Help set the course for your United Way

The Brown County United Way is looking for approximately 200 people to help plan its future by attending the first BCUW Community Planning Summit Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“This is an opportunity for people from every walk of life to come and help set the course for the Brown County United Way,” said Toni Loch, Brown County United Way president and chief executive officer. “There is a contagious attitude running through Brown County. This summit will take that energy and give United Way a roadmap into the future.”

While the United Way has sent invitations directly to community members, the organization welcomes requests to attend from any interested Brown County resident.

Participants will determine how the Brown County United Way will:

• Continue to build relationships that will make the organization most effective;
• Mobilize Brown County’s resources;
• Provide the best possible community service; and
• Communicate Brown County’s human services needs, and how lives can be improved.

Summit participants will employ a decision-making method used worldwide by both not-for-profits and large corporations known as appreciative inquiry.

This process, originally developed in 1980 by a graduate student and his advisor at Case Western Reserve University, places an emphasis on collecting many participants’ personal experiences and transforming them into a unified strategic plan.

“Appreciative inquiry is an ideal way to take the diverse views of our community and turn them into one cohesive whole,” Loch said. “When this summit is complete, we will have a plan that Brown County United Way volunteers and staff can put all of their energy behind, knowing that it is the will of the community.”

To attend the Brown County United Way Community Planning Summit, call: (920) 432-3393 or write to staff@browncountyunitedway.org.

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