United Way California Capital Region
Creating a more socially just Capital Region will help reduce local poverty.
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
For 100 years, United Way California Capital Region has brought people together to fight poverty by building stronger, healthier and more compassionate communities.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Literacy Tutoring
United Way California Capital Region is partnering with BookNook to provide virtual literacy tutoring to students in need of support. If kids aren’t reading at grade level by 4th grade, they will have a hard time keeping up across multiple subjects for years to come. Having a consistent positive adult role model, like a tutor, can improve children’s confidence and performance in all school subjects.
United Way's Women United
This group of dynamic women is dedicated to ensuring local foster youth are prepared for a successful transition to independence and ready for success in life. Women United members raise money for foster youth programs, lead life skills workshops and volunteer to make lasting change in Capital Region.
United Way's Young Leaders Society
United Way's Young Leaders Society (YLS) brings together young professionals who are passionate about ending poverty in the Sacramento Region.
Digital Devices and Connectivity
With more than 24 million unconnected households nationwide, the digital divide disproportionately affects minority and low-income populations. According to the Federal Communications Commission, 35 percent of adults who do not use broadband at home are older, poorer, less educated, more likely to be a racial or ethnic minority, and more likely to have a disability than those with a home connection.
United Way is working with community partners to offer:
1) Free hotspots (covered for a full year)
2) Free broadband for up to 200 people for a year (via Comcast Internet Essentials or AT&T low-cost internet plan)
3) Refurbished desktop and/or all-in-one computer
4) Digital literacy training and other important learning resources
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
The Dolly Parton Imagination Library inspires a love of reading and ensures children receive new books every month until they turn 5-years-old building a home library for FREE.
Foster Youth Support
To increase the likelihood of self-sufficiency after aging out of the foster care system, our Foster Youth Support program with San Juan Unified School District provides academic intervention and supportive services to local K-8 foster youth to assist in increasing self-sufficiency and preparing them for success later in life.
KinderCamp
PROVIDES SCHOOL READINESS TO PREPARE INCOMING KINDERGARTNERS WHO DID NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND PRESCHOOL
Run in classrooms on an elementary school site each summer, KinderCamp students participate ina variety of learning opportunities focused on increasing skills in math, literacy, social interactions, problem-solving and cause/effect. Every day a child attends, the child returns home with a brand-new book. Children also receive a healthy lunch, participate in a weekly Kids Farmers Market and receive hygiene education.
Guaranteed Income
We are proud to be a part of the nationwide movement offering guaranteed income programs for historically undervalued and under-invested communities. The first of its kind in the Capital Region, our Guaranteed Income program promotes economic security, helps residents remain housed and pays for necessities like food and childcare.
Housing Navigation
United Ways Housing Navigation program utilizes your Medi-Cal membership (through California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal or CalAIM) to assist families and individuals with housing instability, deposit assistance and sustainability services.
Free Tax Preparation
The Free Tax Preparation program helps thousands of families receive close to $10 million in refunds money that goes directly back into United Ways five-county service region.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We have found one place in each community where we can reach the most families in need – school. School is Square One for ending family poverty because education is the great equalizer. It opens the door to jobs, resources and skills that help people not just survive, but thrive.
Our Square One approach provides a continuum of services aimed at ending poverty for local families, starting with education. From providing books to preschoolers for their own home library and kindergarten readiness for those who didn’t have the opportunity to attend preschool to a reading tutoring program for grade-schoolers and helping emancipated foster youth with financial literacy and support, your local United Way is dedicated to improving the opportunities for under-resourced children to ensure they have the educational foundation to succeed as adults.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our Square One approach aims to end poverty in the Capital Region by:
1) Helping Kids Excel in School
2) Investing in Families
3) Strengthening Schools
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
United Way has dedicated staff working on each issue area, soliciting community input, reviewing research and consulting with experts in the field. United Way plays the unique and critical role of convening all of the stakeholders on a particular issue and identifying how we can leverage each other's work, investments, and skills to create a larger impact in the community. We also utilize evaluation and data collection tools data reporting system for our partners who are implementing programs. This allows us to review reports and monitor our investments in the community to ensure the greatest progress possible. Strong community partnerships with key stakeholders, government agencies, community-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, policymakers and the business community make it possible for United Way to lead or influence the success of social change solutions.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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United Way California Capital Region
Board of directorsas of 09/23/2024
Ruth Miller
Todd Habets
JET Infrastructure
Kim Hewitt
IBM
Carolyn Mullins
Chevelle Newsome
California State University, Sacramento
Richard Pan
Randy Rojas
DC 16/ Local 1237
Joaquin Razo
Blue Zones Project
Vanessa Sheared
Closing the Gap
Michael Simonds
Nationwide Insurance
Allen Taylor
Carolyn Turpin
Mark Ullrich
Ullrich Delevati CPAs
David Wilson
Grant Bennett Associates
Ruth Miller
David Bowen
Steve Lins
SMUD
Tahira Cunningham
Bivium Partners
Eric Grabin
SAFE Credit Union
Beverley "Babs" Sandeen
Sacramento Yolo Port
September Hargrove
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Amy Krause
Health Net
Steven Lins
SMUD
John Petrovich
Deloitte
Emily Santanelli
USI Insurance Services
Oryango Snell
California Lawyers Association
Robert "BJ" Snowden
American River College
Brett Studholme
U.S. Bank
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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Leadership
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