Community Impact Application

Overview Community Chest vs Community Impact-why Release Date & Due Date Introduce of Application and Webform Walk Through Webform

Community Chest vs Community Impact Community Impact Model  Prioritize one or two community issues to address  Provide Education to broader community on the issue(s)  Dedicate Workforce campaign dollars to address the issues  Evaluation of success is based on the impact on community members  United Way serves as facilitator for leveraging resources (dollars, people, ideas, infrastructure) Community Chest Model  Dedicated Workforce and community campaign to raise funds  Dollars distributed annually to approved agencies  Evaluation of success was based on dollars raised  Limited collaboration or collective action to address specific community issues

Sedalia-Pettis County Community Impact Goal: Increase the Median Household Income in Pettis County by ????? Focus on Education: Early Childhood Education for all children Third Grade Reading levels Attendance rates 90%/90%

Grant Application Dates Open- February 15, 2016 Close Date- must be uploaded by 5 pm on March 18, 2016

CI Details The intent of the United Way Community Impact funding is to support efforts around: Readiness for kindergarten Improving third grade reading levels Decreasing chronic absences in school Applications for funding must align with at least one of these strategies and provide an explicit target outcome – specific improvements sought in the lives of the defined community population. Successful applications will incorporate evidence based practices or document best practices. Examples of evidence based practices can be found on the SPCUW website under the "Education" tab.

United Way Impact funds may not be spent: 1.To replace other funds currently being spent on this education initiative. 2.Capital campaigns, to purchase buildings or other real estate. 3.To reduce existing deficits. 4.To support the applicant’s out-of-county activities.

Disbursement of Funds to Grantees Successful applicants will receive 75% of their annual funding in July and 25% after the completion of the annual report. The subsequent annual funding will follow the annual and mid-year reviews.

Program Funding Request Form This is to communicate/document the program revenue specific to the program for which funding is sought-July to June over a three year period.

Program Report Form This is to be completed after each year of the grant to report: Activities and Services Outputs Program Outcomes Indicators

Budget Report Form This is to be completed after each year of the grant to report: How the grant dollars were utilized.

Community Impact Participation Agreement This will be awarded to the successful application and will be the MOU between the SPCUW and organization implementing the CI goals.

Steps for Accessing Grant Application Step 1: Go to Step 2: Click on “Our Work” and select “SPCUW Grant Applications”

Steps for accessing Application Continue Step 3: Click on CI Grant Application and you should see:

Steps for accessing Application Continue Step 4: Select the “login”login Step 5: Select Create New Account

Steps for accessing Application Continue Step 6: Complete the requested information and you will get the blue ribbon represented here Step 7: Check your and you will receive the following . Click on the link provided. Thank you for registering at Sedalia Pettis County UW. You may now log in by clicking this link or copying and pasting it to your browser: HQy9sWP1UxOLhArbulgGYjs This link can only be used once to log in and will lead you to a page where you can set your password. After setting your password, you will be able to log in at in the future using: username: ________________ password: ________________ HQy9sWP1UxOLhArbulgGYjs -- Sedalia Pettis County UW team

Steps for accessing Application Continue Step 8: Complete requested information. Please write down your username and password and place in a secure location. At this time there is not a way to retrieve either.

Steps for accessing Application Continue Step 9: Log Out Step 10: Scroll to bottom left hand of screen and log back in to activate username and password Step 11: Click on “Our Work” and select “SPCUW Grant Applications” Step 12: Select Community Impact Grant Application and begin to complete

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