While United Way has always raised money for good causes, our focus has sharpened to impact communities by advancing the common good in education, income, and health.  Our goal is to fund programs that help us advance the common good in our impact areas and further our mission in affecting systemic change in our community.  We want to ensure that the programs we fund will provide measurable outcomes in our impact area that will demonstrate to United Way donors, our shared commitment to fostering positive changes in our community.  When filling out the application for funding, we ask applicants to keep in mind our core impact areas and how their programs best address issues under one of the three impact areas.