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Decisions by Consensus

Each year, members of our community decide how United Way campaign donations to the General Fund will be distributed among participating agencies that submit program funding proposals. Through committees of volunteers, people like you review agency budgets, operations, and funding requests.

Donors who live or work in the towns of Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Lyndeborough, Merrimack, Milford, Mont Vernon, Nashua, and Wilton can serve on the committees, which meet February through April. For more information about becoming a community investment volunteer, click here.

To see where volunteers decided the money should go in 2010, see the 2009-10 Highlights.

For more information on the Community Investment Process, contact Ray Peterson at (603) 882-4011 or send email to: Ray@unitedwaynashua.org

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United Way is working to advance the common good by focusing on education, income, and health.

Your trust and confidence in us are very important. You can expect us to be accountable and transparent about our finances, and more importantly, we pledge to be accountable for delivering on our mission to mobilize the community to improve lives.

Community Assessment

Periodically, United Way facilitates a process that provides a snapshot of our area's health. Health is defined broadly as a state of complete well being -- physical, social and mental -- and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The extensive use of data from original and secondary sources makes this assessment the only compendium of health and human care issues for our region.

Greater Nashua Measures Up

United Way's volunteers use the resultsof the Community Assessment as the basis for funding decisions, with programs that specifically address issues highlighted in the Community Assessment being favored. Non-profit agencies use the assessment in developing grant proposals and strategic plans, and community service clubs use it to help set priorities for annual projects.

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Community Investment Stories

My Community Investment Experience - by Cindy Howe, BAE Systems

My 10 years on United Way's Community Investment Panels have been both educational and fulfilling. Learning how the process works from the campaign to the distribution of funds has helped me appreciate how my donation helps the greatest number of people. In no other setting would I have the opportunity to learn in detail about many of the great programs in this area. It also has provided me the opportunity to give back to the community where I grew up and raised my family.