Mandel’s Robert Fischer comments on United Way of America’s change of funding model

United Way’s CEO brings the agency’s new economic mobility mission into focus
Crain’s Cleveland BusinessRobert Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed United Way of America’s pivot from using a national model for funding—including shifting from guaranteeing permanent funding status for groups—to a two-year request-for-proposal cycle.