Needs Assessment
In the annual process of raising and distributing funds, United Way of Central Virginia is faced with difficult decisions. Among the most difficult are which agencies and programs to fund and how much to allocate to each. There are always much greater needs and more requests for funding than there is money to allocate. The annual fund distribution decision-making process is always accompanied by questions as to what criteria to use. Should past allocations guide current allocations? Are there serious community needs not being addresses? Have any programs outlived the needs for which they were created to address? Are some needs better addressed with support from sources other than United Way? How do we know what the needs are in the community? How do we order these needs into priorities?
It is difficult to arrive at answers to these and other questions, and many factors must be and are taken into account when seeking these answers. The following report, "An Assessment of Regional Well Being," focuses on those questions concerning the nature and extent of Central Virginia needs. The goal of this report is to assist UWCV in meeting this annual challenge.
Please email Joan Phelps or call 434-455-6906 if you have questions and/or input.
- An Assessment of Regional Well-Being
First Edition - 2006
Second Edition - 2007
Third Edition - 2008
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