1. Strengthening Families United Way of Metro Atlanta

2.  Purpose/Benefits: Why do it? What will the project and community gain?  Steps/Recommended Tools: What are the key steps in the process? How did you go about accomplishing this piece of work?  Advice/Lessons Learned/Keys to Success: What is your advice for other sites just starting this work?

3.  Strengthening Families focused its strategy on the area of income  Target: Employers who employ low to moderate wage workers  Utilized our United Way as a model to learn  Use HR as a vehicle to Strengthening Families  Set out to pilot what we learned

4.  Eases the Work  Same Language Different Dialect  Unified Voice – External Support  Built on a Solid Foundation that’s Sustainable

5.  Top Down – Bottom Up  From the CEO to General Staff  Take Your Vitamins Daily- AKA Game Plan  Report Out

6.  Building Relationships Takes Time  Big Bites, Little Bites  Smile as you pass folks during the race  Moving from the Back Burner to the Front