The purpose of the United Way of Tampa Bay’s Blog is as follows:

• To keep United Way partners, donors, community leaders, volunteers, and the general public up to date about the mission and work of United Way.
• To create awareness in the community about programs, intiatives, services, and collaborations that may interest them.
• To inform readers about community issues and opportunities for change, based on factual data. The intent here is to be informative and educational rather than positional.
• To link readers to other web sites that may of help or interest to them. 

We invite submissions to the United Way Blog from our community partners, funded organizations, volunteers, donor groups and community leader, with the understanding that what is submitted is aligned with the Blog’s purpose (above).

Editorial Guidelines

1. Articles should generally not exceed 500 words. Links to other resource can be included if you wish.

2. If quoting someone else’s work, please provide all credits.

3. Please submit articles in a Word File in block paragraphs, each separated by one line of space. No indentations or special characters please.

4. If submitting a brief news item about a program or service, please include a link to the appropriate page on your web site. Also, we will consider linking to PDFs if you provide us with the link to it.

5. Include your name, title, organization, email address, and telephone number. You will be identified as the author of your piece in our Blog.

 Please note that we reserve the right not to publish a submission.

Contact: Doug Arnold, VP at darnold@uwtb.org or at 813-274-0951