UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY

Ready Children Impact Council
Result 1 - All children grow up in safe, stable and nurturing environments
Result 2 - All children are healthy in mind, body and spirit
Result 3 - All children are curious learners progressing towards their full potential

Successful Students Impact Council
Result 1 - All young people are actively engaged in their communities and prepared for the 21st Century workforce
Result 2 - All young people have resource-rich environments with prepared and engaged adults to support them in reaching their full potential

Strong Individuals and Families Impact Council
Result 1 - All individuals and families are stable, flourish economically, reach their full potential and maintain a quality of life free of discrimination

Ready Children
Result 1
1. Expand access to child and/or adult mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence and/or respite care services
2. Increase parent/caregiver knowledge & understanding of age-appropriate developmental milestones through preventive programs
3. Utilize faith-based networks, educational institutions, hospitals, community agencies and business cmnty to educate cmnty on prevention & intervention
Result 2
1. Increase access to prenatal care for at-risk mothers in segments of the cmnty where there is an indication of need
Result 3
1. Increase and maintain the number of quality early childcare slots with priority for children 0 to 3
2. Partner with early childhood education centers to create a culture of child-centered and developmentally appropriate practices
3. Expand dual-credit programs focused on earning an Associate of Arts in Child Development at the high school level
4. Conduct early developmental social/emotional screenings for more children 0 to 5
5. Increase parent/caregiver knowledge & understanding of age-appropriate developmental milestones through prevention programs
6. Initiate a "Kinder Camp" for children about to enter Kindergarten, which helps decrease summer learning loss and transition to the norms of a school environment before they start the school year
Successful Students
Result 1
1. Increase the number of diverse & evidence-based reading programs for children and adults
2. Increase the number of engaging, culturally appropriate, innovative & relevant math activities for youth in grades 5-8
3. Create & increase the number of participation in/access to high quality reengagement programs for disconnected youth
4. Identify, reach & connect vulnerable youth to appropriate & relevant support services
Result 2
1. Create an innovative "transition camp" for youth entering middle and high school & their guardians to decrease future absenteeism and transition to the norms of a new school environment
2. Increase student & guardian ability to overcome obstacles to attendance
3. Increase number of evidence-based programs that a) identify students with behavioral issues, b) assess needs for behavioral support & c) address needs based on assessment
4. Develop advocacy programs for students referred for disciplinary/behavior reasons & secure srvcs for families
Strong Individuals & Families
Result 1
1. Provide and/or build capacity for orgs that offer education and workforce dvpt to clients at or below 200% FPL, 2) between 200-300% of FPL, & 3) beyond 300% of FPL
4. Build an awareness campaign that communicates wage and opportunity disparities between women of color earners and Anglo male earners, focused on the broader economic impact this disparity has on Bexar County overall
5. Provide and/or build capacity for orgs that offer education and workforce dvpt to women of color
6. Expand prevention/intervention srvcs that interrupt the cycle of family violence for individuals and families

Impact Councils: Ready Children, Successful Students, and Strong Individuals and Families; will focus on “Collective Impact,” which brings together groups of partners from different sectors to work on a common agenda for solving specific social problems using a structured form of collaboration.

The work began by gathering information about the opportunities in our community to generate impact on the complex social challenges we face. Those opportunities are narrowed to specific goals or results that we intend to achieve, followed by the identification of metrics to help quantify what it means to achieve our goals. We have developed strategies that define a series of actions or activities that must be in place if we are to successfully achieve our goals. Programs will be funded through a competitive RFP process that will implement the needed actions and activities.

The Impact Councils will continue to collect and measure information about the areas we are working to impact, observe new conditions and accordingly adjust our strategies and actions.

Our United Way mission is to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. Through our past, present and future work together to accomplish this objective, we’re able to bring greater value to the community. Complex problem solving and change at scale can only be accomplished when people work together toward common goals to live united.

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County has adopted a Results Based Accountability method to address the complex needs of children, youth, individuals and families. Our mission to build the capacity of others involves a set of results that include partners aligning to impact community indicators. Results Based Accountability is not new and has been successfully applied in San Antonio with other initiatives, like the Eastside Promise Neighborhood initiative. This discipline allowed United Way and its partners to build upon the strong foundation already established to increase the opportunity to align and contribute with the end in mind.

We have finalized partnership agreement negotiations with agencies that were approved for funding by the UWSA Board of Directors.

Two years ago, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County embarked on a journey to transform the way we invest donors' gifts made to our community. Each previously funded program provided significant value yet operated largely independently from one another--known as an isolated impact funding model. Beginning July 1, 2019, we began supporting a collective impact model, which will fund strategies instead of individual program. We are collaborating with our partners in government and in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Over the past year, community volunteers spent 1,000s of hours developing and now are integrating strategies to help children, students, individuals and families become stable and thrive. Our Impact Council teams will meet quarterly and our program staff will meet monthly to review progress, data, performance measures and impact.