Investing $30 million in our community
By Carter Hawley

United Way of King County is dedicated to providing fundamental, long-term community solutions. That's why this year we will invest more than $30 million to create profound and positive change in people's lives in King County. This includes an increase of $1 million to end homelessness, $366,000 to support school readiness, and $133,000 for other programs aimed at strengthening the community, another of United Way's top priorities.

United Way is aligned around impact councils which are tasked with solving specific community issues. These councils first assess needs and then identify solutions that will make the most difference in the community. Our priorities include:

• Getting children ready for school
• Ending homelessness
• Strengthening the community

To ensure we are funding the agencies best able to assist with meeting our goals, we solicited applications from agencies previously unfunded from United Way of King County. As a result, we saw a substantial increase in the number of agencies and applications. Deciding which agencies received funding and at what levels was a challenging task.

"Determining how to allocate resources is always incredibly difficult when there is more need than there are resources," said Dan Brettler, United Way board chair. "The only way to invest funds and know that it's making a difference is to do so strategically - determine where we think the greatest impacts can be made in the areas that are most important, and fund them at the highest levels that we can."

Funding decision highlights include:

• Increase funding to end homelessness by $1 million to go towards supportive housing
• Increase funding to school readiness by $300,000 to go towards quality child care through national accreditation
• Move funding to services which will best aid youth's academic success
• Move funding to better equip the social service system to respond and recover from a disaster and provide critical services to vulnerable populations

For further information about the funding process, please contact Carter Hawley at 206-461-3706.

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