Now available on the NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance website is an EITC estimator - an easy-to-use tool to help individuals determine if they may be eligible for the Federal, State, and New York City EITCs. Go to the OTDA home page (http://www.otda.state.ny.us/). The calculator can be accessed on the right hand side of the home page.
2009 Community Impact Roundtable
The 2009 Community Impact Roundtable, "Advancing the Common Great", was heald on August 13 for 72 United Way staff, volunteers and community partners from around New York State as well as Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Meg Plantz, from United Way Worldwide spent the morning with us focusing on Advancing the Common Good, the goals for education, income and health, and what it means (and does not mean) for local United Ways. Meg's presentation and a summary of the evaluations can be found here. CI roundtable evaluation summary; Power Point presentation.
Please share further comments, as well as your ideas for the 2010 roundtable with Mary Shaheen (shaheenm@uwnys.org)
Promising Practices for Achieving Impact
It is widely held that community impact is a journey. What is not as widely acknowledged is that in this transformation process, many United Ways have already made significant progress in achieving impact. Sharing these efforts can help colleagues address similar challenges in their own communities. Towards that end, several United Ways have provided the following examples of Community Impact:
United Way of the Greater Capital Region: Born Learning
If you have a good example of community impact at your United Way, please download this template in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Then fill it out with the information requested and send it to Mary Shaheen at shaheenm@uwnys.org.
