Is your United Way prepared to succeed in the future? Have you been making changes to remain relevant and better connect with your donors and community members?

“If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford

Does your United Way hold a special event? If so, is your United Way promoting a specific issue tied to this event?

The righter we do the wrong thing, the wronger we become. Therefore, when we correct a mistake doing the wrong thing we become wronger. It is better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right.

– Russell Ackoff

Over the years, I have seen a lot of vision statements from United Ways, and most probably meet these definitions. However, just because a vision statement meets the definition does not make it useful or beneficial. This begs the question “Why would a United Way want a vision statement?”

Just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean it’s not worth looking for.

– Norton Juster