Letter of Intent Opens – October 17, 2022 at 8:00 a.m.
Letter of Intent Closes – October 31, 2022 at 11:59 p.m.
Invitations to apply – Early December
Impact Fund Application Opens – January 17, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.
Impact Fund Application Closes – February 21, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.
Grant Evaluation Committee Meetings – March and April 2023
United Way Board of Directors Meeting – May 25, 2023
United Way Award Letter Notification – June 1, 2023
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County announces its 2023-2025 Community Impact Fund Distribution process. The goal of this process is to award funds to programs operating in Lancaster County that move the community toward attaining United Way’s goals under its three pillars: Health, Education, and Financial Stability.
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County (UWLLC) has adopted the United Way Worldwide Impact Framework of Health, Education, and Financial Stability. Within the three Impact Areas, UWLLC has identified ten funding strategies. Each strategy has a specific definition, goals, and outcomes which funded programs are required to measure and report.
Agencies must meet the following eligibility requirements to apply for program funding:
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County uses a web-based grant management portal. In order to apply, agencies must register an account first. Please follow the instructions on the grant management portal to register and qualify your organization. For a step by step walk through, download this pdf tutorial.
The Letter of Intent is the first step in the United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County application process. The Letter of Intent will serve as a tool to assess an organization’s eligibility for program funding.
The Letter of Intent will be submitted through an online grant management portal. Both new and existing agencies must submit a Letter of Intent for each program to be eligible to submit a full application. Each Letter of Intent will be evaluated to ensure fit within United Way’s three pillars of Health, Education, and Financial Stability and the funding strategies that fall under each pillar.
Funding is distributed through ten United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County strategies. The strategies have been developed to achieve outcomes in the impact and/or emphasis areas. Each strategy has been defined, and includes program requirements, standards for eligibility, examples of program types and required and optional indicator measures.
Health
Education
Financial Stability
Purpose
These programs provide stability for victims of domestic violence, abuse and neglect through emergency and transitional housing and case management services, such as crisis services, advocacy and prevention, support and outreach, counseling and/or legal assistance.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs connect and mobilize resources to build community response and provide support to people affected by fires and disasters, natural or manmade.
Programs must demonstrate their fit into the Lancaster Emergency Operation Plan (LEOP), hold Memorandum(s) of Understanding (MOUs) related to emergency and disaster response and have a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs serve children and youth by providing behavioral and mental health intervention and prevention, clinical treatment, counseling and/or therapeutic case management.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
Programs provide support to help children and/or their parents meet an educational goal in the classroom or establish educational foundations. Successful programs use a research-based curriculum for program content and work closely with school teachers and administrators to monitor the students’ academic progress.
Types of Programs
Purpose
Programs support the development of social and emotional skills that children, adolescents and young adults need to be successful. Successful programs will maintain ongoing relationships and routine contact with clients and provide the opportunity for youth to form relationships with caring adults, build skills, exercise leadership and help their community. Programs, through research-based activities and programming, offer healthy social engagement and enriching experiences in order to prevent or reduce high or at-risk behaviors to encourage the success of the client.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
Out-of-school time programs offer a wide range of learning and enrichment activities plus nutritious meals that promote the physical, emotional, cognitive and social development of K-12 children and youth. Programs take place beyond the traditional school day, including before school, after school, holidays, weekends and summers in schools and community-based organizations.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs move individuals and families away from economic insecurity and toward stability by providing them with emergency food or other income supports. Programs also move clients toward independence by linking them to the resources they need to ultimately become economically secure and not rely on emergency services, through case management and/or direct referrals to other community resources.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs support individuals and families who are housing insecure by providing case management, emergency or transitional housing, financial assistance and barrier removal assistance.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs move individuals and families away from economic insecurity and toward stability by building their skills and increasing their employment mobility. Programs also help ensure participation by linking them to the resources they need through case management and/or direct referrals to other community resources.
Target Population
Types of Programs
Purpose
These programs move individuals and families away from economic insecurity and toward stability by enhancing their asset-building skills to increase their economic mobility. Programs also help ensure participation by linking them to the resources they need through case management and/or direct referrals to other community resources.
Target Population
Types of Programs