Community Impact initiatives are efforts explicitly designed to improve lives by mobilizing strategic resources to bring about lasting improvements in community conditions. The United Way is playing a defined role that builds on its organizational strengths and relationships to contribute to the initiative’s success. A strategic community impact initiative:

• Aligns with organizational priorities and focuses on an issue
• Is a partnership where partners are sharing responsibility and accountability for the initiative’s success
• Is outcome focused and results oriented
• Pursues community change by targeting specific improvements and benefits


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