About Us

Mission:Â To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities.

Vision:Â To work with diverse community stakeholders, partners and contributors to change community conditions and to improve people's lives.Â

We strategically engage and build relationships with diverse community stakeholders, contributors and partners to:

indentify COMMUNITY GOALS and concerns
choose a LIMITED NUMBER OF CRITICAL ISSUES
Develop IMPACT STRATEGIES that change community conditions to improve lives
IMPLEMENT impact strategies in partnership with others
Measure and communicate RESULTS, learn and improve

With our 16 partner agencies, we work to advance the common good by focusing on education, income and health.Â These are the building blocks for a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.Â We are working to create long-lasting community change by addressing the underlying cause of the most significant local issues.

Common focus areas include helping children and youth achieve their potential, promoting financial stability and independence and improving people's health.

Our goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of problems. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. We bring together people from all across the community - government, business, faith groups, nonprofits, the labor movement, ordinary citizens - to tackle the issues.Â Because we all win when a child succeeds in school, when a family becomes financially stable, when people have good health.