BUCKS UNITEDANNUAL REPORT united wAy Of bucks county& MAGAZINE Multiplier AwARDS pageS 12-15 BUCKS KNOCKS OUT HUNGER pageS 32-35 CAMPAIGN fOR THE GREATER GOOD pageS 46-49 Local Perspectives on Education, Income & Health, 14 Reasons to Explore PLUS Bucks County, A Local Recipe for Every Season, By the Numbers, and more! United Way of Bucks County Comcast congratulates United Way of Bucks County awards recipients, past and present, including: Brian Jeter Dr. Stanton Kelton Service Award Nan Mauro Paul Sauerbry Award tABLe oF contents 20 36 46 what's cooking? Leading the way Achieving corporate try a recipe for each season from some A local couple's legacy of caring for Philanthropic goals of our favorite local farms. Bucks county. the simple way to bring your team together for the greater good. AnnuAl RepoRt Businesses giving BAck 41 INCOME: Early Investing: 3 Letter from CEO Jamie Haddon 27 GE: Where Giving Back Matters Simple Ways to Teach Our Children about Saving & Investing 5 Letter from CFO John Ramirez 28 Comcast: A Long History of Living United 43 HEALTH: Kicking Off Community 6 Board of Directors & Introduction Health Collaboration of New Board Members 29 National Penn Bank: Sharing Time & Treasure in Local Communities 44 Shaping the Futures of Girls in 7 An Agency with Impact Bucks County Through 8 Kelton Award Winner: Brian Jeter 31 Hill Wallack LLP: Regional Mind, Body & Spirit Strength, Local Impact 10 Sauerbry Award Winner: 46 UW Bucks Campaigns Help You Nan Mauro locAl peRspectives Achieve Corporate Philanthropic Goals 60 Thank You to Our Partner Companies 16 14 Reasons to Visit Bucks County 48 ECC: Easy as 1-2-3… 62 Connect with UW Bucks Staff 19 Growing a Strong Community: 50 The Power of Peace in Our Schools, Homes & Community 63 United Way of Bucks County Farms, Food, and Wine in Bucks Statement of Operations County 51 Top Five Things To Do in the First Five Years of Life 66 Making An Impact In Bucks County 20 Buy Local, Eat Fresh: A Recipe for Every Season 53 Understanding and Advocating for 70 United Way of Bucks County the Aging Network Funded Programs 22 Out & About: Our Great Outdoors 23 21st Century Skills for 21st 55 Bucks County One of the Top 100 AwArds And recognition Century Students Most Charitable Counties Nationwide 12 2014 Multiplier Awards 24 The Pressure on Today's Youth 56 MLK Day of Service Essay Contest 57 MLK Essay Contest Winners 32 Putting Hunger on the Mat 58 Free Counseling Now Available to Bucks County Nonprofits 71 Spirit of Bucks Organizations 36 Carol & Patrick Counihan: 59 United Way of Bucks County 72 Community Award Winners A Legacy of Caring for Bucks County By the Numbers 72 2014 Pep Rally & Magazine 38 How to Get Involved with UW Bucks 64 We Are Bucks County and We Sponsors 40 EDUCATION: Lifelong Learning: Live United Expanding Minds and Opportunities 68 Thank You to Our Leadership Donors Cover image courtesy of Deborah Rosica Photography. 1 From JAmie HAddon, President & CEO, united Way oF Bucks countY Thank you, Bucks We have an interactive website with agency pages; a County! It has been an Positively Bucks County blog connected to content sharing amazing year and we partners like Phillyburbs.com; we are connected to more deeply appreciate the stakeholders than ever before via Twitter, Facebook, and donors, advocates, and YouTube; we have a mobile Connections App that lists all volunteers who made health and human services organizations in Bucks County it possible. We are and can be updated in real time. proud to be your United We know that UW Bucks is making ripples with its Way. We are proud to technology initiatives because United Way Worldwide Jamie Haddon, President & CEO, be growing and getting United Way of Bucks County. recently invited us to join the United Way of Twin Cities, stronger. As we do, we Portland, Detroit and New York City on their Social Media are in a better position to multiply and amplify your efforts. Strategic Planning Initiative. We are now in a position to We are better able to leverage your support – be it time, influence the online strategy of 1,800 United Ways around talent, or treasure – for maximum impact. The stronger we the world. are, the more we can do. We are so very proud that every dollar raised in Bucks I came to the United Way in 2012, with over 20 years of County still stays in Bucks County. That has translated well experience in the nonprofit sector. My experience prepared to year-round relationship building with the donors and me for many things, but not the overwhelming passion, corporations that support us. commitment, courage, and unity that I have witnessed these past two years. I have been touched by the incredible We have experienced increases in our volunteer Days of generosity that we have seen from our corporate, community, Caring, as well as our signature initiatives like Bucks Knocks and agency partners. Individuals and groups; young and Out Hunger, the Bucks County Women’s Initiative, our annual old; donors, advocates, and volunteers – everyone coming Pep Rally, and our Stuff the Bus back to school supply drive. together to be Bucks County – United. NEXt STEPs Thanks to our friends and supporters – the thousands of people who choose to Live United – the past two years have You are witnessing the beginning of something remarkable. been banner ones. We are distributing 30% more resources This year, we will create deeper year-round relationships. in Bucks County. Two years ago, we were touching 1 in 10 Our Bucks County Women’s Initiative will reach more than lives in Bucks County. Today, we are touching more than 400 girls through mind, body and spirit programs. BKO 1 in 5. Hunger will bring awareness to the issue of food insecurity We are in a period of transition as we shift our focus to in Bucks County and provide a huge amount of food. the larger initiatives that impact our friends and neighbors Programs we fund at partner agencies will continue to most. We are increasing capacities, and we are also asking create better opportunities for those who need a hand up everyone to give just a little more. Last year, we asked you this year. to “be the change”. This year, we are asking you to raise the Behind each of our goals is one big audacious plan: We bar. We are asking you to be more than the change. We are want to create a movement. We believe it feels good to do asking you to be a hero. Help us show everyone that heroes good and that people who start doing the right thing won’t are here in Bucks County. want to stop. We believe that doing the same thing and expecting different results is crazy. That’s why we’re doing SNAPsHOT: YeAr IN REVIEW things differently. Bigger. Bolder. More exciting. The level of growth we have experienced over these past This is when we dig in and do a little more. Now is the time two years doesn’t happen without hard work. It took a to decide how you will help - how you will be a hero in our solid six months of intensive work to complete a strategic community. plan to carry the organization through the next three We’ve got work to do, Bucks County. Let’s LIVE UNITED. years of transformation. We spent a lot of time listening Sincerely, and making lists. We still have many outstanding items on those lists, but we’re off to an excellent start. We continue to improve communication and technology, Jamie Haddon providing more platforms to celebrate and build community. President & CEO, United Way of Bucks County 3 From JoHn Ramirez, ChieF FinAncial officer, united Way oF Bucks countY top-responsibility of the c-suite: the chief Believers Luke: “I can’t believe it.” presented. They may Yoda: “That is why you fail.” be inviting, even gravi- tational. But they may Last year, I used this space to congratulate the accomplish- also cause drift. That ment of a big organizational goal: significant growth in income can be costly. for the first time since 2007. Congratulations were appropri- ate. Yet, at the end, there was a transition to the next year’s All of this can raise goals; there was emphasis added that we must always hold questions about the the end(s) in mind. specific strategies em- ployed. These con- Yet the "C-Suite" (the shorthand we use to collectively de- flicts conspire to add scribe CEOs, CFOs, and other senior executives) has a role stress, tension, and that has to be fulfilled before the goals are even written; pressure. before we begin acting with the ends in mind. Before any- Those in the C-Suite John Ramirez, Chief Financial Officer, United thing else happens, C-Suite must embrace the role of “Chief Way of Bucks County. Believers”. are not impervious to the stress, tension, and pressure. To help, there is rising sci- Our organization is no stranger to goals. There has been a lot ence about goal accomplishment. Writing in several articles of work to refine goals so that they are not only SMART (Spe- contributed to Forbes Magazine, David DiSalvo first offers a cific, Measureable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound), warning: stress often releases a hormone (cortisol) that can but also SMARTER (Evaluated and Revised as needed). There diminish performance. Worse, that may have far more detri- is little argument about the value of goals. They are the steps mental effects over the longer-term.