United Way Ottawa

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Alain Brisson, Senior Vice President, National Capital Region, CGI

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Alain Brisson, Senior Vice President, National Capital Region, CGI

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Alain Brisson, Senior Vice President, National Capital Region, CGI

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with Richard Saucier, Director, Treasury Board

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with Richard Aucoin Health Canada

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with François Guimont, Deputy Minister, Public Works and Government Services Canada

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with Dr Marc Fortin, Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of National Defence

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with Louise Paiement and Édith Lépine, Campaign Co-Leaders, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

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Michael Allen, President and CEO, United Way Ottawa with Susan Harper, Foreign Affairs andInternational Trade

Meet the New United Way Ottawa

soakley — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:44:40 +0000

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The impact of the work that we do together in our city.

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2012 Leveraging Our Strengths Conference

soakley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:57:34 +0000

Many of our community’s most pressing and complex social problems could be solved more quickly and effectively if non-profits, foundations, governments, and businesses coordinated their efforts to focus on a common agenda. Join keynote speakers Paul Born and Tim Brodhead for an introduction to the Collective Impact framework and approach, followed by in-depth workshop sessions the next day.

Date:
June 13, & 14, 2012

Time:
June 13th – 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
June 14th – 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Location:
Bronson Centre & Confederation Education Centre

Click here for more or to register.

United Way Announces Community Investment Of $27 Million

soakley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:01:36 +0000

Monday, April 30, 2012

Ottawa, ON

Establishes transition fund to support traditionally-funded agencies as evolution to Community Impact United Way progresses

This morning United Way Ottawa announced that it will invest a total of $27 million in programs, services and initiatives this year, more than half of which will go directly to supporting the achievement of measurable goals in its focus areas Growing Up Great, Belonging to Community and Turning Lives Around. This investment is a direct result of United Way donors and others committing total contributions of $33.5 million, which includes campaign pledges of $32.1 million and other grants and contributions of $1.4 million.

“We are here today thanks to the hard work and commitment of thousands of volunteers and more than 100,000 individual and corporate donors – people and organizations who believe that they can make a real difference by being a part of United Way” said Rick Gibbons, United Way Board Chair.

As part of this investment, $811,000 has been set aside to support the transition of programs previously funded under United Way’s traditional funding model. “We have an important legacy with many agencies in this city – and that is our longstanding support of their work delivering services to the people who most need help” said Rick Gibbons, United Way Board Chair. “Our eyes are firmly on achieving important priority goals for this community through investment in front-line programs and in strategies that contribute to system change and lasting results. But we are also respectful of the challenges that come with our move to sharpen focus on goals and to provide access to funding for programs delivered by other not-for-profit agencies through an open Call for Proposals.”

The transition fund will provide 9 months of full funding for traditionally-supported programs not funded through the most recent Call for Proposals. Although 27 agencies will receive support through this fund, 12 of these were successful in their funding bids for support of 26 other programs through United Way’s open Call for Proposals.

In 2012-13, a total of $13.9 million will go to front-line programs, Community Wide Initiatives (CWIs) and other convening, engagement and research that support the achievement of 10 priority goals under United Way’s three focus areas. Of this:

$3.5 million will support the community’s work in the Growing Up Great Focus Area, where the two priority goals are to help more children enter school ready to learn through early learning activities; and to help more at-risk children and youth to succeed through social recreation programs after school, on weekends and during school breaks:
- $2.3 million to 31 front-line programs delivered by 23 agencies
- $949 thousand to CWI Growing Up Great and other Priority Goal Supports
- $250 thousand in Targeted Community Investments

$3.9 million will go toward Belonging to Community, where the four priority goals are to create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities; to help seniors to maintain their independence and stay active in the community; to help people living in vulnerable neighbourhoods to create positive change for themselves, their family and their neighbours; and to help bring immigrants and new Canadians together with employers to find jobs that match their skills:
- $2.7 million to 46 programs delivered by 34 agencies
- $1.2 million to CWIs Hire Immigrants Ottawa (HIO) and the Employment Accessibility Resource Network (EARN) and other Priority Goal Supports

$4 million will go toward Turning Lives Around, where the three priority goals are to get more homeless people off the street and into permanent, stable housing; to ensure more people with mental health and addiction issues have access to the help they need; and to give people in crisis a place to turn when they need help the most:
- $3 million to 32 programs delivered by 28 agencies
- $624 thousand to Priority Goal Supports
- $363 thousand in Targeted Community Investments

An additional $1.3 million will support United Way’s priority goal of strengthening the capacity of the social services sector in Ottawa:
- $685 thousand will go to 7 programs delivered by 7 agencies
- $633 thousand to Priority Goal Supports including the C3 Centre

Beyond investments in support of United Way’s three focus areas, $12.2 million will go directly to more than 4100 other registered Canadian charities at the request of donors who use the United Way campaign as an efficient way to give to other causes they care about.

Lawrence Greenspon, Chair of United Way’s Community Services Cabinet, highlighted United Way’s focus on results: “The need in this community is great, and growing. That’s why we set goals, and why we are committed to working in areas where we are best-positioned to make a real difference. To focus on helping people today, and to get to the heart of some of the challenges that face our city so that we can begin to build true solutions to these challenges.”

In addition to thanking the more than 70 volunteers for their work in assessing agency proposals, Jeffrey Dale, Chair of the Community Investment Committee mandated to direct and oversee the Call for Proposals, spoke of the results of this year’s Call: “By far, the hardest part of our job is to decide which proposals will receive funding and how much funding that will be, with many worthwhile programs vying for limited resources. We received a total of 193 proposals from 105 agencies for funding totaling $17.2 million. With more than $3 million already committed to agency programs through our first Call, we had nearly three dollars in requests for every dollar available to spend.”

In spite of an anticipated revenue drop from the previous year of close to $2.5 million, funded agency programs will see a total reduction in funding of just under $340 thousand. United Way has reduced staff by 13 positions and is pursuing cost-reduction measures in other areas.

Community Investment 2012-2013 - Graph (PDF, 293 KB)
Priority Goal Program Investments
Call for Proposals Backgrounder Priority (PDF, 303 KB)
Goal Assessors - Backgrounder (PDF, 786 KB)
Priority Goal One-Pager (PDF, 162 KB)

About United Way:
United Way Ottawa’s mission is to bring people and resources together to build a strong, healthy, safe community for all. We are best known for our work raising and distributing funds to community agencies that help people. But our true business is engagement, providing ways for contributors — be they donors, partners or others — to achieve their aspirations for our community through United Way. Our purpose is to improve people’s lives today and to create enduring, measurable and meaningful social change in our community.

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For more information, please contact:

Barry Keegan, Manager Media Relations and Communications
United Way Ottawa
Phone: 613-228-6709; Mobile: 613-294-8128
E-mail: bkeegan@unitedwayottawa.ca
Twitter: @barry_keegan

i) Campaign total will be subject to a pledge loss provision of $1.25 million in 2012-13.

ii) Community Wide Initiatives (CWIs) are partnerships that bring a wide range of stakeholders including agencies, governments and others together to address community challenges. Funding for these initiatives comes from the campaign, from government grants and other sources. United Way’s current CWIs are: Growing Up Great, Hire Immigrants Ottawa (HIO) and the Employer Accessibility Resource Network (EARN).

iii) Priority Goal Supports include other convening, research, public policy and advocacy work funded through the campaign and other sources. Examples include investment in the Community Information Centre of Ottawa for 211; dollar, data and partnership development contributions to the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study; Community Action Grants that are matched by the City to support neighbourhood action projects; and Youth Action Grants that support by-youth, for-youth community development projects.

iv) Targeted Community Investments (TCIs) are contributions by people or organizations looking to play a stronger role in achieving community results. They may support or enhance existing agency programs or they may support new programs delivered by agencies and other partners in the community.

Ottawa as a 100 Person Village

soakley — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:58:07 +0000

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Homepage - Lives Changed - Melissa - EN

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