life for All
Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education
that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through
retirement, and good health.
That’s why United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a good
life:
Education – Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential
Income – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
Health – Improving People’s Health
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and
more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and
interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families
are financially stable, when people are healthy.
United Way’s goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the
underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the
change. It takes everyone in our community working together to create a
brighter future.
UNITED WAY
IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE
In addition to our annual
fundraising campaign, United Way is busy year-round with projects and services that
support
this vision for the future of Summit County.
Follow the links to learn
more.
• Mobilizing Community Assets
to Improve Lives
- Annual Campaign
- Community Investment Process
- Development Fund for New Programs
- Federal Emergency Food & Shelter Fund Distribution
- Focus on Community Impact Priorities
- Gifts In Kind
- Help Affiliated Agencies do more of what they do and do it better
- Program Evaluation
• Public Policy/Advocacy
- 211 Legislative Support
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Anti-Bullying Policy for Organizations -
developed by United Way of Summit County's Children & Families Impact
Council
- Issue Endorsements
- Ohio Affordable Housing Initiative
- Partner with Ohio United Way
- Payday Lending Cap Advocacy
• Developing Community
Initiatives
- Born Learning
- Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
- Greater Akron Remembrance Coalition
- Healthy Connections – Access to Care
- Minority Health Roundtable
- Neighborhood Leadership Development
- Offender Re-entry Initiative
• Championing Volunteerism
- Corporate Volunteer Council
- Day of Action
- Done in a Day Projects
- Project Blueprint
- Read To Me Day
- Recruit and Refer Volunteers
- Volunteer Celebration
- Volunteer Management Training
• Expertise on Community Needs
and Assets
- Brown Bag Seminars
- Summit County 2010 Project Alignment
- Thriving Communities Needs and Assets Assessment
- Union Community Activist Network Training
• Finding Solutions to
Community Problems
United Way of Summit County works to advance our common good in
Summit County through Education, Income and Health services to:
EDUCATION: Ensure that children are ready to
succeed in school and are on track
to become productive adults, as well as nurturing safe and
self-sufficient families.
INCOME: Build an environment where individuals, seniors and families are
provided the means to live independently and productively, and to
achieve financial stability.
HEALTH: Ensure that individuals, seniors and families have access to temporary
emergency services. Promote the overall mental and physical wellness of individuals and
families in our communities.
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