How does United Way use the funds given to United Way itself and its Community Impact Fund?
A. After considerable research by expert staff and volunteers, the United Way Board of Directors has invested the $22 million raised for the Community Impact Fund in the 2007-08 Campaign as follows: $11 million was awarded in grants of general operating support to 137 community agencies across the region and another $10.8 million in community investments directed towards specific projects and initiatives. The result of a competitive process open to more than 9,000 non-profits throughout the region, this slate of investments is aimed at advancing the United Way Agenda for Community Solutions (see Appendix 1). By delivering on this agenda, United Way is ensuring that donor dollars will be invested in achieving concrete results – through defined, evidence-based strategies for change – that will achieve lasting solutions to a tightly focused set of pressing problems in our region. The priority goals and strategies set forth in the Agenda for Community Solutions are focused on the root caus
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