Vision & Mission
To improve the quality of life throughout Elkhart County by bringing together individual members of our community to:
- Develop priority social needs through consensus
- Generate and facilitate solutions to meet those needs
- Efficiently recognize, raise and allocate resources to meet those identified needs.
our vision
Promote Charitable Giving as a way of Life and a Community Ethic
- Recognize the inherit compassion in all people by giving the community a way to help
- Understand why people do and don't give
- Community education effort Identify potential new givers and focus efforts to encourage their giving
Build the endowment
- Fund the Central services budget, so all annual dollars go to provide services.
- Educate the community on the difference between annual and endowment giving
- Increase community stability by assuring the United Way's existence.
Help the children
- Pro-family
- Pro-Communities
- Prevention focused
- Strength-based approach that makes recourses available, not just programs
- Develop measurable outcomes in services for families and communities
Be accountable to the community and agencies
- Stewardship - be responsive to the geographic, cultural and socio-economic health and human service needs in our commuity
- Financial - raise and allocate the money wisely and with integrity
- Honor- the time commitments of volunteers Integrity- be ethical
- Collaboration - working with organizations in the community for funding and service delivery
- Communication/Education
- Engendering trust- Credibility of the staff, board and agencies
- Long term vision and short term focus
Collaborate within the county to allocate community resources
- Approach delivery systems with a defined process
- Involve all stakeholders and share resources
- Bring experts and capacities to the table to community problem solve.
- Focusing community funds for maximum impact
Be an organization that respects and promotes diversity
- Diversity is valued in all aspects of the United Way of Elkhart County
- Respect differences and treat everyone as equals
- Develop measurable goals and outcomes that promote diversity
