For over 45 years your local United Way has raised funds from the community and distributed them to area health and human service organizations to help the needy and less fortunate in the area.

As Grand Forks and East Grand Forks grow, the needs in our area also grow and become more complex. Channeling money from workplace campaigns to agencies does not sufficiently address our community's problems.

In order to make a real impact with limited resources, there needs to be a cultural shift from only funding the needs of agencies and programs to investing in strategies and collaborations (a number of agencies and programs working together) that bring meaningful community change.

This is where United Way's Community Impact Model steps in:

United Way wants its donors and the entire Greater Grand Forks community to know that it is focusing on what matters most... bottom line results to improve people's lives.