By Amanda Keister
SUNBURY -- The Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way board will vote Monday on its 2008 roster of member agencies.
Keri Albright, the organization's president and chief executive officer, said a yearlong re-evaluation of member agencies is essentially complete.
The process has resulted in the addition and deletion of nonprofit agencies from the United Way's 35-agency roster, Ms. Albright said.
"As it stands now, there are some new additions to our member agency roster and some organizations that may be cut from that list," she said.
"Some organizations may be cut simply because they're within larger organizations that are really well-funded."
Others may be cut because their operations are not in line with the mission and expectations of the United Way as determined by the organization's newly adopted strategic plan, which charges the United Way with solving community problems at their root cause.
"We're funding organizations that are operating really well, that the donors can trust we're investing their money where we can have the greatest impact and then we're going to begin working on major problems in our community that have been identified as problems by people in the community," Ms. Albright said.
Those community problems are early childhood education, lack of public transportation, poverty and the effect of drug and alcohol abuse on families.
When the board opened the application process to member and nonmember agencies nearly a year ago, 49 agencies applied, Ms. Albright said.
Of those, 47 remain, as two withdrew their applications.
Money raised in the 2007 capital campaign will still support the 35 agencies currently funded through the United Way. The 2008 campaign will fund the new roster, Ms. Albright said.
The re-evaluation process also looked at whether the agencies maintained nonprofit status, underwent an annual financial audit or review, had an advisory group or board that meets at least quarterly, operated under an annual budget, maintained satisfactory financial records and filed a Form 990 with the IRS.
Also, the agency's primary mission or focus cannot be legislative influence, public relations, religious activity or economic development.
