The New Solutions Council is currently in a very exciting place!  We are working on many different ideas, plans and projects that will help further our impact on the local community.  One of our biggest projects is working on our new Strategy & Investment Plan.  This plan will help guide our work in an even more concise way than we have experienced since the forming of our group in February 2009.  It will help us to assist local communities who have identified and implemented strategies…

In fall of 2009, New Solutions funded several projects and over the next few months the final reports will be coming in. The Brothers and Sisters Project combined the resources of Child Care Resources, American Red Cross and the Community Schools Collaborative to address the high number of youth that aren’t able to participate in after school activities because they are needed at home to care for younger brothers and sisters. The project was implemented in three different schools in South King County: Evergreen Campus…

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…

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…