UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Community Impact
Community Impact is the work of the Organization intended to create sustained changes in health and human services. It includes community-wide, collaborative planning and problem resolution activities and the operation of community-wide initiatives and direct service programs. A key component of Community Impact is the investment of funds raised through the Annual Campaign to support health and human services.
Ready. Set. Read!
Ready. Set. READ! is a collaboration among United Way of Berks County, the educational and business communities and community organizations that will ensure reading proficiency for students by the end of third grade. The collective work focuses on four key strategies: implement school-readiness activities for pre-school children to support language and pre-literacy development in young children, connect tutors with early grade students needing supplemental instruction, engage parents to promote literacy and mobilize the community around this work.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Key goals for 2021-23 Strategic Plan:
Increase our organization's community impact
Grow organization's donor base and donor/volunteer engagement
Increase organization's efficiency
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Increase impact:
- Refresh and expand early learning initiative
- Strengthen collective impact work
- Invest our one-time major grant effectively, collaboratively
- Increase investments to organizations committed to DEI
Grow donor base and donor/volunteer engagment
- Expand fundraising efforts
- Conduct Comprehensive Data Analysis on fundraising growth and efficiency
- Relaunch Leadership Berks (Community Leadership initiative)
- Align volunteer leadership initiatives and volunteer activities to organizational objectives
- Demonstrate impact through marketing approaches and channels
- Increase efffective digital marketing
Increase efficiency:
- Evaluate/implement appropriate technology
- Increase DEI practices
- Staff and volunteer leadership succession planning
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY
Board of directorsas of 02/09/2023
Ms. Joanne Judge
Stevens & Lee, PC
Term: 2020 - 2022
Mr. Rehr
Emerald Advisers, LLC
Term: 2020 - 2022
Sara Aulestia
Cambridge-Lee Industries, LLC
Pamela Barbey
Community Volunteer
Dave Capitano
Baker Tilley
Ramiro Carbonell
Stevens & Lee, PC
Bruce Cole
Alcon Research, LTD
Peter Connors
Connors Investor Services, Inc.
Santina Connors
Weidenhammer Systems Corporation
Kelley Crozier, MD
Reading Hospital Rehab at Wyomissing
Michael Duff
Penske Transportation Solutions
Steven Fisher
RKL, LLP
Scott Fries
UGI Corporation
Sara Galosi
Alcon Research, LTD
Mike Goonan
Boscov's Distribution Center
Patrick Hackman
Berks County Intermediate Unit
Barbara Hall
Community Volunteer
Bradley Hall
Community Volunteer
Alisa Harris
UGI Utilities, Inc.
Joseph Hartz
UGI
Kim Hippert-Eversgerd
Fulton Bank
Jason Hoerr
Albright College
Robert Hoffmaster
United Labor Council of Reading & Berks County
Michael Krut
Penske Transportation Solutions
Craig Looney
Reading Area Community College
Khalid Mumin
Reading School District
Joni Naugle
Naugle Associates, LLC
Rendy Ortiz
Alcon Research, LTD
Craig Perrotty
Stevens & Lee, PC
Sue Perrotty
Community Volunteer
Francis Post
Tompkins Vist
Robert Pratt
Carpenter Technology Corporation
Daniel Sansary
Home Ownership Center Manager
Michael Schmidtlein
EnerSys
David Shaffer
EnerSys
Shelley Shaffer
Community Volunteer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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