New technology is crucial to the communications process.
Today, almost everyone is online, surfing the net and traveling through cyberspace. This year, United Way of America introduced a wide variety of new services geared toward increasing the ease of both receiving and disseminating information to both our member United Ways and the general public. The Board of Governors passed resolutions affirming the need for UWA's leadership in pledge and information processing and the formation of a volunteer Blue Ribbon Committee to determine the long term role of UWA and the United Way system in pledge processing. The corporate community is increasingly demanding easier, more cost-efficient ways to process workplace campaigns. The Board sees these resolutions as the first steps in ensuring that United Way continues to be the premier workplace fund raiser because of our ability to change to better meet our customers' needs through the use of new technology.