United Way volunteers have identified two impact target areas to accomplish the goal of United Way.
Impact Council
An Impact Council is defined as a United Way volunteer committee formed to address a particular set of community outcomes. Community volunteers, human service professionals, subject experts, funding partners, and consumers of services make up the membership of the impact council.
Understanding Community Impact
Understanding Community Impact is defined as creating useful ways to measure how providing funds and opportunities for volunteering has impacted the community. This will increase our understanding of community needs and how the work of the United Way as well as partner agencies helps to create positive change within the Gratiot County community.
For more information please go to our results page.
Our Work
Mission
Volunteers working together for the betterment of individual lives in the community of Gratiot County.
United Way of Gratiot County will be a unique leader in convening partners to generate systemic and sustainable improvements in our communities. We will be recognized as a trusted steward of our communities’ investments and resources, and accountable for planned outcomes.
United Way believes that to truly improve lives in our county we must act collectively to impact the critical issues affecting the residents of Gratiot County. We are committed to bringing together partners across all sectors in order to address community concerns before they become problems. In so doing we create sustainable community change.
Improving community by providing funds and opportunities for volunteering.