In this week’s episode, our Season 02 sponsors, United Way of Erie join us for a laid back and courageous conversation!
United Way of Erie County is a local social impact organization on a mission to crush poverty in our community. Who envisions a collaborative community where all students succeed and all families thrive. That's LIVING UNITED. https://www.unitedwayerie.org/
With this month’s celebration of Womxn’s History, we talk with four dynamic womxn about their role in the organization, the connection between poverty and literacy, the pros and cons of community schools, and the understanding of what the United Way of Erie County does in the community.
0:43 - 2:10 (Guest Introduction) - Each guest introducing themselves starting with Joelyn Bush (Director of Marketing and Communications), Laurie Root (Senior Vice President), Katrina Byrd (Community School Director), and Kaitlyn Falk (Community School Coordinator).
In this episode you’ll learn more about:
-United Way of Erie’s revamp of their mission to end the cycle of poverty by leveraging the community impact framework
-Shared Stories of experiences of working in the community schools
-The impact and challenges from all four perspectives
-How the community as a whole can get involved with the organization and advocate for the expansion of United Way of Erie's mission
We had a such a great time talking with our new friends at United Way of Erie and there was so much that we unpacked in our hour conversation that we wanted to do a deeper dive.
64:17 (Hosts Reflections) - Listen in on our reflections of the systemic issues that we spoke about in this episode with our guests!
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We'll be back next week!
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Continue the conversation at https://msha.ke/ourerieseries
This podcast is produced by John C. Lyons, Marty Nwachukwu, DaVona Pacley and Lydia Laythe.
Funding provided by United Way of Erie and Ember+Forge.
Music by LiteShado.
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We appreciate you for listening to the Our Erie podcast.
Peace.
