United Way has identified 4 main Community Action Areas to focus on:
1. Children and Education
2. Women
3. Civic Issues
4. Capacity Building of NGOs
Under each of these action areas there are dozens of NGOs that are known to do various levels of significant work. United Way is already working with several of these NGOs in one way or another however, so are most of the donors that include the government, multi-lateral and uni-lateral agencies, corporates and individual donors.
Therefore instead of focusing on the dozen or two non-profit agencies that most donors partner with, United Way makes a special attempt to identify what we term as the seeds and saplings, organizations that were initiated to serve certain specific community needs but who do not have access to formal funds and have not received significant donation from any formal funding agency or the government.
Working in close partnership with an organization is a time consuming charter. We will endeavor to work with our partner NGOs in understanding their roadmaps for the next three years, as also iterating their impact on the community. Such a model cannot allow us to work with over 100-200 NGOs as done by perhaps other institutions. At no point of time will United Way work directly with more than 5O NGOs of which only a dozen may be selected for in-depth partnerships and capacity building.
The United Way Community Investment process is a 5 stage process.
Click here to learn more about the different stages in the United Way Community Investment Process. |
