Year in ReviewMichigan Association of United Ways

SECCMichigan State Employees Charitable Campaign

SECCThrough its partnership with United Ways across the State of Michigan and with other federations, MAUW has developed a statewide network of relationships with which SECC can leverage. This allows MAUW not only to carry out its function in Lansing, but provide key participation and support from every community across the state.

SECCTo maintain such a relationship, MAUW prides itself on providing clear communications to participants as well as consistent expectations to implement the high standards which SECC maintains across its partner charities.

SECCBy partnering with over 1200 charities, the Michigan SECC is able to leverage the largest workforce in the state to create substantial impact in local communities. Throughout the past 25 years, State of Michigan employees have demonstrated their commitment to continuously improve the communities in which they live, work, volunteer and raise their families.

2013 Highlights• $878,000 raised through payroll deduction and

department events

• 4,464 donors

• 322 first-time donors

• $196.68 average donation

• 1,204 participating charities

• 282 volunteers

Michigan 2-1-1

2013-14 Accomplishments

• MAUW/Michigan 2-1-1 funding to support 2-1-1 service delivery

• $460,000 - Veterans Transit Community Living Grant

• $400,000 - State Allocation through DHS

• $8,000 - DCH

• $200,000 - Consumers Energy Fnd: Community Support

• $50,000 - Consumers Energy Fnd: MEIC Tax Prep

• $10,000 - MSU/Red Wing Alumni Hockey Game

• $1,128,000 - Total Funding

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2013-14 Accomplishments

• Veterans Transit and Community Living Initiative (VTCLI)

• Consolidated eight regional databases into statewide database, reducing duplication from 65,000 to 29,500 unduplicated programs and services at 7,900 agencies.

• Integrated all centers onto a single contact management platform allowing shared handling of calls. Projected to save a minimum of $35,000 per year under UWW master contract.

• Launched www.mi211.org web site.• $62,500 in supplemental funding from MDOT for transportation

barriers study

• Partnership with Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency• 2-1-1 is providing contact management platform and is

contracted to provided after hours service• Joint training and coordinated service delivery

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2013-14 Accomplishments

• DHS• Identified as essential partner for winter energy response• MAUW/2-1-1 are at the table with Director Corrigan and key

DHS leadership for transportation planning• Joint development of 2015-16 proposed budget underway

• DCH• $8,000 in funding to update emergency response

information

• Consumers Energy Foundation• $200,000 matching grant to assist with community support

for 2-1-1 services• $100,000 grant shared 50/50 with Michigan Economic

Impact Coalition to support free tax prep activities

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What’s next with funding and partnerships?• Department of Human Services

• SNAP Outreach Reimbursement proposal would reimburse 2-1-1s for food assistance work/SNAP enrollment activities.

• Exploring funding for for One-Call/One-Click pilot project • Developing comprehensive state budget for 2-1-1

• MDOT• Seek funding to implement and sustainably operate statewide One-Call/One-

Click transportation planning service

• Consumers Energy Foundation/Other utilities• Based on success of 2014 tax partnership with MEIC, developing proposal for

expanded 2015 project.

• United Way Worldwide • Michigan selected as only new partner for 2015 MyFreeTaxes expansion to

provide phone-based tax prep assistance through Wal-Mart grant.

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What’s next for 2-1-1 development• Michigan 2-1-1 Service Delivery

• Leverage new database and contact management system for greater efficiency, identify additional opportunities to share resources and reduce costs.

• Focus on common standards and expectations for quality of service and overall operations.

• Develop capacity to proactively push information out to people who need it: callers, community partners, policy makers.

• Reporting and Data Analysis• Secure funding to develop shared data analysis and

reporting capacity.

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Public Policy & Partnerships

Office of Great Start Forums

• Coordinate 10 Regional Forums statewide in partnership with the Office of Great Start

• Make local United Ways the host convener

• Convene over 500 local Early Childhood stakeholders

• Connect local stakeholders with the Office of Great Start to provide input on how best to implement the Great Start plan

ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed

• Support bringing the ALICE project to Michigan

• Work with ALICE Steering Committee to engage 25 United Ways in a Michigan ALICE report and project launch

• Statewide Marketing and Training workgroup support

Friday Forums

• Provide partnership & learning opportunity to United Ways each month

Social Mission

Financial Stability Learning Circle• Convene roughly 15

United Way Community Impact Leaders Quarterly

• Support sharing of best practices and challenges

• Provide a United Way table for helping launch and guide statewide impact initiatives such as MBA, ALICE and AmeriCorps Financial Empowerment

Public Policy Wins this Year

• Secured $400K Funding for 2-1-1• Brought United Way’s voice to

statewide advocacy efforts adding $65M funding to Early Childhood; gearing up for 0-3 next year

• Joined with Advocacy Coalition to move Medicaid expansion through the House

• Led integration of 2-1-1 and MBA into some state department operations

• Increased Coverage of Child Care Hours

MASPMichigan Afterschool Partnership

Education Initiative: Leveraging the Power of After-School• After-School / Out-of-school time/ Expanded Learning

• before, afterschool and weekend programs; • summer learning opportunities; • service learning; • mentoring and internships.

• Formal and structured opportunities for school-aged youth that complement the regular school day; provided by schools, community and faith-based groups, youth-serving organizations, cultural institutions, and city/state agencies.

• Engage youth and provide learning, enrichment, and leadership opportunities designed to support student academic success and overall development.

Michigan After-School Partnership• C.S. Mott Foundation

• National Network – 47 states

• Multi dimensional stakeholders

• Creating strategic partnerships to support local efforts to increase access to high quality expanded learning opportunities

• Sustainable funding streams

• Ensure high quality and collect data

Food/Nutrition Outreach

• VISTA

• Partnering with Michigan Hunger Solutions and Michigan Department of Education

• Increase access to summer food programs

• Increase participation in afterschool snack and supper programs

STEM/STEAM and Badges

• Science, Technology, Engineering and Math• Inclusion of the Arts• Noyce Foundation Project Lift Off grant– building

capacity of out of school time programs in Michigan to offer high quality activities in STEM

• Partner with Michigan Department of Education, Mozilla Foundation and MacArthur to build open digital badges system to help students demonstrate and showcase learning achieved in out of school time programs

MBAMichigan Benefits Access

Training Impact

• CY 2013 • 167 trainings held• 2,420 participants• 826 – agencies represented

• Training Outputs (January – May, 2014)• 96 - trainings held• 1,531 – participants• 477 – agencies represented• 56% of all applications are submitted via MI Bridges (46%

- July, 2013)

Community Partner Process Update• Total Community Partners as of May 2, 2014 –

441

• Access Partners• 85 Access Partners to date

• Navigation Partners• 356 Navigation Partners to date • 1,799 Navigation Partner User ID applications

MBA Mini-Grants• Used to increase the infrastructure and capacity of

Navigation Partners and focus on Point of Integration

• Dedicated MBA Integration Coaching and Benefits Access Services Support provided to mini-grant recipients

• 4 rounds of RFP - received 106 proposals • Awarded 72 mini grants around the state – 3 local

United Ways funded• $458,922.15 distributed to grantees; Grant size

between $1,200 - $10,000

MIBENEFITSACCESS.ORG• MBA Outreach Website Activity (January – May

2014)

• 10,788 - new visits to the MBA website

• 5,267 - linked to MI Bridges from website

• 381 - linked to DHS You Tube videos from website

AmeriCorpsCommunity Resource Navigator Program

Program Year 2012-13

• 24 AmeriCorps Members successfully completed service

• AmeriCorps Members:• Educated 1,633

Organizations regarding MBA and MI Bridges

• Recruited 1,240 people to attend MI Bridges Training

• Assisted with 24,397 211 calls

• Participated in 183 Civic Engagement Activities

Program Year 2013-14 (current)

• Began in October 2013 (will end in February 2015)

• So far AmeriCorps Members have:

• Educated 535 Community Based Organizations about MBA and MI Bridges

• Recruited 426 people to attend MI Bridges Training

• Assisted with13, 645 calls at 211

• Participated in 37 Civic Engagement Activities

AmeriCorps 2014-15

• Introducing…The Financial Empowerment Coaching Corps!

• Beginning in Fall of 2014

• 19 Members will assist individuals and families with financial services in order to increase their self-sufficiency.

• More information to come from Laura Kilfoyle.

Community Services

Liaisons

• Integrated five new community services liaisons across the state

• Jana Rout; United Way of the Lakeshore• Brian Negovan; United Way for Southeastern

Michigan• Dan Lane; United Way of St. Claire County• Dave Palowski; United Way of the Battle Creek and

Kalamazoo Region• Stevie Blanchard: Metro-Detroit CLC

Community Services School

• Hosted 5 day conference at the UAW Family Education Center for 100 union members from around Michigan

• Hosted a half-day poverty simulator for students• Donated food to the Onaway Food Pantry • Raised over $2,500 to support scholarships for the

Community Services School program• Offered classes on the United Way Impact Areas for

students featuring local UW CEOs and their labor liaisons

Trainings & Education

• 17 regional UCAN Community Services training classes

• One week Labor Liaison education training• Featured sessions on grant writing and the ALICE:

Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed Project

• Week long Community Services School

• One day Fall Seminar training• Featured panel on United Way Impact areas

Leadership

• Awarded Kitty Lipsky (Lansing, MI) the Walt Campbell Community Services Award

• United Way Worldwide Vice President of Community Services, Ana Avendano, to keynote upcoming Fall Seminar

• New leadership at the International UAW including outgoing President Bob King replaced by Dennis Williams and Ron Bieber replacing Miguel Foster as Director of Community Services

Member Services

New Website Launch – May 2014

Conferences & Events

• Hosted two Small Cities conferences for local United Ways

• Hosted successful Legislative day for Michigan 2-1-1 and MAUW

Publications

• Launched new advocacy website Engage

• Facilitated second wave of United We Read outreach and press materials

• Launched new and improved Member Center through website