The first week of May marks my three-year anniversary of working at Perspectives and working with United Ways around the country. In my three years I have been blessed to work with so many amazing United Ways actively changing their communities for the better.

In our 30 years of experience surveying United Way donors, we have seen basically everything. Recently, I was thinking back to the biggest lessons we have learned from donor surveys and landed on these three . . .

Spring is approaching and with it, the annual tradition of spring cleaning. Recently, I got it into my head that, in the spirit of spring cleaning, I was going to sort and clean spaces throughout my house that had accumulated “stuff.”

In the past 24 hours, I received not one but two emails from local United Way executive directors telling me they were resigning their positions. Note I did not say retiring, both of these executives are nowhere near retirement age and have chosen to resign their positions. Their experiences are . . .

Rarely a day goes by without a United Way executive telling me they are overworked and overwhelmed. You might think this is a new problem, perhaps a result of COVID-19 or working from home, but I assure you being overworked and overwhelmed is not a new problem for United Ways.

Nobody likes being passed over or overlooked. And yet, it is something that has happened to all of us at one point or another. For me growing up, it was anything to do with sports.