COMMUNITY MATTERS
		Welcome to the New 'Making an Impact' Newsletter!

I am proud to welcome you to the first edition of UWSL’s "Making an Impact" eNewsletter. Through a partnership with Exoro Group, we are replacing our printed quarterly newsletter with this biweekly, online newsletter designed to provide a frequent, concise, and trusted source of information about our community’s most important economic, health, human service, and education needs. (Read the full article...)
 
 Deborah S. Bayle
 President and CEO

IMPACT MATTERS

Sound Research Leads to Focus on the Right Problems

Making a difference for our community begins with having a clear understanding of the challenges facing families, neighborhoods, schools and the broader community.

United Way of Salt Lake (UWSL) plays an important role in researching and communicating these challenges to the broader public so that together we can work to improve lives and strengthen communities. In our 2004 Community Assessment, independent research identified 17 priority problems facing our community – challenges ranging from domestic violence to transportation and lack of access to affordable housing and health care.

Underlying these priority needs, our research identified four “core issues” that contribute significantly to these “downstream” problems – insufficient income, people lacking life skills, inadequate child supervision, and barriers to education.

From this strong foundation, United Way of Salt Lake works collaboratively with 81 community partners, operating 164 high quality programs and five community level initiatives working to address the underlying causes of our communities’ most pressing problems.

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