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UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
2008/2009 Program Funding Allocations
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Success By 6®: Providing Solid Foundations – This investment area consists of 12 programs totaling a $210,060 investment in providing solid foundations for children birth to age 6. United Way’s ultimate goal in funding early childhood programs is to prepare children for kindergarten and for life. Specific investments include:
Providing Quality Child Care: $59,000
Health Care Services for children: $56,000
Crisis Care: $15,000
Healthy Family Outreach and Development: $50,000
Services for children with disabilities: $30,060
Youth: Guiding Development. – This investment area consists of 16 programs totaling a $417,544 investment in guiding development in youth. United Way’s goal in funding youth programs is to help youth grow into successful adults and graduate from high school. Specific investments include:
Mentoring and tutoring: $35,000
Crisis Services: $69,800
After-school programs: $150,000
Literacy: $57,200
Life skills and healthy living programs: $105,544
Basic Needs: Building Self-Sufficiency and Responding to Crisis – This investment area consists of 25 programs totaling a $372,220 investment in building self-sufficiency and responding to crisis in Champaign County. This investment area represents the broadest range of core services –including housing, crisis support, food, and health care. Program allocations secure county-wide services in those core service areas. Specific investments include:
Food: $12,500
Homelessness, Shelter, and Homebuying: $117,500
Senior Services: $78,500
Social Services, counseling, and crisis care: $99,720
Services for adults with disabilities: $39,000
Medical Services: $25,000
Strengthening the Human Care Network as a Whole – This investment area consists of six programs totaling a $110,176 investment in strengthening the human care network as a whole. Programs in this investment area are imperative to the overall success of programs system of social service and human care programs in Champaign County. Specific investments include:
Mobilizing volunteer resources (including seniors and young adults): $43,176
Informational services: $67,000
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The Philosophy of Our Work |
United Way of Champaign County attempts to understand both the current and potential assets of the community as well as areas for improvement. However, it is important to recognize that the concepts of assets and challenges are not inseparable. The assets of our community are its people while the ultimate purpose of the community must be to serve those people and to ensure their continued well-being.
In order to translate our mission into action, United Way has adopted three fundamental outcomes to our work:
• Strengthening Families. Families, in what ever form one might take, are the foundation to children’s success as well as economic independence. Strengthening families, and therefore strengthening children and youth will led to the overall outcome of children growing into successful adults.
• Obtaining Greater Economic Independence. All known research indicates that poverty is the single most important contributor to children’s lack of success, and parental influence and supports the most important factor in their success. Our community must achieve greater success in assisting individuals to prepare for, attain and retain full employment. Achieving this outcome will clearly reduce dependency, contribute to the economy, and strengthen families and children.
• Providing Support to our Most Vulnerable Populations. We have always been and will continue to be aware of those community members that are in crisis, without food and shelter, are disabled or need assistance with achieving independence.
Our involvement must balance the needs of Champaign County residents with our capacity to affect those needs. Our choices of principles, priorities and strategic activities should also be guided by community strengths, alignment to mission, appropriateness to donors, organizational capacity, diversity and inclusiveness, measurable outcomes, and county-wide balance. As we consider strategies, our recommendations will be informed by these key principles:
• Alignment of our Work. To be effective, all areas of our work must be working together toward common outcomes, one effort can’t be undertaken without determining how it will support or affect another.
Our impact work drives all of United Way’s work – strategy development, resource development of all types, communication, accountability and services – and its efforts to partner with others to improve our community and people’s lives. Everything we do is aligned to the outcomes and goals of our work in community impact.
• Maintain Foundation of Services in the Community. Balancing the needs of people experiencing crisis with the human care needs essential to greater economic independence, we first maintain a commitment to supporting a foundation of services essential to our community in our investment areas.
• Address Additional Issues as our Capacity Allows. Within our capacity, we work to maximize outcomes in our investment areas. This may be accomplished by additional program investments to meet human care needs or to address the systematic issues as to why these needs exist in the first place.
• Strengthen and Support the Human Care Network as a Whole. We promote the capacity of the human care network, its ability to mobilize and utilize available resources or generate new ones, and its ability to effectively meet the needs of Champaign County residents.
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