EDITORIAL: United Way of Delaware County will focus on changing community conditions

The Star Press

The United Way of Delaware County is taking a bold and brave step this year by narrowing its focus internally and demanding results from its agency partners. It will no longer be your parents' United Way. It's going to be better.

But, it will be controversial, and it will be emotional for those agencies that will have to go elsewhere for funding they've grown so accustomed to getting from the United Way. This United Way has served Muncie and Delaware County since 1925. Until now, it has used a 20th-century model even as we've moved into a 21st-century world. That changes going forward.