Community Needs Assessments

CNIC - COMMUNITY NEEDS IDENTIFICATION COMMITEE

United to Identify Needs

Identifying and solving needs isn’t just a part of the mission of UWOR, it is our mission.

The Community Needs Identification Committee (CNIC) plays a significant role in developing and implementing processes for analyzing data and identifying our service area’s most pressing needs. The Committee meets regularly to review information, understand needs and how they may be trending or emerging, and inform data-driven decisioning for funding requests and allocations.

How do we apply CNIC findings?
The most important part of our work is stewarding donor dollars and ensuring that we use those funds to create sustainable solutions to our community’s most pressing needs. Each year’s CNIC Report is used to guide the United Way’s grant making and funds allocations process to ensure we are moving the needle in addressing the Ocoee Region’s most relevant and urgent issues. 

Click to view the most current 2025 Community Needs Assessment (.pdf)

2025 Community Needs Identified
Stable Housing
Access to Quality Childcare
Access to Healthcare
Mental Health and Substance Misuse

*Financial Instability is an underlying need that is interconnected and affects all of our current four focus areas at some level.

Additional Community Needs
Domestic Violence
Transportation
Aging Population Needs
ESL / Language Support Services

For more than a decade, United Way of the Ocoee Region has used data-driven Needs Assessment reports to inform funding decisions - ensuring resources are strategically invested in programs that address our community’s most pressing challenges to create lasting, meaningful change.

Click to review previous Needs Assessments:

2024 Needs Assessment 

2023 Needs Assessment

2022 Needs Assessment

2021 Needs Assessment

2020 Needs Assessment

2016 Needs Assessment

2015 Needs Assessment

For additional information about CNIC, contact Hailey Wood at haileywood@unitedwayocoee.org or 423-479-2020.