The Community Connections E-mail Group

Fostering Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination

The Brown County United Way and Start Smart – The Early Childhood Council are pleased to announce the launch of a free e-mail group for all agencies, organizations, and individuals providing human services in Brown County.

The Community Connections E-mail Group has two main purposes:

• To offer a forum in which providers can easily communicate with one another by posting questions about local services, grants information and other funding opportunities, program openings, and additional items of common interest.

• To give providers an opportunity to collaborate and coordinate across agencies and organizations through increased communication.

Are you having trouble finding transportation or a translator for a client? Do you want to share your organization’s newsletter, or information about a parenting workshop, meeting or training seminar? Is your agency hosting an upcoming community event?

The Community Connections E-mail Group offers an opportunity to post this information and much more. Anytime you have a question or announcement, all you have to do is send an e-mail to connect@browncountyunitedway.org and this message will be routed to an entire community of your colleagues within the day.

The e-mail group exists as a service to you. It is a work in progress, so please do not hesitate to share your ideas and comments. You can join by sending a request to connect@browncountyunitedway.org; the more people who sign up and become active participants, the more effective and informative it will be.

Thank you for all that you do to improve the quality of life for everyone in Brown County!

Community Connections E-mail Group Information and User Tips:

1. Please remember to include your name and contact information in the text of all messages you send to make it easy for colleagues to get in touch with you.
2. If you would like to sign up for the e-mail group, please send a message to connect@browncountyunitedway.org.
3. Your e-mail address will not be shared with other organizations. The e-mail group list will not be visible when messages are posted to the larger audience.
4. connect@browncountyunitedway.org will appear in your e-mail inbox as the “sender” of all messages to and from the e-mail group.
5. You may unsubscribe at any time by sending a request to connect@browncountyunitedway.org. Please include the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line.
6. If you receive duplicate postings/messages from the group, let us know by sending an e-mail to connect@browncountyunitedway.org and we will try our best to fix the problem.
7. Please avoid sending attachments and instead try to state the information you wish to share in the text of your e-mail message.   Sometimes several duplicate messages are generated when attachments are included, because the information gets bogged down on our server and it is subsequently re-sent.  Also, many e-mail group members are not able to receive attachments at their workplaces. If you have an attachment that you need to publicize, such as a calendar or flyer, we could potentially post it on United Way's website, or you could suggest that people contact you to obtain a copy.
8. If you have questions about the Community Connections E-mail Group, send an e-mail to connect@browncountyunitedway.org, or contact Lisa Clark at lisa@browncountyunitedway.org or Sarah Inman at sarah@browncountyunitedway.org.