By Dave Phillips

Clips and Work Examples

Website (full rebuild launched in January 2025)
- Led rebuild project from RFP process through completion.
- Manage relationship with website vendor.
- Work with cross-functional internal team.
- Wrote and edited content.
- Conduct ongoing maintenance and launch new features regularly. Recent new features include:
  - Youth Opportunity Navigator searchable map
  - ALICE page with animated graphics
- Stats
United Way Voice monthly email newsletter
- Implemented in 2025 to cut down on the amount of emails sent to our subscribers.
- Contains a synopsis of all important United Way news for that month.
- Click here to view the August 2026 edition.
Access For All
- Prior to being promoted to manager of marketing strategy and operations, I wrote blogs and impact stories about United Way programs and people who received assistance.
- My favorite story was about Access For All, a program that connected people with the training they needed to get good skilled-trade jobs. For this story, we followed La’Tasha Smith’s journey, from living out of her car to finding a good job and a place to call home.

A man who pleaded guilty to murdering his father and severely injuring his mother and brother in a baseball bat attack.
A grandmother who was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison on a second degree murder conviction in the shooting death of her grandson.
An oncologist who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for mistreating patients. He was accused of providing treatment that patients did not need or would not benefit from as part of a Medicare scam.
As a longtime racing enthusiast, my favorite story I covered at The Oakland Press was on the Penske Dream Cruise. In the days leading up to the Woodward Dream Cruise, Roger Penske gathered the pace cars from all of his Indianapolis 500 victories as team owner. He brought in drivers from NASCAR and Indy Car to drive them up and down Woodward, complete with a police escort.