We hope you will be able to join us as we celebrate all the hard work and accomplishments of so many in our community this past year.
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On the morning of Tuesday, December 11th, 2012, more than 120 people representing nonprofit organizations, government, business, and other sectors from throughout WNC attended the 2012 Legislative Briefing at the AB Tech Enka campus. Allan Morse, United Way Advocacy Committee chair, moderated the program.
Earlier this year we hosted a half dozen community conversations that focused on disadvantaged youth and what gets in their way of having a chance at a good life. We defined disadvantaged youth as teens who had dropped out of high school and were unemployed. Many of those who joined the conversations were in their teens or twenties.
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe announces today the beginning of its 2013-2014 community investment process, which will advance the work of United Way’s Education, Income and Health focus areas.
The competitive grant process is open to programs with results clearly aligned with the community-level results United Way seeks in Education, Income and Health. Other requirements include:
This Community Wants Good Public Education
Recently I wrote about 4 ways to keep public education alive. Here is a slightly different slant on the public interest in public education. Education has been one of the most significant messages from the Community Conversations we have been hosting.
The 2012 elections have ended and one of the big questions is what the results mean for public education. So now is a good time for us to take charge of what we want public education to look like. What can we control?
If you’re looking for a way to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, please think about giving to United Way Hurricane Sandy Recovery Fund. With leadership from United Way of New York City, United Ways along the Eastern Seaboard have established the fund to address near-term and long-term recovery needs of communities most affected by the hurricane.
If this is still the land of opportunity (and I surely hope it is), shouldn’t every young person have a chance to go to college? Even if we accept that not everyone is suited for a college education, how do we know when to make that determination? When they are in middle school? In 3rd grade? And who gets to decide? Teachers, parents, youth?
I imagine most of us know people who:
The data is in: our 2011-2012 investments in Education, Income and Health yielded a return on investment of 120%! We measure a return on investment not in dollars, but in lives changed for the better. From our investment of $2.7 million, we had expected to see 59,000 people improve their lives in measurable ways in the areas of Education, Income and Health. When the results came in, more than 71,000 people had improved their lives.
