Agenda for Change volunteer reflections

United Way for Southeastern Michigan recently completed selection of new agency partners for the funding cycle 2008-2011. These partnerships represent the best of the best programs we could have selected to help us fulfill our mission of creating lasting, measurable results through our Agenda for Change and focus on education, income and basic needs.

Last year, we issued a request for proposals (RFPs) and subsequently received more than 360 responses, from 199 agencies and 91 collaboratives across southeast Michigan who were interested in working with us. The process of evaluating proposals and considering future partners for our Agenda work took a tremendous amount of effort on the part of United Way staff and over 130 volunteers representing the nonprofit, business, labor, faith-based, education and government sectors, among others, who served on 23 review committees.

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