What is Community Impact and why is United Way the leader in this movement?

The North Texas Area United Way has become the agent for change in North Texas. Once a primarily fund raising organization, today’s United Way is strengthening our communities and improving lives through meaningful community impact work.

Community impact is:

• Identifying, addressing, and solving specific issues in the area of Education, Income and Health that no single donor, charity, or government agency can handle alone.
• Bringing key partners to the table to problem solve with a community-wide focus, not just single issues.
• About improving the lives of all people affected by our community’s priority issues, not just those served by individual programs.
• Beginning to bring the community together to focus on these pressing issues to achieve measurable results.
• Being an organization that focuses on the root causes of local issues and seeks lasting solutions.

United Way has transformed the way it operates in response to a changing environment. Our promise to our donors is to improve lives, strengthen communities and produce bottom line results.