UNITE Central Ohio

2016, ISSUE I

UNITE Cent r al Ohio

TRANSFORMING

INVESTMENTS to REDUCE

POVERTY

What’s Next

for CHAMPION

OF CHILDREN BUILDING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION COLUMBUS KIDS

2.0

Tiwuan Atchley has faced a lot of challenges in his young life, but with the

help of United Way he became the first member of his family to go to college.

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Welcome to the first issue of our new quarterly magazine, UNITE Central Ohio.

What’s Next

for CHAMPION

OF CHILDREN BUILDING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

COLUMBUS KIDS

2.0

This new publication replaces our LIVING UNITED newsletter and as you have probably noticed already, it’s quite a bit different. Let’s face it, in our connected world where access to real-time information is immediate (and constant), the idea of getting news once every three months is pretty antiquated. So, we have completely re-imagined our approach to keeping you informed about the work you support.

We know every organization says, “Hey! It’s an exciting time at (organization name)!” But we are truly sincere when we say, “Hey! It’s an exciting time at United Way of Central Ohio!”

More of our staff members are engaged in more exciting projects than ever before. We are transforming the way we do business and throughout the magazine you will see the people who are making it happen, front and center.

Instead of recapping events that may have occurred months ago, we will be looking forward to let you know more about where we are going rather than where we have been. (Our monthly emails will keep you up to date on current news.)

For example, if you look just across the page to your right you will see an article about our new investment approaches. We still have to work out a lot of the details on how they will be implemented and they won’t take effect until January 2017, but they are an important part of our shared future and you need to know about them.

You will also see more links to online content including lots of photos and videos. The best way to connect to these great multimedia features is by viewing the magazine at our website: liveunitedcentralohio.org. And while you are online please like our social media feeds. Needless to say, we have a very limited amount of space in the magazine to share all of the events United Way supporters participate in, but you can find hundreds of event photos across our feeds.

We hope you enjoy UNITE Central Ohio magazine and we want to hear your thoughts on how we can make it better. You can email us at editor@uwcentralohio.org, post on our Facebook page or tweet at us at @uwco.

Tiwuan: Larger than Life “I knew I was going to make it big someday, but I never thought I’d be THAT BIG.” That was Linden-McKinley graduate Tiwuan Atchley after seeing his 25- by 35-foot smiling image covering a building near Broad and High.

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Transform and Accelerate Central Ohio faces an unprecedented dilemma.

Our economy has recovered from the Great Recession and unemployment is the lowest it has been in years. But the number of people in poverty remains stubbornly high. To address this situation, we have to innovate and develop solutions that go beyond anything we have done in the past.

With this in mind, United Way staff and volunteers have spent months reimagining our approaches to investing our donor’s contributions to maximize their effectiveness. We have made great progress.

We have aligned proven strategies with agile funding approaches in a way we believe will transform and accelerate our efforts to reduce poverty. In a nutshell, through our new approaches we will progress from interconnected investments to integrated investments that work even more closely together to expand positive change.

At a county-wide level, we will work to promote public and system policies that reduce poverty by providing opportunities for people who are struggling to succeed.

Our new integrated investment model was developed with the leadership and input of hundreds of diverse volunteers and community partners and will take effect on January 1, 2017.

We still have a lot of details to work out but we want to share some of the big picture concepts behind the transformation. Stay tuned. We will share much more in upcoming UNITE Central Ohio issues.

We know where the greatest needs are and where we can help the most. We will work to provided coordinated and integrated services that put people on a proven path to stability.

We will concentrate some investments in neighborhoods where partners have created momentum for improvement and where United Way’s experience will be the most effective.

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Pop-up meetings are creating energy and innovation at United Way.

Building a Culture of

Innovation

The world is moving faster.

Innovative new ways of approaching issues are being developed and launched all day, every day. In this environment, we realized we had to re-imagine the way we work at United Way. We had to create a culture where seeking opportunities to be more effective at reducing poverty is our constant goal and measure.

So, we banded together with 11 other United Ways across the country and the renowned change management company Kotter International to change the way we do business.

We sought ideas from everyone. We had pop-up meetings. Lots of pop-up meetings. We voted on how to proceed. We began to change a topdown culture into a more nimble, innovative one focused on ideas and innovation.

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It’s still early days in these transformative efforts but we have already experienced a tremendous boost in energy at 360 South Third Street.

Teams of people at every level and from every department are coming together, hashing out new ways to work, building prototypes, testing, failing and learning.

Everyone is involved but three teams—focused on key organizational priorities—have emerged that together make up what Kotter calls a “Guiding Coalition.” The members of these groups are bringing their experience and ideas to bear in determining the best opportunities for making United Way better.

Here’s a snapshot of what the Guiding Coalition teams are up to:

Data and Technology Getting concrete, measurable results is in United Way’s DNA. That means we collect and analyze a lot of data. Bringing that data to life through the use of technology is the challenge this team

of internal and external experts has taken on.

The potential payoff is not just greater efficiency but the ability to see data in new ways that spur thinking and innovation.

MAUREEN HENRY Data Services Coordinator “We started with the question, ‘How do we leverage data and technology in ways that better connect people with the work of United Way?’ That got us thinking about data visualization and finding ways to use real-time data on our results to clearly tell donors what their gift does. We are already working on some exciting prototypes, and there is a lot more to come.”

We Reduce Poverty This team is focused on developing simple, powerful ways to talk about the work of United Way that center on the consistent message– WE REDUCE POVERTY. United Way is involved in many, many efforts across the community and

when it comes to telling people what we do and why it is important, messages can become complicated and unclear. This team aims to clear away the clutter and develop a playbook that can inspire everyone.

MELANIE MURPHY Volunteer Engagement Manager “Rapid innovation and change requires a staff that is playing from the same playbook, singing from the same songbook. Our team has taken on the task of creating a living culture document, Our Way, that speaks to what we believe and how we behave as we work together to reduce poverty.”

Prosperity Incubator The mission of this team is to create an incubator for innovative, rapid, dynamic and collaborative problem-solving aimed at reducing poverty in our community. The concept emerged as design thinking teams, inspired by work with Kotter International, reflected upon ways to create

culture change and increase internal and external engagement at United Way. The team is looking to model the culture of many start-up tech companies—a place where very few nonprofits currently are operating.

CHRIS GROVES Director of Digital Marketing “This project potentially gives us both a conceptual framework and a physical space to be innovative in the work of reducing poverty. It will allow us to show the community that we are really thinking in a different way and moving quickly but deliberately to make great impact.”

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CHAMPION OF CHILDREN: Focus on Boys of Color in 2016 In 2015, Champion of Children worked to raise awareness about the many challenges facing boys of color. The education initiative did more on this subject than it has for any previous theme, but as it worked to determine its focus for 2016 it was clear that much more needed to be done. So, Champion of Children will continue to look at boys of color in 2016 and dig deeper into the big issues that face them like poverty, implicit bias, and the school to prison pipeline.

The 2016 Champion of Children report will expand on the 2015 report and offer not only an analysis of the plight of boys of color but a concrete, detailed call to action for our community to get involved in activities like mentoring that help boys of color succeed.

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Poverty by race/ethnicity, boys under age 18, Franklin County, 2013 150,000 131,250

100%

93,750

All boys under age 18

100%

75,000

100%

56,250

In poverty

37,500 18,750 0

25.6% 14.6% Total

38.7%

White Non-White or (non-Hispanic) Hispanic/Latino

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates

DELILAH LOPEZ Director, Champion of Children

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“People need to understand more about the huge challenges facing our boys of color. Even though we have spent a year raising awareness on this subject, it became clear we need to do more. That’s why we are devoting our efforts in 2016 to going even deeper.”

Columbus Kids 2.0: Building on Success CINDY STURNI Senior Director, Early Childhood Initiatives

“Columbus Kids 2.0 is an exciting new chapter for our program.

We know that the success of preschool children depends on many factors, especially the challenges that may face their families, and our new model means we can help the child by helping the family.�

Over the past five years, Columbus Kids and Franklin County Kids coordinators have assessed almost 19,000 preschool children. Many of these children had developmental delays and were referred to services that can help them get back on track. This crucial work of ensuring more children enter kindergarten ready to succeed will remain the core of our efforts as we look to the future.

Using it as a strong foundation, our programs have now expanded to encompass many other factors that have a direct impact on children. We are confident that this enhanced model, Columbus Kids 2.0, will make our work even more effective at achieving positive results.

How Columbus Kids 2.0 Works

Child screened and needs developmental services

Home visit by coordinator to assess family needs

Home assessment determines father needs connection to job training and mother is pregnant but lacks medical care

Columbus Kids 2.0 is off to a fast start. Our coordinators have already begun conducting visits to the homes of young children (ages 2 – 5) that have been assessed as needing services and providing more comprehensive assessments of the whole family. Since we know that the educational success of our children is based on many factors like family health, parent employment and housing, these comprehensive assessments provide the opportunity for coordinators to connect families with a wide range of services. Every service that helps families maintain a stable home life goes a long way toward helping their children do better in school.

Coordinator connects father to job training services Coordinator connects child to needed developmental services Coordinator connects mother to prenatal medical services

Coordinator checks in regularly to ensure family is linked to services

Family receives needed services and is able to move forward in several interconnected ways

Child enters kindergarten ready to succeed.

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Society, Higher Alexis de Toqueville Society takes on new focus and energy in 2016.

United Way donors at the highest level ($10K+) have long represented the fastest, most efficient way to reduce poverty in central Ohio. And with a new year, brings a new focus: growing our Tocqueville Society membership, and increasing impact in our community.

Through the campaign leadership of Huntington CEO Steve Steinour and key Tocqueville volunteer leaders, United Way is actively reshaping our Tocqueville Society’s approach and brand.

We’re setting ambitious goals to expand the ranks of community leaders in 2016 and beyond who lead through their ideas STEVE STEINOUR and their actions. In Steinour’s words, “To continue making groundbreaking advances in reducing poverty, there are many who must step up—it’s imperative for our city to thrive.”

Toward that goal, our United Way has begun transforming our organization, re-aligning staff, and identifying best practices from across the United Way network. Part of the change involves implementing a three-part plan which includes, among much else, the establishment of an exclusive, signature annual event, the creation of a new donor match fund, as well as invitations to world-class experiences for members.

If there is a community-wide group which cuts across cultural boundaries, where the common thread is desire to help level the playing field for thousands, and, in turn, create a stronger central Ohio, it’s Tocqueville. Call it a who’s who, movers, shakers, players—or just a collection of our most generous neighbors. To us, it’s a group that helps us make great progress towards reducing poverty.

And that’s a group we’d all like to see grow.

ANGEL HARRIS SVP, Resource Development & Chief Development Officer “Our 2015 Campaign Co-Chairs Steve and Patti Steinour have helped energize our efforts to greatly expand the number of Tocqueville members and set a powerful vision for the future of this important group. Our community has great potential and their leadership is making a significant difference. Our aim is to make the Tocqueville Society the preeminent giving group in central Ohio and I believe the engagement opportunities planned for 2016 and beyond will get us there.”

UNITE Central Ohio

2016, ISSUE I

United Way of Central Ohio 360 South Third Street. Columbus, OH 43215 614.227.2700 LiveUnitedCentralOhio.org Editor: KERMIT WHITFIELD

Design: ANDY RUBEY

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