For 100 years, United Way for Greater Austin has championed the collective power of gathering and giving to strengthen our community. Our new strategic plan lays the foundation for an even more profound impact as we enter our next 100 years.
It emphasizes our core strengths, opportunities for increased alignment, and harnesses the power of a collaborative community to break the cycle of economic inequality in Central Texas.
United Way for Greater Austin brings our community together to break economic barriers and build opportunity for all.
A Central Texas where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
We aim to accelerate individuals and families’ ability to thrive by providing high-quality early care and education and equitable access to pivotal resources.
When present, individuals can…
When individuals lack access to quality education and care, they can experience outcomes including…
Accelerators of thriving communities:
When present, individuals can…
When individuals lack access to quality education and care, they can experience outcomes including…
Accelerators of thriving communities:
High Quality Early Care & Education
When present, individuals can…
When individuals lack access to quality education and care, they can experience outcomes including…
Equitable Access to Sufficient Resources
When present, individuals can…
When individuals lack access to quality education and care, they can experience outcomes including…
We are allocating our resources across four key strategies.
Establish trusted source of research-based insights for the community, cultivate subject matter expertise on state of poverty in Greater Austin
Guide collective impact in collaboration with community members and partners and empowered by United Way’s thought leadership
Provide direct services when United Way is uniquely positioned to do so, otherwise support partner organizations to drive impact
Working with coalitions, coordinate efforts to influence public policy at the district, city, county, and state level
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Read MoreStrategic planning is a cornerstone of any successful organization. Through the strategic planning process, which lasted eight weeks, United Way discovered our core strengths and opportunities for increased alignment and impact.
United Way’s new strategic plan will guide our future operations, structure, programs, and services.
United Way is not making any huge pivots in program, services, and coalition offerings. Generally, the input we received from community members strongly affirms the work we do and the way we’re doing it.
Our new strategic framework makes it easier to see how each program, services, and coalition is rooted in United Way’s mission and utilizes one or more of four key strategies: data, coalitions, services and support, and advocacy.
United Way developed this strategic plan in partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading global consulting firm. (BCG also guided United Way’s previous strategic planning process in 2017.) We’re grateful to BCG for donating their expert services in-kind!
Through this process, we engaged more than 150 community members in interviews, focus groups, and workshops – complemented by more than 150 survey responses. Input was gathered from Board and team members, nonprofit partners, people with lived experience relevant to our mission, donors, corporate partners, civic leaders, media outlets, and more representing both Travis and Williamson counties.
Thank you to Boston Consulting Group, a leading global consulting firm, who we partnered with to develop this new strategic plan.
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