COMMUNITY MATTERS
		UWSL Plays a Unique Role in the Public Policy Arena

United Way of Salt Lake has adopted a powerful new mission focused on solving?not just treating?our community?s most serious social problems.

Looking beyond just being a fundraiser and fund distributor, our new mission broadens our approach to include other important assets, in particular the many talented and resourceful individuals and organizations in our community who are equally invested in solving community problems. Our mission, which is to bring people and resources together to solve our communities? most serious social problems, clarifies a new business framework that we knew would require us to broaden our strategies and reach. After all, finding solutions ultimately means changing the very conditions that give rise to the problems we see every day.

Because none of these problems exist in isolation, no one organization operating alone can solve them. It takes all of the right individuals and organizations from every sector of our community coming together to understand and fix them. United Way has always been a natural convener, bringing together our corporate partners with the people and organizations on the front lines of social service. In moving forward, United Way of Salt Lake is teaming up with new partners by becoming more active in the public policy arena and engaging policy makers and legislators in a combined effort to create change where change is most needed. (Read the full article)
 
 Deborah S. Bayle
 President and CEO