United Way of Franklin County

1. To create easier channels of community giving so that people can find a way to give back.\\n2. To Increase Volunteerism in Franklin County by providing opportunities for people to connect, and meaningful volunteer activities.\\n3. To create a united voice for effective Advocacy in Franklin County, encouraging people to use their voice to impact communitywide issues.\\n4. To ease access of services to people in Franklin County.\\n5. To improve the quality of services offered in Franklin County.

1. Provide community level avenues of giving including campaign, fundraising events, gifting in kind, planned giving and opportunities that span the workplace, online giving, personal giving options and more.\\r\\n2. Provide and promote a wide range of volunteer opportunities including one day and long term commitments throughout the county, at our office, and through many of our partner agencies. Our opportunities are designed to allow people to engage their personal talents in meaningful ways so that they can become better connected to community.\\r\\n3. Providing and promoting channels of advocacy and education about community initiatives that people can learn about and support.

1. We have a network of volunteers that area already involved in giving activities, as well as the technical tools and relationships to connect people to giving at a community level.\\r\\n2. We maintain a wide range of projects for volunteerism throughout the community by using our knowledge of needs that exist through relationships with other non-profits in the community, as well as resources that are utilized by community members and need to be maintained. We have the network, technology and knowledge to connect people to projects and find technical assistance to support their work.\\r\\n3. By working with community leaders and community organizations we have been able to prioritize issues that impact local community health, education and the financial stability of families. We are able to work with community leaders, volunteers and people who want to make a difference, in order to find common ground solutions.

United Way of Franklin County continues to expand the reach of our campaign to include new business and individuals through giving channels.\\nUnited Way of Franklin County has increased volunteer engagement by adding additional events and increasing our outreach to include more active volunteers throughout the year. Over 6,550 volunteer hours were donated in 2018.\\nUnited Way of Franklin County actively tracks the 30 programs that are supported, following the success rates and achievements of clients within those programs through quarterly reporting.\\nPrograms are using agreed upon indicators.\\nWe continue to work with programs to receive more specific data to describe their outcomes.\\nWe continue to work toward ideas that will achieve better outcomes.