Driving Community Impact:
How the United Way Empowers Local Agencies Through Grant Programs
United Way’s Community Fund grant programs play a pivotal role in empowering local organizations to create meaningful change and improve lives within their communities.
- Address pressing local needs and challenges
- Strengthen nonprofits through targeted funding
- Foster collaboration and collective impact
- Promote equity and inclusion across communities
- Inspire long-term sustainability and growth
A well-executed grantmaking strategy not only ensures impactful use of funds but also deepens trust and engagement between United Way, its donors, and the communities it serves.
Webinar: 12/10/2024 at 11 am CT
Webinar Highlights:
- Balancing demand for funding with limited resources as community needs often exceed available funds.
- Allocating funds fairly across diverse programs and communities.
- Tracking long-term impact.
- Managing a fair and equitable community grant program
- Channeling resources to address diverse community needs through education, healthcare, housing, and more.
- Building trust and encouraging continued giving by showcasing the tangible impact of donations.
- Enhancing reputation as a trusted leader in community development and philanthropy.
- Strengthening partnerships with nonprofits, organizations, and local businesses.
- Gaining valuable insights into evolving community challenges to guide future initiatives.
- The Applicant Experience
- The United Way Experience
- A Fair, Inclusive Selection Process
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The experience your deserve
The Scholarship Applicant Experience
Empower scholarship applicants with the modern and user friendly experience they desire – promoting more engaged participants, increased participation rates, better quality applications, and reduced support.
The Scholarship Management Experience
Increase scholarship management efficiency by an average of 84%, saving time and money that can be better allocated to other high-impact activities. Manage the entire scholarship lifecycle in one place with a dedicated scholarship management system – eliminating the back and fourth between paper, email, web forms, spreadsheets, exporting, databases, file sharing, and more.
Streamline your review process with Reviewr’s dynamic feature for assigning scholarship applicants to review committees, a vital tool within our comprehensive scholarship management software. This feature offers versatile assignment options to accommodate your program’s unique needs, ensuring a fair and unbiased evaluation process. Manually assign individual scholarship applications to specific committee members for a tailored review approach, or utilize groupings to distribute batches of applications efficiently among different reviewers. For a more impartial distribution, leverage the automated assignment system, which randomly allocates a set number of submissions to judges, mitigating potential biases and promoting a fair assessment environment. This assignment flexibility ensures that each application is reviewed thoroughly and fairly, enhancing the integrity and credibility of your scholarship program.
The Scholarship Review Experience
Reduce scholarship evaluation workloads by 79% and promote a professional and time-conscious online review and selection experience resulting in higher quality reviews, feedback, and increased year over volunteer retention. Ensure program integrity and confidence through non-bias, accurate, transparent, consistent, and data-driven decision-making.
