Impact Councils Mission
Impact Councils are responsible for identifying critical needs and issues facing northwest Louisiana individuals today, and forming powerful partnerships to direct community resources to targeted initiatives that will impact lives. Impact Councils should collaborate to create plans that include activities and measurable outcomes to attain a long-term community objective. Each Impact Council's work will address one of four identified issues; healthy communities, families and children, learning and earning, and basic needs/unforeseen hardships. To accomplish this work, Impact Council team members will work together with issue and agency experts to develop plans that include short-range, mid-term and long-range measurable targets.
What Impact Councils Do
· Develop goals and strategies for each impact area.
· Determine impact targets and an appropriate community response to address each impact target.
· Raise and leverage additional resources to address the identified outcomes.
· Review and evaluate outcome performance and applications submitted by nonprofit organizations and implement a process for the allocation of United Way of Northwest Louisiana's undesignated dollars assigned to the impact council.
· Determine how to best divide the funds to have the greatest impact in northwest Louisiana.
· Visit agencies to see programs first hand and identify progress as well as limitations.
· Measure progress towards each impact target.
· Evaluate the community response and make adjustments as needed.
