Funding Programs That Make A Difference
Local volunteers work to evaluate and determine funding for our local programs. This process ensures that our programs are designed, evaluated and funded by local citizens. It is a dynamic and flexible process that relies on a program demonstrating how it changes peoples’ lives in the community as well as what it needs to accomplish that change.
Using a Results-Based Accountability model, our agencies design their programs according to both the qualitative results they want and also the quantitative needs they have in order to make those results possible. Along the way, they tell us what benchmarks will be met.
Our volunteers and agencies receive ongoing training, technical assistance and support that they need from this United Way. It is more than goal-setting… it is goal achieving.
Cheryl Poryanda, a board member and officer, uses these community volunteers as allocators. This year’s programs were reviewed and funded by:
- Cheryl Poryanda - Chair Webster Bank
- Tom Anastasio - 3 M
- Maureen Bilger - Community Volunteer
- Robert Canavan - Canavan Home Inspection
- Cassandra Crowal - MidState Medical Center
- Rosanne Ford - The Greater Meriden Chamber of Commerce
- Mark Gingras - G & G Beverage
- Kathee Gold - Fosdick
- Arlene Hamelin - MidState Medical Center
- Rachael Hanley Shove - Westfield- Meriden
- Richard Leary - Community Volunteer
- Winifred Leary - Community Volunteer
- Dave Radcliffe - Children First Initiative
- Guy Tommasi - Connecticut VNA
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- Gina Marcantonio-Wotton - VNA of Central Connecticut
- George McGoldrick - George E. McGoldrick AIA
- Adam Mosher - Tuttle Distinctive Sportswear
- Gail Millerick - MidState Medical Center
- Richard Muniz - Educator
- Elaine Murphy - Community Volunteer
- Doug Papallo - 3 M
- Nanette Pastore - H. Pearce
- Rosemary Propper - Community Volunteer
- Kristine Sanderson - 3 M
- James Trainor - City of Meriden
- Craig Turner - Town of Wallingford
- Kathy Wallenius - Educator
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If you want to be considered for our next allocations process, please contact us.
Advocate
As an individual, as a company, as this United Way, we all can advocate for the programs that will mean lasting change that our community needs so all of us can advance. That’s what it means to LIVE UNTED.
In the Meriden-Wallingford area we advocate by:
- Convening community parents, educators, agencies and businesses to develop A Blueprint for Early Learning that charts how we will improve the lives of children in our community from birth to age eight by looking at their education, income stability and health.
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