Berkshire United Way Community Investment Report 2009-2010

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BUW launches a major community outreach cam-paign to identify the community aspiration, goals,and desired outcomes.

The outreach work included regular meetings of four different working groups:

Early Childhood Development and Educa-tion SuccessK-12 School and Youth Development Suc-cessWorkers and Scholars SucceedNeighborhood Success

Over 400 representatives from more than 75organizations and community volunteers acrossthe region participated in a BUW-facilitatedmeeting series which spanned two years andresulted in defined goals and outcomes for theregion.

BUW collaborates with the Berkshire RegionalPlanning Commission to conduct regional dataand program outcome evaluation. BRPCdevelops a baseline report of related data points(measures) for the BUW goals, outcomes, andindicator statements.

BUW develops and issues its first Request ForProposals (RFP) for a competitive applicationprocess.

BUW volunteers select 55 programs from 27partner organizations from 98 submittedCommunity Impact applications.

BUW works with its 55 program partners toimplement outcome tracking and reportingfor both program-specific work andmeasures, and community-wide conditionsas defined by the Community Impact model.

Monitoring visits verify program activity,measurement, and environment of eachpartner program.

BUW selected a grants managementsoftware to facilitate future RFP and outcomereporting.

BUW saw the Community Impact modelbegin to have spin -off impacts in thecommunity as organizations beganindependent collaborations to tackle teenpregnancy, early childhood education, andaligning regional socio-economic priority-setting and action campaigns.


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