The New Solutions Council met last month and had a very informative and interactive meeting.  Our council volunteers led portions of the meeting and had great ideas about how we can move forward and ways to measure that we as a group are achieving our goals and how we can best convene groups to discuss various topics out in the community!  We are about to start the process of checking in with some of our small grants funded projects to see how their programs are…

The New Solutions Council has been busy look at our measurement tools for both ourselves and the projects that we fund. We are hard at work looking into how we have funded projects in the past and are looking at ways to help assist many agencies in better working together to collaborate on projects for similar goals in the community! Stay tuned for more details about our work!

We are very busy with our Youth and Older Adults funding process! We received a large amount of applications and look forward to reviewing the information about the great work that our local agencies provide to the members of our community. Our focus through the remainder of January will be on this project and look forward to moving our work forward in many other ways aside from our investments in the coming months!

Greetings from the New Solutions Impact Council!   We wanted to give a quick update to all of our readers that UWKC’s New Solutions Community Impact Council has been working very hard on several key projects.  At the December meeting, we discussed our progress and ongoing work  involving the faith community with UWKC to a greater extent.  This will provide the New Solutions Council and UWKC as a whole, more opportunities to find out what the needs are of people who traditionally are served only by their…

We wanted to give a quick update to all of our readers that UWKC’s Strengthening Our Community Council has been hard at work over the past couple of months busily preparing for our upcoming agency application review!  On January 6^th, all agencies who wish to apply for either our Older Adults or Youth Development funding should have their applications complete and submitted to UWKC for review.  Once all of the applications are received, lead staff and volunteers will conduct a very thorough review process.  Based…

On Monday, the Strengthening Our Community Council had a very informative meeting.  In preparation for our upcoming application review and allocation process, we learned about two key subject areas under our council’s umbrella Youth Development and Older Adults.  These are the only two subject areas that we will have Outcomes open for non-profit agencies to apply for funds under in January 2010.  We had two wonderful panels (one for each subject matter) made up of persons who are leaders in these fields in the King County…

The New Solutions Community Impact Council had our most recent monthly meeting last week and it was a very productive, informative and interactive meeting!  After welcoming everyone and doing our normal introductions, we went on to discuss our thoughts on the many new and different ways that our council can stay connected with our local community here in King County as well as how to obtain information from community members, leaders, stakeholders, etc.  This conversation was both exciting and inspiring as we brainstormed our ideas and had…

Last Monday, the SOC Council had our monthly volunteer meeting.  Currently, we are preparing to review applications from agencies seeking funding in the following subject areas: Youth and Older Adults.  In order to make sure that our council is keeping in mind the importance of racial equity in the work that we do, we had an extended meeting to begin discussing the Race Matters information used by UWKC throughout our organization.  This information can be found at The Annie E. Casey Foundation website at the…

United Way of King County recently went through a major reorganization in our Community Services Department (this is the department that allocates the money to various non-profit direct service organizations that our Fundraising Department raises).  As a result of this reorganization, two new Community Impact Councils were born, Strengthening Our Community (SOC) and New Solutions (NS).  Both councils do great work that helps to support many programs that work to positively affect the lives of thousands of King County residents each day!  The SOC council…