Annual Meeting

It was a million-and-a-half dollar campaign year for the United Way of Union County. The 2023-2024 campaign total - $1,521,824 – was announced at the United Way’s Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024. The amount increased by 18% over the previous year’s campaign.

President Vange Shoup and Executive Director Tyler Turner recognized the hard work of campaign volunteers. They thanked the community for a successful campaign, noting the incredible loss of Alexis Alexander in July of 2023.

Lance Alexander, Alexis’s father, updated everyone that Alexis’s estate would donate $2,200/month for ten years to United Way of Union County, a total donation of $264,00! In addition to this astonishingly generous gift, the estate will make one-time $5,000 donations to the 13 UWUC Agencies in 2024. Alexis’s impact on Union County (and beyond) will be felt for generations!

Union County is blessed with businesses and individuals connected to United Way's mission. Collaboration is at the heart of our community. Our businesses see it, our non-profits see it, and hopefully, everyone will move towards unifying under the banner of love and service. We are well on our way!

In other business at the Annual Meeting, new board members were elected: Sarah McCurdy, Summit Insurance; Melody Morrow, Southern Bancorp; and Melissa Durr, Roseburg Forest Products.

New officers for 2023 are President Eric Smith, Chemours; Vice President Don Miller, Murphy USA; and Treasurer Jeff White, Cadence Bank.

Originally begun as the El Dorado Community Chest in 1933, the United Way of Union County came into existence in 1962. Their mission is to mobilize the caring power of communities to impact lasting changes - by focusing on the underlying causes of the most serious problems in each community they serve. Since 1950, they have raised almost $40 million to invest in fulfilling their mission in Union County.

For more information call the United Way office at 862-4903.