2. United Way Worldwide
Advancing the Common Good:
Creating Opportunities for a Better Life for All
United Way’s work is focused on the building blocks for a
good life:
• Education – Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their
Potential
• Income – Promoting Financial Stability and Independence
• Health – Improving People’s Health
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3. United Way of the Florida Keys
Where We have been:
Funding local non-profits in Health and Human Services
since 1981.
Where we are going:
Funding individual programs that provide measurable
outcomes in some specific areas.
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4. United Way of the Florida Keys
Who we are
Our Mission:
Leader in Community Caring
Our Vision:
Build and Support Strong Working Families
by Focusing on:
• Food and Nutrition
• Quality early education and after-school
childcare
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5. United Way of the Florida Keys
Who we are
• Members of the all-volunteer board of directors are chosen
throughout Monroe County
• Board Members, as community leaders, look out for the
interests of our community
• United Way overhead is low
One permanent employee--President
One office assistant (paid for by private grant)
Favorable office lease
To reduce costs, some of our operations (including payroll,
book-keeping) have been contracted to other United Way’s
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6. United Way of the Florida Keys
Board of Directors
Lower Keys Middle Keys Upper Keys
Andy Griffiths Candy Fincke Leah Maki
Andy Griffiths Charters Mariners Hospital Sotheby’s Int. Realty
Dale Bittner Trich Worthington Erin O'Hara
B.B.&T Iberia Bank Publix
Mike Feltman John Spain Kara Lundgren
Retired Keys Event Management Hampton Inn & Suites
Rebecca Horan Ron Smith Nikki Dunn
Atlanta Pacific Insurance Hawks Cay Resort Marketing Consultant
Mindy McKenzie Col. Rick Ramsay Sergio Garcia
Samuel’s House, Inc. Undersheriff AT&T
Arianna Nesbitt Mike Puto Maria Jones
Healthy Start Coalition Govt. Consultant Florida Keys Electric Coop
John Emery Wayne Markham Tim Maloney
Lower Keys Medical Center Keynoter / The Reporter Publix District Manager
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7. United Way of the Florida Keys
What you should know
• Money raised in the Keys stays in the Keys
• A dollar can be highly leveraged thru matching state and
federal grants, as well as corporate matches.
• United Way funds 18 agencies in Monroe County
• We vet agencies so you don’t have to
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8. United Way of the Florida Keys
How you can help and why
• Payroll deductions
• Individual gifts
• Volunteers
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9. United Way of the Florida Keys
Publix Supermarket Employees
are the Top Contributors
District Manager Lee Holmes, store managers
Steve Levine, Kevin Piper, with Mike Feltman,
Margie Smith, Mike Meredith, Regional
Manager, and Erin O’Hara, assistant store
Manager.
Key Largo Publix Store Manager Paul Bean,
with Publix Associates, UWFK President
Margie Smith and agnecy reps from Burton
Memorial and Wesley House at pledge drive.
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10. United Way of the Florida Keys
Community Contributors
Leading the Way in 2011-12
Employee Contributions Corporate Contributions
•Publix Supermarkets •Publix Charities
•Monroe County School System •Bank of America
•AT&T •Sunrise Rotary Club
•Mariners Hospital •AT&T
•Bank of America •TIB Bank
•United Parcel Service •Upper Keys Rotary
•Florida Power & Light •Iberia Bank
•BB&T Bank
•Capital Bank
•Iberia Bank
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11. United Way of the Florida Keys
Agencies in 2011 / 2012
Food: Kids:
• KAIR Food Pantry • YMCA of the Upper Keys
• Burton Memorial Church Food • Boys & Girls Clubs of the Keys
Pantry • Wesley House Family Services
• Star of the Sea Food Pantry • Marathon Recreation Center
• Grace Jones Backpack Program • Florida Keys Outreach Coalition
• MARC • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida
• Florida Keys Children’s Shelter • Anchors Aweigh
• Domestic Abuse Shelter
Safety Net Services:
• American Red Cross • Womankind
• Helpline -- 211 • Boy Scouts
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12. United Way of the Florida Keys
Providing Nutritious Meals
Burton Memorial’s Food Pantry - God’s Kitchen
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13. United Way of the Florida Keys
Helping Create Lasting Change in
Peoples Lives
Girl Scouts in the Veteran’s Day Parade
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15. United Way of the Florida Keys
Thank You!
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Contact:
Margie Smith, President
president@keysunitedway.org
(305) 735-1929
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Notas del editor
I’m XXXX of the United Way of the Florida Keys. (Tell them a little about yourself and that you are a board member with United Way.) We have a lot of exciting changes going on at our local United Way, and I’d like and Ito tell you a little bit about them and how we would like you to become a partner moving forward. We appreciate the support you have shown both United Way and our Community over the years (use examples if you can here).
The United Way began in Colorado in 1887 with a rabbi and two ministers who saw the need for some sort of central clearinghouse to address the social service needs of their local community. A few years later they ran the first coordinated fundraising campaign to feed into local charitable organizations that they themselves would vet. The United Way is not a top down organization—it is a federation of local United Ways, 1300 of them in the US that identify their own community needs, determine priorities locally and fundraise locally. There some corporations and organizations though like the NFL, Publix, UPS that have a national commitment to support United Way and they foster a culture of working with us.United Way of America has very specific, measurable goals in each of these areas over the next 10 years:Cut America’s High School Drop Out Rate in HalfCut in Half the number of lower income families who are financially unstableIncrease by 1/3 the number of youth and adults who are healthy
We’ve actually been in the Keys since 1981.The bottom bullet really means that we’re trying hard to run things like a business. By measurable outcomes there I mean I’m starting to focus us on, for instance at the food pantries: are we reducing the cost per pound of food that the pantry purchases? Right now, we have several food pantries in operation throughout the keys and the demand has risen drastically. Right now, only one of these is getting funding from United Way, and we are offering these food pantries a source of funding but only if they can work together to bring down the cost of food per pound, and use common distribution networks so we increase the reliability of food transport and can decrease the cost of distribution for every pantry.
We’ve had a lot of changes here in addition to moving the office. New President, New Office, New Web Site, New Executive Committee. We still cover the entire county and we are making more of an effort than ever before to be a presence throughout the county.Under the bullets health and income stability….we have determined that over the next 3 years we are going to focus more of our funding on these two areas because we can move the needle more by focusing our energies on a more limited scope. This is a big change, but we are doing it gradually, working closely our non-profit partners.
Wesley House for example is a good example of this leveraging. For every dollar we bring them through our campaign they can pull down $16 in state and federal matching funds.We also go through each applicant agency’s financial such as the IRS Form 990, and look closely at the administrative overhead ratio, as well as whether there is duplication of efforts between agencies.
We fund our non-profits primarily through the workplace campaign, where payroll deductions of very small amounts, even say $5 a paycheck, for an individual can add up when pooled with lots of others.We are planning a Day of Caring event for January 17th so stay tuned, and contact us or fill in your email address on your pledge form if you want to be on out mailing list for local fundraising events and volunteer opportunities such as this.
Publix has been our biggest sponsor in the state of Florida since 1987. Mr. Dean the manager of the Key Largo Publix with two of our Board Members. Erin O”Hara works for Publix and is also a board member. Another way your organization can get involved with United Way is through the Loaned Executive Program, where you your organization provides a staff member to work with United Way of the Florida Keys for a few months to help run the Workplace Campaign.
I do want to acknowledge your support of United Way to date. (Speak about what you know again of their participation with United Ways as a nationwide business or as a local supporter of UWFK. Acknowledge their known community service. Check the donor list and see if they are top contributors for 2009. This list does not include all donors, just biggest ones so add the site you are visiting to the bottom of the list if they are not on it and they were a donor in 2009. This list is in order of how much they donated, with BB&T donating $5000 last year and Publix $58,000.) This is not an exhaustive list, just a few of the top donors.
This is our current list of agencies. We are planning to double our revenue over the next three years, so we have more to work with to enable real change in our focus areas. We will still fund these agencies over the next three years, but we are moving toward something like an RFP for services but where service providers show us how their program can help meet the community needs and then we have reporting mechanisms in place where they check in with us and show us their measurable results. This also helps incentivize those agencies to work together which should reduce duplication of efforts.
United Way of the Florida Keys raises money annually to assist local health and human service non-profits.
Thanks so much for your time and support. Do you have any questions?