Our Work

We recognize that Mineral County offers most of the services residents may require to survive, but we also recognize that the manner of delivery remains to certain degrees fragmented. To advance the common good by addressing societal issues, we need to re-think how we interact with and influence the social service sector of the  region. For years, we have encouraged isolated approaches to community problems through funding practices, instead of encouraging collaboration among those of us working to solve those problems. In order to advance the common good, we must find common goals the community can work towards. This approach has the greatest likelihood of maximizing the value of the donor's dollar. The key to this is committed leadership and committed partnership within each of our investment areas.

To achieve this would take a level of cooperation among a variety of organizations in the community. There could be no more important function of this United Way than to work diligently to make this model work for Mineral County.

Three key areas of social investment have been identified. These initiatives involve both proactive and reactive investment, but our goal remains the same: move forward in all three of these areas - Education, Health and Income.