United Way of Racine CountyCollectively Building an Educated Workforce

Overview

• United Way of Racine County’s Role – Higher Expectations

• Creating the Foundation for Collective Impact:

United Way of Racine County’s Strategic Planning Process

• Coordination, Collaboration, and Alignment of Resources:

Racine County Funder’s Group

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United Way of Racine County’s Role:Higher Expectations

• Anchor Institution

- Serves a Co-Backbone function with Racine County

- Neutral Entities

- Provide key staff and data supports

- Has convening power to ensure that key leaders will

consistently come to the table over time.

• Fiscal Agent

• Partner

- Community Schools

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Creating Foundation for Collective Impact:UWRC’s Strategic Planning Process

Strategic Planning Process

November 2013 Donor Survey Community Conversations BeginDecember 2013 UWRC Staff and Board SWOT AnalysisFebruary 2014 Donor Survey results shared by PerspectivesJuly 2014 Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee RetreatSeptember 2014 Board adopts new mission, vision, and core valuesOctober 2014 Board adopts single issue focus Strategic Planning Data Team formedNovember 2014 Data Team presents single issue recommendation to Board

Mission StatementMobilizing the caring power of Racine County to improve lives and transform our community.

Strategic Planning ProcessJanuary 2015 Board adopts “Building an Educated Workforce”March 2015 Focus announced at Annual MeetingApril 2015 – October 2015 Strategy Teams convene

CompositionTeams are convening for our three focus areas of Education, Income and Health, as well as Marketing. Board members, UWRC staff, and stakeholders with expertise in the specific focus area make up each team.  Key MilestonesApril – Overview of Strategic Planning process, defined “Employability”May – Identified key barriers to Building an Educated Workforce in Education, Income and Health, reviewed Community School modelJune – Consulted other Issue-focused United WaysJuly – Reviewed SparkPoint, Higher Expectations, and key questions on priority areas for deepest impact, Marketing SWOT analysisAugust – Charting the Course for Change discussion, started development of sub-goal for each area, identified additional data points needed

Strategic Planning ProcessDecember 2015 Bold goal and strategies are setJanuary 2016 Investment process pilots Community Schools RFPMarch 2016 Bold goal announced at Annual MeetingJuly 2016 Transition to “Building an Educated Workforce” focus is completeJuly 2017 Investment process fully transitioned to RFP’s

Education Strategies

Income Strategies

HealthStrategies

UWRC’s Issue

8

Building an Educated Workforce

Education Strategies –Helping Children and Youth Succeed

UWRC will strategically focus and align its resources and efforts across the education continuum to maximize impact and mutually reinforce Higher Expectations goals where appropriate.

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School Readiness

Early Grade

Reading Proficiency

Middle Grade

Success

On-time High

School Graduation

Completion of College

or Advanced Training

Coordination, Collaboration, and Alignment ofResources: Racine County Funder’s Group

Coordination, Collaboration, and Alignment of Resources: Racine County Funder’s Group

• Currently represented by 6-7 community funders

• Informal group

• Meetings began in the spring of 2015

• Group meets quarterly or as needed

• Discussions in the future will focus on goals of the group; must be mutually agreed upon

• The possibility exists for the group’s activities to become more strategic over time

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