United Way News

January-25-2012

Black History Event to Tell History

The African American Leadership Council of United Way of Anderson County will host its 5th Annual Black History Event on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 12:00 pm at Tucker’s Restaurant.

January-25-2012

2012 VITA Sites

The Developing Self-Sufficiency vision council of United Way of Anderson County has partnered with local leaders to expand the availability of free tax preparation services in Anderson County.

Community Impact
In 2005 the United Way of Anderson County’s Board of Directors voted to move forward with the development of a Community Impact Agenda and a new approach to United Way operations. United Ways across the nation are setting specific goals to address the most important issues in their communities, goals that are designed to create long-term positive changes in the lives of their residents. What is the Community Impact Agenda? In short, it is a road map for Anderson on how to meet its most urgent needs and how to connect area strengths and assets with opportunities to improve our community in a measurable way.

The Community Impact Agenda defines community visions for a positive future and identifies desirable and measurable community-level outcomes as indicators and targets for success. These indicators and targets serve as long-term goals and provide for measurable ways to determine progress, results and areas for improvement.

As one of the critical success factors of Community Impact is community involvement and collaborations, through the development process and in moving forward, community partners have been careful to ensure coordination with a concurrent community-level planning process being led by the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce. This effort, Imagine Anderson, is a broad-ranged community visioning process that will provide the Anderson community with visions and goals for various community sectors to be achieved by the year 2026. While the Imagine Anderson effort is broader in scope, Community Impact focuses primarily on the health and human services sector. There is no doubt that these two efforts complement and support each other and partnerships on common goals will naturally take place as the two processes work together.

The Agenda will help the community focus on specific issues and goals for improvement, will serve as a strategic guide for philanthropic investments, will facilitate collaborative efforts in the community and can assist in linking community strengths and assets to community needs.