Who We Are
United Way of Peterborough & District seeks to enhance community life and build stronger,
healthier communities by connecting community needs to community resources. Through an effective annual fundraising campaign,
the United Way of Peterborough maximizes available financial resources to enable our member
agencies to improve our community's quality of life. Through the use of volunteer fund review
teams and responsible stewardship, United Way of Peterborough & District allocates funds to meet current and changing human
care needs within the community. Currently, funds raised throughout Peterborough City and County directly supports 33 member agencies and 91 programs and services.
Mandate and Mission
The United Way of Peterborough & District is an incorporated, registered Canadian Charitable organization.
Established in 1941, United Way of Peterborough & District has supported local community organizations
for over 66 years.
Our mission is to "improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action".
At United Way of Peterborough & District, our vision is to build community, change lives and work together to
make a difference. This vision is not just a tagline but a mandate within which we operate --
it is a demonstration of our commitment to helping those in need within our community.
To do this, we aspire to:
- Energize and inspire people to make a difference;
- Provide meaningful opportunities for individuals to realize their potential by demonstrating
volunteer leadership in service to community;
- Reflect the diversity of the communities we serve;
- Craft human care agendas within and across our communities;
- Build coalitions around these agendas;
- Increase investments in these agendas by expanding and diversifying our own resource development
and fundraising efforts and supporting those of others; and,
- Ensure that these investments have recognizable impact.
United Way of Peterborough & District wins top national honours.
At the 2009 United Way of Canada Conference, the United Way of Peterborough & District was awarded the Chairs Award for Collaboration for our work on Program Outcomes. This is the second time that we have won this award since it was created in 2003, the first being for our Leadership Development Program. In presenting the award, National Board Chair Doug Barrington reported:
Working as the lead United Way Peterborough has partnered with the United Way for City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland United Way and the United Way of Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge to bring Outcome Measurement to Central East Ontario. The successful United Way of America Outcome model was taken and re-worked to reflect a Canadian context and new insight regarding evaluation – the result, a fully modernized, customized and consultative approach to Outcome Measurement.
To date in the Central East Ontario the four United Ways have achieved the following results:
- 500 Board members trained in Outcome Measurement
- 19 volunteers and 6 staff trained as outcome facilitators
- 40 agencies trained in Outcome Measurement through 133 workshops – representing 400 hours of training and 330 participants.
- 53 fund distribution volunteers trained in Outcome Measurement
These are the results for only 2 years of the project – there are another three to go and once complete close to 100 agencies will have received Outcome Measurement training.
This program has been so successful that the United Way of Peterborough & District has trained or been ask to train the United Way of Quinte, Brandon, Brant, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and Moncton. In 2008, the United Way of Peterborough & District facilitated a train the trainer session for United Ways at the National Conference and has been asked to return for the 2009 conference. Other Government bodies such as the City of Peterborough, Housing Authorities and Health Units have taken part or expressed an interest in this project.
