United Way Company Goals and Objectives

The United Way is an organization that is known worldwide. There are many goals that they are working toward including education. They work with local agencies to provide assistance to help children graduate from high school. They have set a reasonable goal to cut by half the number of young people who drop out of high school by 2018. It's an ambitious goal, but by utilizing their core strengths — a national network, committed partners and public engagement capacity they will achieve the goal.

The organization, upon further review of their web site, explains in detail their goals and objectives. They have set clear cut and concise goals that they will most definitely reach. They have set areas that they will focus on. They have an area called entering school ready to succeed. They stated that some 60% of the low-income children in Chattanooga, Tennessee were entering school without critical skills. In response, United Way of Greater Chattanooga created a public awareness campaign, a parent help line and a one-stop resource center, and engaged 50 community partners to provide information and hands-on help in poor neighborhoods. This is just one area the United Way is trying to reach their goal.

Another area they focus on is Read Proficiently By Fourth Grade. United Way Worldwide is deeply involved in the work to combat the dropout crisis through two key partnerships - with America's Promise, a leading national organization working on dropout prevention, and with the Ready by 21 Partnership, a national coalition dedicated to ensuring that all students are prepared for college and/or the world of work. This is an in-depth program to help the students graduate. In Dallas, Texas, The United Way of Dallas created Destination Graduation as an impact strategy to boost graduate because they had 40% of freshman that did not graduate.

The focus area of successfully transition to middle school, the United Way states that most high school dropout prevention efforts start in high school, which is too late. Students' academic achievement by 8th grade has a greater impact on college readiness than high school academic work. The United Way of Northeast Florida convened a focus issue partnership,