Special Initiatives
Share the Warmth
Share the Warmth is a home winterization project created by United Way of Chester County to bring attention to a core housing-related problem. Due to limited resources, many families are forced to choose between basic needs or keeping themselves warm and safe in the winter. Share the Warmth coordinates local service agencies to provide home improvements and services that allow families to keep their homes safe and warm while maintaining homeownership and obtaining basic necessities.
Financial Literacy
United Way of Chester County is reaching out to provide financial literacy programs advocating money and credit-management training. Our financial literacy partners focus on how individuals can avoid unfair lending practices, build assets and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
Early Childhood Initiatives
United Way of Chester County invests countless resources in researching unique, proven methods for providing early childhood intervention. Specific programs of interest include early education, resources for special needs children, parenting resources, and many more.
Youth Leadership Development Program
Designed to promote and mobilize youth leadership, this initiative works to improve the overall quality of life for young people throughout the county. This intensive leadership skills development program engages youth in candid dialogue around issues related to teen health, economics, education and community and helps them develop solution areas to improve programming for youth. Participants are taught to disseminate this information in public forums with educators, service providers, policymakers and community leaders.
Days of Caring
UWCC Volunteer Center assesses the needs of non-profit organizations and matches volunteers from all sectors with appropriate projects. Each year corporations, service clubs and families engage in community service activities to help and support non-profit agencies in activities ranging from therapeutic swimming with preschoolers to database analysis and other IT work to construction of affordable housing.
Chester County Leadership Connection
A partnership of UWCC, West Chester University and the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry, Chester County Leadership Connection is specifically designed to educate, inform and guide local corporate and community leaders to placement on non-profit boards of directors. These placements build a strong foundation for excellence in education, community services, cultural institutions and government entities, all of which can take agencies to a higher level of excellence in the provision of high quality and responsive service delivery. Seminars are taught by field experts in subjects including principle-centered leadership, strategic planning, board governance, board fiduciary responsibility, fundraising, non-profit fiscal management, public policy/advocacy and diversity.
In addition, the program offers public policy forums for board members and executive leadership of non-profit agencies where local, state and federal policymakers engage in open dialogue around how public policy affects the system of health and human services offered in Chester County.
For more information, visit www.ccleadershipconnection.org.