The United Way Community Impact Cabinet met on May 17, 2010 at our new offices at 900 Chapel Street to move through a full agenda of community change efforts.  The volunteers reviewed the recently made Neighbor-to-Neighbor LifeLine investments, and discussed the information learned from the initiative to better understand the challenges and strengths facing our region.  The bottom line: what did we learn from this fundraising, investment, and volunteer effort that will make our work and this community stronger? The conversation ranged from addressing the infrastructure to supply high-demand food items to people seeking emergency foods to the unanticipated results of a high demand on basic services during a time of fluctuating state and federal funding.

Tasked with leading United Way's efforts to achieve our desired changes in education, income and health, the CIC is a 19-member volunteer group representing the diversity of our region that brings community leadership and content expertise to our work.  The CIC's work continues with evaluating and approving United Way's investment strategy for 2010-2011, and setting priorities for organizational growth and resources in the coming year.