Blog Category: Income
The Importance of a Healthy Environment
Regular physical activity is critical for a child to be able to have good health, success in school, and overall wellbeing. Educating individuals to make the healthy choice is important, but is not enough to combat the environmental conditions and limitations that often determine an individual’s health. More
08/20/12
Some of My Reasons for LIVING UNITED
LIVE UNITED
Think back to your introduction and first experience with the United Way. Was it volunteering? Was it giving? Was it advocacy? For me, it was our Sunday afternoon public service announcements when I was a teenager in the early 1980s. More
08/16/12
Charting a Course for Change through Collective Impact
Charting a Course
Are you working with a United Way on your community initiative and wondering what the best role is for them? If so, check out this new white paper that lays out the community strategies experts say work best to improve education, financial stability and health and how your United Way can help you turn those strategies into action. More
08/13/12
United Way Advocacy Forum and Capitol Hill Day 2012
United Way Hill Day
Nearly 50 United Way CEOs, staff and volunteers gathered in Washington, DC last week for an advocacy training and Hill Day focused on advocating for critical Education, Income and Health issues. More
07/24/12
Rock Stars in Nashville
It’s hard to think of an academic as a rock star, but that’s how Mark Kramer was received at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Nashville in early May 2012. Perhaps it was because we were in the U.S. County Music Capital (Dolly Parton made an appearance as well, but that’s another story altogether).
05/18/12