Does your 30-second pitch secure you a new donor? If you’re like most United Way employees or volunteers, the answer is no. How do you change that?

While many United Ways proclaim that they are community impact organizations, they do not act like community impact organizations. If you want to create a culture of community impact at your United Way, then there are four tenets of community impact you need to be acting upon . . .

At Perspectives, we have been honored to work with over 100 United Ways since 1989. Over the years, we would get requests from our United Way clients to help them find their next president or executive director. We helped several of our United Way clients with their search process, but . . .

It was a comment from a United Way president last week that got me thinking – and worried. He said “Our COVID-19 relief fund has made our United Way . . ..”

Several years ago, a restaurant chain completely redesigned the outside of their restaurants. The restaurants weren’t out-of-date nor falling down, but restaurant managers explained that they made significant changes . . .

For those of you who have been marching the beat of the “one day at a time” mantra, I want to ask you to do two things: one for yourself, and one for your United Way.