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Thank you for LIVING UNITED by attending United Way’s Putnam Forum. If you did not attend, you can still be part of the process: Nearly 40 top experts in education, income and health worked together to make United Way’s first Putnam Forum an unequivocal success. By examining data indicators, contributing factors and root causes, participants helped to create strategies that will meet measurable goals over time. They include: more Putnam residents will make healthy and safe decisions and exercise good judgment in order to improve their health. Strategy: Create incentives for intergenerational groups to become involved in enjoyable regular exercise that will lead to life-long healthy habits; recruit and coordinate a variety of facilities in Putnam for spaces for exercise; create a nutritional education program including intergenerational activities leading toward understanding nutritional foods, how to grow and prepare fresh foods and encourage life-long healthy eating habits. more Putnam residents will make healthy and safe decisions and exercise good judgment with regard to consequences through improved communication and understanding between children and youth and parents and other adults in youth leadership roles. Strategy: Create a Family University or other training format around the same time as the middle and high school orientations. Utilize experience gained in the Mahopac/Carmel School Districts’ “Hope Forum” held January 21, 2010.

United Way will be seeking to create collaborative initiatives with potential partners all working towards a common goal – to move the needle on residents’ ability to make healthy and safe decisions. Results will be measurable.

We thank you for so willingly sharing your expertise and time at the Putnam Forum, and for contributing strategies that can be worked on as a community and that ultimately take us to our shared goals. We invite you to watch Naomi Adler’s presentation explaining next steps, and welcome you to submit a letter of intent (see below) to partner with us on these important initiatives, due March 12, 2010.

All organizations requesting funding for 2010-2011 must complete the following Letter of Intent. For more information about this process and this form, please listen to the web presentation.

This form must be submitted in electronic form as well as via hard copy (with original signatures). Electronic submissions must be sent to letterofintent@uwwp.org.

In addition to the e-mail submission, submit one (1) original hard copy version by 4:00 P.M. Friday, March 12, 2010 to:

Susan Schefflein, Senior Vice President for Community Impact
United Way of Westchester and Putnam
336 Central Park Avenue
White Plains, NY  10606

Email and hard copy must be received by UWWP by Friday, March 12, 2010 at 4 pm. Extensions will be granted for the e-mail version only – hard copy must be in our office by 4pm on March 12, 2010.

Please complete a separate Letter of Intent for each program for which you are requesting funding. If this is a collaborative effort, you may submit one letter on behalf of others; however, all of the organizations who are submitting under one letter must “sign off” on one original letter of intent. The organization that submits the letter for a collaborative will be considered the “lead agency” responsible for communicating any questions or meeting information to all of the members of their collaborative. The next step of this process involves personal meetings with agencies selected. Agencies will be notified by email and asked to meet with United Way staff and volunteers by late April 2010.