UWCC Awarded $30,000 grant from Chatham County Government for Bold Goal

United Way was awarded $30,000 from the Chatham County Government’s annual nonprofit funding allocations for our Bold Goal work. The United Way Bold Goal project will end and prevent poverty for 2,000 people in 2,000 days, employing a strategic approach focused on collaboration, system change and targeted interventions.

We are continuing to design and will soon finalize our Bold Goal pilot program with our design cohort. Our design cohort partners include:

Chatham County Department of Social Services
Chatham County Schools and the McKinney Vento Program
Chatham Literacy
Communities in Schools
Partnership for Children
Salvation Army of Chatham
Uplift Chatham and Central Carolina Community College

The Bold Goal program is unique because no other agency is taking a collective approach to aligning services across sector and institution to meet a single community outcome. The direct service component of this work will be carried out by several community partners. However, the backbone organizing, and community convening is only being done by United Way of Chatham County. In fact, this was specifically the role United Way was asked to play during the four-month listening tour that was completed in 2023.

We are committed to the continued work of ensuring greater opportunities for households experiencing poverty in Chatham County, and we look forward to sharing details on our pilot program this fall.