income

 

United Way of North Central Iowa Community Impact Team: INCOME

Minutes of Meeting:
07/15/2011 from 10 AM to Noon
Location:  United Way Conference Room

Present:

• Jennifer
  Kammeyer, United Way of North Central Iowa
• Barb Kellogg,
  North Iowa Community Action
• Bambi Urich,
  North Iowa Community Action
• Diane DiPietro
  Wilson, Iowa Legal Aid
• Jeanette Vasquez,
  AmeriCorps Volunteer with Iowa  Legal Aid
• Sherry Becker,
  North Iowa Vocational Services
• Mike Mahaffey,
  Opportunity Village
• Wendy Balles,
  North Iowa Community Action

 

Discussion Points:

 

DISCUSSION

• Reviewed new campaign video
• Reviewed comments from the Blog
  – not a lot of activity yet
• Child abuse Prevention Council
  members sat in on the HEALTH Community Impact Team discussion of
  indicators for preventing child abuse
• Reviewed minutes from last
  meeting – Bambi commented that it was very helpful to have Cheryl at our
  last meeting to get her perspective
• Jennifer – wanted to bounce
  something off the group – planning to begin working on the book – TRYING
  HARD IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH – but first have to focus on campaign as our
  top priority – would like to hire Lisa Yunek to come in to assist in
  facilitating each Community Impact Team through the next steps and to help
  us answer the question:  What are we
  going to ask that the United Way invest in next year? 
• Jennifer wants to release the
  next Letter of Intent by September 15^th – although we haven’t
  done enough background to see what is missing from our earlier work
  product – Lisa Yunek will walk us through an exercise that ASKS – What are
  we missing?  Is anything new coming
  down the pike right now?  What is
  new in the INCOME/HEALTH/EDUCATION areas?
  Is there someone out there doing it?  Can we talk to them about plugging in
  their work with ours? 
• The most important part of this
  next work – you are the experts – we want all the experts in the room –
  who is missing from the table?  We
  want to identify what indicators we want to measure next year – Letter of
  Intent is due from   agencies by
  October 15^th (?) – we are giving time to invite other partners
  in to be part of the work – we need to identify holes in our strategies –
  we want to put that together with the people we are missing right now – we
  want everyone to be on the same page when we are done in order to sell
  that to our volunteers – we want to go to the UW volunteers with a global
  number and how the INCOME team wants to invest UW dollars
• Sherry – I feel that we are
  already collaborating together…
• Bambi – How do we invite more
  people to the table to compete with us for funding? – My initial reaction
  is that we are all hurting for money and we have limited resources…
• Jennifer – we need to partner –
  why aren’t we talking about how DCAT money works together with ours?
• Bambi – it is also a problem
  when the Indicators seem to keep changing…
• Jennifer – I met with Mary
  Schissel and she saw lots of secondary indicators in everyone’s
  applications and letter of intent – she believes that she can graph both
  primary and secondary indicators – she also pointed out that many agencies
  still need to differentiate between process indicator and outcomes
  indicator –the MCYTF is working right now with the Data Divas to create a
  product for us to use – we need to know when and what you can report on
  and what you are doing – we need to start walking through TRYING IS NOT
  GOOD ENOUGH – to plan for what strategies we need to get things done –
  is that too pie in the sky for you?
• Dianne – yes
• Two indicators we have
  identified in the INCOME group are:
  PEOPLE WILL BECOME EMPLOYED AND WILL INCREASE INCOME  and PEOPLE WILL MAINTAIN THEIR JOBS
• Jennifer – what can we learn
  from Evidence-Based work products? (like the SEARCH project that NIVC is
  taking part in…)
• Sherry – we all face the same
  challenge that indicators are measured in different fiscal years depending
  on the funding source that is supporting those outcomes…
• Jennifer – Are we willing to put
  more money into these things if they are not producing results?  Why are we all meeting with different
  groups?  I don’t need to own it – we
  can just do report outs…
• Jennifer – On September 15^th,
  the RFP will be released with same indicators as in the past – agencies
  will have 30 days to prepare a 3-page Letter of Intent – does it need to
  be that long?  Can we shorten
  it? 
• Jennifer – The Letters of Intent
  are due back to the United Way by October 15^th– right after
  that each Community Impact Team will meet to decide – do we know enough
  about this program?  Where will this
  plug into our strategies?  Who else
  should we ask to submit a Letter of intent?
• Jennifer – Ultimately this group
  (each Community Impact Team) will decide who will submit a full
  application?  What will that look
  like?  Can we make that simpler?
• Sherry – We won’t need the
  Outcomes piece because we will all be measuring the same thing, right? And,
  what about a simplified budget too?
• Mike – Are we all going to be
  measuring the same things?
• Sherry – We decided that there
  will be a standard set of Outcome Indicators for everyone and everyone
  will measure what they can – we understand that they may not be able
  measure all of the Indicators that are identified…
• Bambi – Yes, we talked about
  that at the last meeting…
• Mike – Going back to the process
  – do we start with the full list and go from there?
• Bambi – We need the list of
  indicators and each agency can choose the things they can measure…
• Jennifer – Lisa will help you do
  some exploring – are we missing anyone?
• Mike – The program that is
  measuring more looks like it will be accomplishing more…
• Bambi – But in our presentation
  to the United Way Volunteers – we are going for the money as a whole/as a
  group of agencies and  we (the
  Community Impact Team) decides how the money will be allocated…
• Dianne – at the same time – when
  you talk about dividing the money – I see backroom deals going on…
• Sherry – I can’t …
• Barb – Why should we invite
  others who are not willing to demonstrate their level of commitment by
  already attending our meetings?
• Jennifer  – if there is somebody who isn’t
  participating – I have to put an RFP out so that people can respond – but
  it is all coming to this group – maybe someone will come out of nowhere
• Sherry – That will be our
  decision – can they leverage more dollars for us or do we look for new
  solutions from ourselves?
• Jennifer – I don’t want the old
  system anymore – I want you guys to decide – what is the most relevant
  thing to happen in the INCOME area?
  Have you felt you are being punished?  We know it is going to take time to
  figure this out – other United Ways have decided to transition into this
  model over time but we decided that we wanted to do things differently…
• Jennifer – we are planning to
  raise more than 1 million dollars this year…
• Mark – the outcomes in the notes
  from last meeting – that’s what we are keeping, right?
• Sherry– are we going to
  standardize Outcome Measures/Indicators? –
• Barb – I keep going back to
  Cheryl’s statement – that as community volunteers – we want basics
• Jennifer – our volunteers are
  people who don’t want to be the experts – they want to have small or basic
  indicators that are completely understandable…
• Dianne – So we are going to sort
  through the indicators and sort out the “BS”?
• Jennifer – we want to build
  everyone’s trust that – that we have the experts and that we have it under
  control…
• Sherry – Should we have a set of
  primary indicators and if yes, should we choose secondary indicators that
  we could also decide to measure? We could report those secondary measures
  to this group (the Community Impact Team) – to support the success of our
  strategies…
• Jennifer – Right now we are
  doing preliminary indicators from the applications that we received – we
  haven’t even talked about the secondary indicators that were on the
  applications – we need to map it out – we need to see a flow chart – to
  understand where are we investing dollars and who is doing what – people
  need to see where they can engage in the process…Mary Schissel  has all of our indicators and she is
  graphing it out for us…and she will delineate what is a process outcome and
  what is primary outcome
• Sherry – Verbage (or the
  language that we use) is a big deal…
• Jennifer – exactly and that is
  the 3^rd chapter in this book – we all want to get on the same
  page – that’s what I need to sell to donors – this is what we are going to
  do to improve job skills…
• Sherry – We want to know what to
  write to…
• Jennifer – then you talk to each
  other – and decide – you do this and you do that…I don’t need a 17-page
  application from everyone –I  am
  working on simplifying application next
• Mark – Are we all comfortable
  with these indicators or do we want to refine them?
• Sherry – that is what we will be
  doing with Lisa…
• Barb– we have to sit down with
  Lisa before September 15^th –
• Jennifer – She will meet with
  each group individually – the Data Divas will be meeting with you as well
  to determine whether what you are measuring will work or not… there is
  nothing clear about anything we are doing – it’s a wing and a prayer “– we
  just have to get moving…
• Sherry – Sounds like we will be
  re-hashing – I felt that’s what we did at Trinity last year…
• Dianne – I was at the Senior
  Center about 4 weeks ago – and I ran into Brenda Schmitt from ISU – we
  were talking some time back during our Community Impact Team meeting about
  doing a Poverty Simulation – one can’t be put together that quickly – but
  she is excited about the possibility and we were thinking about doing it
  in January sometime – I’m bringing it to the table now– to see if the
  INCOME group has any interest in doing it – folks come in after being
  invited to the simulation– it is experiential learning to help the general
  public learn what it is like to live in poverty…
• Barb – it is a big project – you
  need a lot of volunteers – and a big room – the volunteers need to be
  trained…
• Sherry – Could people from our
  own organization participate?
• Jennifer – people from our Board
  did one during our Board Retreat and thought it was a really good idea…
• Dianne – it would be great to
  get a place like Music Man Square…
• Jennifer – one more thing – I
  have a Venture grant that came through last year – for the NANO Loan
  Program through the Pappajohn Center at NIACC for seed money for people to
  start a small business for Women and Minorities – we awarded them $20,000
  last year with the stipulation that they obtain matching funding that they
  were applying for – unfortunately, they did not receive the grant funding
  that they applied for and they want to know if we will still fund the
  application…I will send out copies of their application for everyone to
  review…

 

 

• Group Consensus Regarding the
  Venture Grant Application- since their application has significantly
  changed due to the loss of outside funding – they should reapply…however,
  everyone will review the application before the next meeting…

Measureable Outcomes for INCOME
determined at previous Community Impact Team Meetings:

Result #1:
People have the resources and skills to become and remain
self-sufficient.  (North Iowa Community
Action and Iowa Legal Aid)

Outcome Indicators:

• Obtain
  or Increase Household Income
• Improve
  Employment Skills
• Increase
  Financial Management Skills

Result #2:
People have access to resources in a crisis to stabilize their
situation.  (Trinity House of Hope and
American Red Cross)

Outcome Indicators:

• People have
  access to Basic Necessities (Food, Clothing, Shelter) during a crisis – at the
  time of the loss of household income or the loss of the household’s housing or
  home
• People are able
  to obtain temporary shelter or stable housing (non-shelter housing) during a
  crisis defined as the loss of household income or of the household’s home or
  housing

 

Result #3:
People will have skills and resources to get a job.  (Opportunity Village and NIVC)

Outcome Indicators:

• The number of
  people who complete job skills training
• The number of
  people obtaining jobs (either part-time or full-time employment)
• The number of
  people retaining jobs (either part-time or full-time employment)

 

The reality is that all United Way funding is
“blended” with other sources of funding to target vulnerable populations and to
generate community and/or agency outcomes.

 

QUESTION:  What
should we be advocating for in terms of public policy changes?

 

 

Here is the information/link
to the Video recommended by Sherry Becker:

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

INCOME Community Impact Team Decisions:

• We will not
  require agencies to report their Budget/Expenditures by County
• We will try to
  identify COMMON DEMOGRAPHICS that we all collect that can be reported
• Our NEXT Meeting
  will be on

 

Check out the United Way website and the Community
Impact menu and there is an invitation to join the Community Impact BLOG –
where information about the meetings and meeting participants is being stored –
it will require you to register with WordPress.com …

 

United Way of North Central Iowa Community Impact Team: INCOME

Minutes of Meeting:
07/15/2011 from 10 AM to Noon

Location:  United Way Conference Room

Additional Materials: Self-Sufficiency Matrix

Present:

• Jennifer Kammeyer, United Way of North Central Iowa
• Barb Kellogg, North Iowa Community Action
• Bambi Urich, North Iowa Community Action
• Lori Brandt, North Iowa Community Action
• Sherry Becker, North Iowa Vocational Center
• Mike Mahaffey, Opportunity Village
• Jan Albright, Renew Center/Mental Health Center
• Amber Morud, Charlie Brown Daycare (new Executive Director)
• Joey Van Zomeren, Northern Lights HomelessShelter/Trinity House of Hope
• Ken Zimmerman, Northern Lights Homeless Shelter/Trinity House of Hope
• Christina Martinez, Intern at Trinity House of Hope
• Cheryl Kurtzleben, Manufacturer’s Bank and Trust, Forest City

ANNOUNCEMENT:

• Emily Willett, new United Way staff member

DISCUSSION POINTS:

1. 1.       How will we measure Outcomes?
2. 2.       What makes the most sense to non-agency community leaders and members of the United Way Board of Directors?
3. 3.       Does “Child Care” play a role in the INCOME community impact area?
4. 4.       What can we measure to show progress towards goals/outcomes?
5. 5.       What do we need to include for client demographics to describe who we are serving?
6. 6.       How do we demonstrate the impact of United Way funding in helping people gain EARNED income from EMPLOYMENT?
7. 7.       What additional information should we report?
   1. What are the problems?
   2. Where are the barriers?
   3. Where does Child Care or Daycare fit?
8. 8.        How often should we submit reports?
9. 9.       What do we want to measure and when?
10. 10.   What is enough?
11. 11.   What should our future strategies be?
12. 12.   What are emerging issues?

DISCUSSION:

• Cheryl – Outcome Indicators and Outcome Reports/Measurements should be easily measured and easily understood by anyone not associated with the program.
• Cheryl – Outcome measurement can be confusing and overwhelming for the general public and United Way community leaders to process and to understand.
• Jennifer – The United Way’s position is that each Community Impact Team can choose to do whatever they want to and/or measure whatever they decide…
• Ken – There is a difference between measuring wings flapping (process outcomes) and measuring the number of birds flying (outcomes measurement) – did they get housing or not?  Did they get skill training or not?  Did they get a job or not?  Did they keep a job or not?
• Bambi – the frustration for our workers is that they do so much but are only being asked to count one outcome measurement…
• Sherry – What can we measure to demonstrate progress towards an outcome?
• Lori – some examples of success that I would measure for some families include:  they attended work every day that they were scheduled or they went from part-time to
  full-time employment or they are no longer receiving food stamps because their income increased…
• Barb – NICAO currently measures outcomes on a continuum
  – by obtaining information at Entry and Exit from the FaDSS and Community Partners Programs – Barb distributed copies of the Life Skills Matrix that NICAO uses to measure progress across a continuum of outcome categories including:  Housing, Income, Education, Health, Child Care, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, etc.
• Ken -  we are all also currently utilizing blended funding to pay for the actual cost of services that we provide – I like the idea of using a Lippert scale like the one on the Life Skills Matrix to measure the status of individuals or families over time – the real issue is how you maintain the improvements in status over time…
• Sherry – do we care how many men or women that we serve?  Or are we more interested in new people we are serving, who gets training, who gets a job, and what their projected income is?  Cheryl, as a community leader – what are you interested in seeing on our outcome reports?
• Cheryl – the reports we see are often confusing and overwhelming – I think we are most interested in what is easily measured – I believe that the United Way wants to see the impact of United Way funding in helping people gain earned income not in helping people obtain income from entitlements like SSI…
• Jennifer – there are systems out there to take care of those people…
• Barb – expressed her frustration that the idea of helping people gain income from entitlement programs when they previously had no income – was not seen as positive
• Joey – confirmed that many of the people she serves are convicted felons who find it very difficult to find employment or to find work and many other clients appropriately are seeking SSI Disability as a source of income so that they will no longer be homeless…
• Jennifer – whatever you measure – keep it simple
• Bambi – we also have to report outcomes for funding sources for a variety of fiscal years – some of which are overlapping – it all makes a difference in what we tell our staff we want to measure and how and how frequently we measure it…
• Mike – I want to talk a little about the United Way Blog – I am concerned about some people using the Blog to have essentially an on-going meeting about issues that others may not be able to participate in because they don’t have access to the required technology – I’m also a little gun-shy about who gets information in each organization and that because some information is sent just to the Director – this is just one more opportunity to miss something…
• Jennifer – How about if we plan to review the comments that have come in on the Blog at the beginning of each meeting?  People who can’t get to the meetings need to know what is going on and the Blog is one way for them to participate and our Board members will also be checking out the Blog to see and understand what conversations are going on…
• Bambi – suggested that we consider using Skype in order to provide access to meetings…
• Barb – also suggested checking out Google Groups as a way of providing an on-going conversation or mechanism to ask questions and to receive responses – through email…

 

OUTCOME
MEASUREMENT DECISIONS:

1.       Reporting
Schedule:  Every 6 Months

1. April 1, 2011 through September 30, 2011 – DUE by October 31, 2011 – Review Outcome Reports at November Community Impact Team Meeting
2. October 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012 – DUE by April 30, 2012 – Review Outcome Reports at May Community Impact Team Meeting
3. The Community Impact Team will know what strategies are working by the end of September and will be able to begin planning for what strategies to fund for the next fiscal year.

2.     Outcomes
Reports should include the following information:

1. How many individual adults were served?
2. How many individual children (0 to 18 years of age) were served?
3. How many households were served?
4. County of Residence for Household
5. How many adult individuals with disabilities?
6. How many children with disabilities?
7. Barriers to Providing Program Service (Bullet Points)
8. Emerging Issues (Bullet Points)
9. Brief Narrative (Success Story)
10. Outcome Indicators
11. How many (new) people received service?
12. How many people successfully completed financial management training?
13. How many people successfully completed job skills training?
14. How many people maintained job skills through training?
15. How many people increased their income through employment (full or part-time)?
16. What is the projected increase in household income?
17. How many people obtained part-time employment?
18. How many people obtained full-time employment?
19. How many people obtained shelter?

United Way Kick-Off Event

• August 18^th from 4PM to 7PM at Music Man Square
• Focus on kids returning to school and what they need
• The Salvation Army Back-Pack School Supply Drive is the week before the kick-off event
• Plan to provide free gym shoes to kids going back to school through contributions
• Hoping to provide free hair-cuts (maybe from La James)…
• Maybe free toothbrushes and toothpaste, maybe deodorant and feminine hygiene products
• (Free) Library Cards

NEXT MEETING:    August 5, 2011 from 10:00 AM to Noon in United Way Conference Room

NOTES FROM INCOME MEETING 6/22/11

• Jennifer Kammeyer, United Way of North Central Iowa
• Barb Kellogg, North Iowa Community Action
• Bambi Urich, North Iowa Community Action
• Lori Brandt, North Iowa Community Action
• Joey VanZomeren, Trinity House of Hope/Northern Lights Homeless Shelter
• Maria Anderson, Trinity House of Hope/Northern Lights Homeless Shelter
• Ken Zimmerman, Trinity House of Hope/Northern Lights Homeless Shelter
• Diane DiPietro Wilson, Iowa Legal Aid
• Alice Phillips, ARC
• Sherry Becker, North Iowa Vocational Services

Discussion Points:

• What are you already reporting to other funding
  sources?
• What outcomes are you currently reporting?
• How often are you making reports to other
  funding sources?
• What is the frequency of the outcome reports
  that you are already providing?
• What are common outcomes or indicators that
  everyone is already reporting?
• What barriers have you or do you experience in
  reporting outcomes?

Quotation from
Jennifer:  Worry pulls clouds over today’s sunshine…”

NOTE:  The United Way’s internet server and computers have been down all week in case anyone has been experiencing any difficulties reaching them…

DISCUSSION

• Both Sherry and Barb made the point that it is very difficult to extrapolate just the people or numbers served with United Way funding from the larger pool of total individuals and households served by the organization or a specific program administered by the agency.
• Barb also pointed out that it may be challenging but it is possible to identify the number of individuals and/or householdsserved with United Way funds by the county of residence when you are simply identifying “who” or “how many” received financial assistance from United Way funds but it is almost impossible to determine the number “by county” when we are looking at salaries and benefits for people who routinely serve North Iowa Community Action’s entire regional service area…
• Jennifer replied “that it will be up to this group of Counselors and whatever United Way Leaders or community volunteers participate in the meetings to decide WHAT will be reported, WHEN or HOW OFTEN those reports will be due, and HOW the budget/or financial information about how the allocation is used by the agency will be reported and WHEN…”
• Jennifer went on to state ”that since the United Way is not purchasing “units of service” this year, that we (the agencies) don’t have to pick out “just the individuals and/or households served with United Way funds” but rather – HOW MANY individuals or households we can report that achieved the OUTCOME that we are reporting…”
• Jennifer stated that it will be up to each community impact group (HEALTH, INCOME, and EDUCATION) to determine which strategies have been and will be effective in the future and it will be the responsibility of the community impact teams to determine WHERE the funding will go next year or WHICH agency or agencies will receive HOW MUCH funding for WHICH strategies or OUTCOMES…”
• It will be up to us to tell the United Way Leaders (Campaign Volunteers) – HOW MUCH we need to get the job done and then it will be up to the United Way Counselors/Community Impact Teams to determine WHAT and WHO will be funded once the funds are raised through the campaign…In particular, Mike Castle with Northwest Mutual and Craig Miller with First Citizen’s Bank are the United Way Leaders assigned to the INCOME team…

OUTCOMES to be Measured:

Result #1:  People have the resources and skills to become and remain self-sufficient.  (North Iowa Community Action and Iowa Legal Aid)

Outcome Indicators:

• Obtain or Increase Household Income
• Improve Employment Skills
• Increase Financial Management Skills

Result #2:  People have access to resources in a crisis to stabilize their situation.  (Trinity House of Hope and American Red Cross)

Outcome Indicators:

• People have access to Basic Necessities (Food, Clothing, Shelter) during a crisis – at the time of the loss of household income or the loss of the household’s housing or home
• People are able to obtain temporary shelter or stable housing (non-shelter housing) during a crisis defined as the loss of household income or of the household’s home or housing

Result #3:  People will have skills and resources to get a job.  (Opportunity Village and NIVC)

Outcome Indicators:

• The number of people who complete job skills training
• The number of people obtaining jobs (either part-time or full-time employment)
• The number of people retaining jobs (either part-time or full-time employment)

The reality is that all United Way funding is “blended” with other sources of funding to target vulnerable populations and to generate community and/or agency outcomes.

QUESTION:  What should we be advocating for in terms of public policy changes?

DISCUSSION continued:

• Ken Zimmerman stated that the way he looks at “self-sufficiency” is by asking the question – does this person or household have a personal plan for recovery?  And that what we need to be looking at is how that individual or household is able to demonstrate progress towards completing their personal recovery plan in the areas of INCOME, SKILLS TRAINING, and HOUSING…
• Barb described the Self Sufficiency Matrix that North Iowa Community Action utilizes that measures growth in (17) separate Domains including:  Housing, Food, Health Care, Mobility, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Physical Health, Income, Employment, Parenting Skills, Child Care, Children’s Education, Legal, Life Skills, Support Network, Safety and Energy Assistance.
• Jennifer commented that “that is the reason that we (this group) is trying to simplify the process of Outcomes Measurement and Reporting for the purposes of the United Way because, in general, that is too much information for non-experts to absorb and/or to understand…
• Sherry asked whether it was an issue that individual agencies may be reporting services provided for the same individuals or families in some situations because collectively, we serve many of the same clients…is that duplication of services?
• Barb responded that “that is why we are measuring COMMUNITY IMPACT – we each provide unique services to many of the same people but it is the fact that they receive unique services from a variety of providers that it makes it possible for them to become successful and to achieve many of the outcomes that we will be reporting…it is NOT a bad thing
  for agencies to serve some of the same people…!

MOBILIZATION TOUR will now be a MOBILIZATION EVENT:  August 19th

• Jennifer stated that the original vision for the Mobilization Tour/s planned for the week of August 15^th through August 19^th has changed as it occurred to the United Way that it
  might be more efficient to plan ONE event on ONE day that everyone could attend…
• So the new plan is to have a Mobilization Event at Music Man Square on Friday, August 19^th followed by the United Way Day of Action and then the United Way Campaign…
• The Mobilization Event would be a Health and Human Services Fair giving each agency an opportunity to showcase their clients, services and outcomes for the benefit of all of those who are in attendance at the Fair…
• Sherry Becker told the group about a wonderful video that she had just seen that she thought would be a wonderful resource for all of the United Way Counselors and Leaders and maybe we should consider showing the U-Tube Video at the Mobilization Event – she promised to email a link to the video out to the members of the team so that we can review the video before the next meeting – the point of the video is that is it not as important to know the HOW and WHAT of what we do (or what the United Way funds)
  as it is to know WHY it is important…

Here is the information/link to the Video recommended by
Sherry Becker:

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

INCOME Community
Impact Team Decisions:

• We will not require agencies to report their Budget/Expenditures by County
• We will try to identify COMMON DEMOGRAPHICS that we all collect that can be reported
• Our NEXT Meeting will be on July 15^th at 10:00 in the United Way Conference Room

Check out the United Way website and the Community Impact menu and there is an invitation to join the Community Impact BLOG – where information about the meetings and meeting participants is being stored – it will require you to register with WordPress.com …

Notes from Community Impact Meeting – May 19, 2011
Author: Barb Kellogg

Our goal is not to reduce duplication but to enhance partnerships.

MOBILIZATION TOUR: 3rd week of August, 2011 – 4 to 5 hour site visits or activities.
COUNSELORS – Subject Matter Experts
Leaders – Community/Campaign Volunteers
Subject Matter Experts need to tell us what our strategies should be and need to sell ideas to leaders.

INCOME Community Impact Team – Suggestion: that we view ourselves as “Community Partnerships Protecting Families” just like the Child Welfare Decategorization community planning groups view themselves as “Community Partnerships Protecting Children”.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN: Who are we missing?  Counselors should bring/invite people to next meeting.

1. What service providers are missing?
   - DHS
   - Mason City Housing Authority
   - North Iowa Regional Housing Authority
   - Veteran’s Affairs
   - County CPC
   - Consumer Credit Counseling Services
   - Mercy’s Community Benefits Ministry
   - Proteus
   - Elderbridge
   - Economic Development
   - Iowa Workforce Development
   - County General Relief
   - Community Kitchen
   - Food Banks
   - Bankers
   - Salvation Army
   - Ministerial Association
   - IVRS
   - SSA
   - Chambers
   - NIACC
2. Ideas for Mobilization Tour
   -  Poverty Simulation
   -  Bridges Out of Poverty Training