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United Way reaches largest goal ever to secure local services for 2007 For the 12th year in a row, United Way of Beaufort County on Wednesday reached and surpassed its community campaign goal, which was the largest goal yet at $2.625 million. On Wednesday morning the local United Way’s leaders declared the 2006 campaign “over the top” with $2,631,323 in gifts and pledges. This year’s goal was 5 percent more than last year’s, which was $2.5 million. That goal was passed in early January 2006 with $2,511,732. “What a challenging and ultimately rewarding year this has been!” said United Way Board of Directors Chairman Sara Borton, president and publisher of The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette. “I am always amazed at the special spirit of caring and giving of the people of Beaufort County. They always step up and come through with the contributions needed to keep our local services secure for the coming year. In 2006 they stepped up again.” “This was a challenging year,” said Greg Dyson of Merrill Lynch, the Beaufort area campaign chairman for northern Beaufort County. “We had to make a record goal by finding a large number of new contributors. But we had to get it done. As our county’s rapid growth continues, the needs of those who live and work here are growing just as rapidly, if not more so.” The campaign close marked the 12th consecutive year that Beaufort County’s United Way has surpassed its community campaign goal. During that time, which is also the tenure of the local United Way’s president and CEO, Clarece Walker, United Way contributors have invested more than $24.8 million in Beaufort County from community campaigns alone. Adding grant moneys received because of United Way’s ability to leverage funds, total community investment since 1994 comes to more than $30 million. “Again this year we saw the special caring that makes this community such a unique place,” Walker said Wednesday following ceremonies at the United Way roadside “thermometer” at Jean Ribaut Square in Beaufort. “Our contributors supported our campaign to ensure our local services for 2007, even as they were volunteering and helping with so many charitable efforts here in this special place we call home.” More than 300 United Way volunteers become involved in the campaign each year because of what the dollars will accomplish in their community, Walker said. All money raised by the local United Way stays in Beaufort County, addressing critical human needs and changing lives. “We are celebrating today – because we made our goal, and because we are so pleased to be able to increase our investments in this community, with measurable results, in 2007,” said Hilton Head Campaign Chairman Phil Wright of SunTrust. “Through our partner agencies, services and initiatives, we will reach an even more important goal: Increasing United Way’s positive impact on the quality of life in Beaufort County in the new year.” Steve Palmer of SCE&G, chairman of the Bluffton campaign, said, “On behalf of everyone in our community who will receive help next year, we want to thank all of our volunteers as well as the individuals, businesses, sponsors and everyone who gave so generously to make this campaign a success. “Congratulations, Beaufort County! We could not have been successful without the help of each and every one of you!”
United Way launches 2006 campaign with a record Pacesetter figure
w Sara Borton unveils the amazing number: $812,885 - 31 percent of the $2.625 million goal.
United Way of Beaufort County volunteers on Wednesday, Sept. 6, announced a $2.625 million goal for this year’s community campaign – the highest ever for the local United Way. But the road was made smoother by 94 businesses that ran early campaigns and turned in a record $812,885, to jump-start the campaign with 31 percent of the goal already in at Wednesday’s kickoff. “We always hope for about 20 percent in early campaigns to get us started at the kickoff,” said United Way Board of Directors Chairman Sara Borton. She called this year’s results “incredible” and praised the campaign chairman and their volunteers for their hard work and the Pacesetter businesses for their generosity. The kickoff event at The Bluffton Boys and Girls Club included a visit from the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, which is operated by the newest partner agency for the local United Way – A Community Caring for Children. This agency takes the van to schools and other family gathering places across the county to provide oral health care for children. Borton noted that United Way agencies and services will touch the lives of one in three Beaufort County residents next year, making the success of the community campaign vital to the community. With needs growing as the population increases, United Way Community Investment volunteers who screened applicants recommended, and the board approved, the highest campaign goal ever in Beaufort County. The goal is 5 percent higher than last year’s. The campaign will benefit 29 partner agencies as well as services such as Help Line and the Volunteer Centers. Campaign chairmen Phil Wright (Hilton Head), Steve Palmer (Bluffton) and Greg Dyson (Beaufort area) applauded their volunteers and acknowledged the importance of their effort. “We have a saying at United Way – many needs, one solution,” Wright said. He pointed out that: · Almost half the children in Beaufort County schools qualify for free or reduced-price lunches; · At least a quarter of Beaufort County residents earn too little to afford half the price of an average home; and · Almost half the adults who live or work here function at the two lowest literacy levels.
Every single gift helps, Dyson emphasized. “Everyone’s gift is combined with everyone else’s, and through our partner agencies, every gift works as hard as it can to make life better for everyone in Beaufort County.” “United Way knows how to make every dollar count,” Palmer noted, “with volunteers… providing time, talent and resources, which frees up more dollars for helping people.” The annual campaign runs through early December. In the past 10 years, United Way of Beaufort County has invested more than $29 million in the local community. To contribute, to volunteer or for more information, call 982-3040 in Beaufort or 686-4304 in Bluffton/Hilton Head. Pacesetter companies listed The 94 2006 Pacesetter companies for United Way of Beaufort County include: ACCESS Network, ArrMaz Custom Chemicals, Athena Corporation, Atlantic Community Bank, Bank Meridian, Barnwell Resources, BB&T - Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head; Beach First National Bank, The Beaufort Gazette, Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority, Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Beaufort Mortgage Company, Beaufort Oil Company, Bluffton Self Help, Bluffton Today. Broad Creek Public Service District, Butler Chrysler Dodge Jeep, Butler Marine, CAPA, Carswell Insurance, Cherry, Baekert and Holland; The Children's Center - Bluffton, Hilton Head; Coastal Carolina Medical Center, Coastal States Bank, CODA, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Community Services Associates, Creative Interiors Carpet One, Deep Well, Disney's Hilton Head Resort, EMBARQ. Environments Inc., Faces Boutique and Skin Care Spa, First Federal, First South, Forsythe Jewelers, Friends of Caroline Hospice, Graphics One, Grayco Stores - Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head; Group 3 Architecture, Hand & Tanner Financial Group, Harris Pillow Company, Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, HomeTown Realty, Hope Haven, The Island Packet. Islands Community Bank, J. Banks Design Group Inc., Kinghorn Insurance - Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head; Lowcountry Medical Group, Lowcountry National Bank - Beaufort, Bluffton; Merrill Lynch, Minster Machine Company, Mister Label, Murr’s Printing, National Bank of South Carolina - Bluffton, Hilton Head; Nexsen Pruet LLC, Palmetto State Bank, Parker Hannifin, Piggly Wiggly #101. Publix Supermarkets #473, #623,#700, #845; Quinnco Companies, REA Contracting LLC, RegionsBank, Robinson Grant and Company - Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head; Rollers Total Beverage, Shelco, South Carolina Bank and Trust - Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head; South Carolina Electric & Gas, SunTrust Bank, Target, Thumbs Up, Turner Home Inspection, United Way of Beaufort County, Valpak, Wachovia, Ward Edwards. 2006 volunteer campaign teams include: Bluffton – Steve Palmer, chairman; Richard Sturm, chair-elect and finance; Jack Alderman, Jasper County business; Chris and Lisa Coyle, Pacesetter and major accounts; Eric Deaton, major accounts; Catherine Donaldson, developers and real estate; Doug Falkinburg, public service; Sandy Gillis, Michele Hunter, Lillian Sullivan and Richard Walls, small business; Todd Hoke, construction and design professionals; Judy Johnson, residential; and Parks Moss, legal. Beaufort area – Greg Dyson, chairman; Richard Norris, major accounts; Bruce VanHorn, Pacesetter; Joe Glas, Alexis de Tocqueville Society; Ed Saxon, business and industry; Mike McFee, real estate; Arthur O’Kelley, construction. In the professional division we have Erin Dean, attorneys; Doctor Ed Wise, dentists; Josh Kramber, accountants; Jane Frederick, architects; Jim Holden and Mark Guilloud, veterinarians. Roland Gardner is chairing public service; Judy Evans, small business; and Ronny Tanner, finance. Hilton Head – Phil Wright, chairman; Sharon Saupp, residential; Sally Cardamone and Marsha Ivans, Spanish Wells; Maj. Gen. Howard Davis, The Cypress; Mary Noonan, Port Royal; Missy Santorum, Sea Pines; Victoria Schuterra, Indigo Run; Jennifer Groves and Alison Meeks, business; Elizabeth Lamkin, major accounts; Deborah Edmondson, hospitality; Mark Simpson, Sea Pines; and Lottie Woodward, real estate. THE 2006 CAMPAIGN IS OFF AND RUNNING - THANKS TO ONE AND ALL!
=============================================================================== ARE YOU A DIAMOND DONOR? Have you been giving to United Way for 25 years or more? Tell us how long you've been contributing! Send a note to Marge at United Way of Beaufort County, P.O. Box 202, Beaufort, SC 29901, or mbarber@unitedwaybeaufort.org. ============================================================================
The programs described in the story below are provided by the Child Abuse
Prevention Center (CAPA), which is one of 33 agencies and services that will
receive funds from
Campaign contributions are invested in programs
that will touch the lives of 1 in 3 people who live or work in
Campaign chairmen are Ed Duryea in northern For information or to volunteer, call 982-3040 in Beaufort or 686-4304 in Hilton Head/Bluffton. CAPA helps children by educating parents
Ana Rodriguez at the Bluffton Family Learning Center with Sebastian, 4.
Ana Rodriguez of Bluffton wanted to be a better mother.
Dr.
Gus Perez, a Bluffton physician, wanted help with parenting
his two children after a divorce.
Both
found what they were looking for in classes offered by the
Child Abuse
Prevention Association (CAPA), a “People
sometimes think CAPA is an organization that shelters abused children – and of
course we do,” said Susan Cato, CAPA’s executive director.
“But just as important, as our name suggests, we work to prevent child
abuse and neglect down the road by teaching moms and dads about effective
parenting early on.” Cooperative
parenting
Dr. Gus Perez, a Bluffton family practitioner who’s been divorced about
7 years, took CAPA’s cooperative parenting class to learn how to co-parent.
His ex-wife did not attend the class, although CAPA encourages both
parents to attend.
CAPA’s Donna Eby-Meeks, their instructor, showed them videos of
situations that arise in divorced families.
First they would see the “wrong” way to handle the situation, then
the appropriate way.
“It was amazing that a simple change in behavior or language could make
so much difference,” Perez said. ”We learned that we could make our lives
and our children’s lives easier, with less stress, just by knowing how to act
in a given situation.”
They met for 8 weekly sessions of 2 hours each, and Perez was able to put
what he learned into practice right away. Now,
he said, he can get along with his ex-wife and support her when the kids act
out, and he can deal with potential manipulation by the children without feeling
guilty.
His 13-year-old daughter lives with her mother, while he has his son, 16,
with him. Both children spend time
with the other parent regularly. “It’s
important that we can back each other up, not allowing ourselves to be played
against each other, and that’s one of the things I learned in the class,”
Perez said.
“It was great to discuss issues with other parents in the same
situation, but with many different dynamics – some newly divorced, some
divorced for many years, some with both parents in the class, some like me with
only one.” Basic
parenting in Spanish Ana
Rodriguez and her husband, Javier Zimbron, signed up for a CAPA basic parenting
class conducted in Spanish at the United Way Success by 6 Family Learning Center
in Bluffton, where their 4-year-old son, Sebastian, goes to day care.
They
learned about their roles as parents and about their child’s behavior, but
Rodriguez said the most important thing she learned was “not to make the same
mistakes my parents made with me.” Their
teacher, Nancy Ulloa-Muñoz, said this first basic parenting class in Spanish
was highly successful. “When they
finished the class, you should have heard them – they were amazed at how much
they had learned about being parents.” In
six weekly sessions of 1-1/2 to 2 hours, the class dealt with remembering their
childhood (often discovering they were repeating their parent’s mistakes),
emotions and anger management strategies, discipline, communication and building
self-esteem, finishing by setting goals and creating a plan for their own
family. Whether
in English of Spanish, the goal of the class is the same: “We want them to
enjoy being parents, to love their children and to understand how happy they can
be if they love and guide their children in the right way,” Ulloa-Muñoz said. Eby-Meeks
provided the curriculum for the Hispanic class and Ulloa-Muñoz translated it
into Spanish and added some Spanish-language videos from the “This
type of collaboration – CAPA working with United Way Success by 6 and the
county school district to improve our children’s lives by helping their
parents – is an example of United Way mobilizing resources to meet our
community’s needs,” said Other
parenting programs offered by CAPA include Parenting the Strong-Willed Child,
Parenting the Challenging Child, Single Parenting and Your Child and Dating.
All Other CAPA programs
In addition to the parenting classes and its shelter, CAPA provides
programs for young children ages 4-7 on family values, diversity, empathy,
self-esteem and abuse; a comprehensive bullying program and an anger management
program with units for first grade through high school; and programs that help
children and teens with conflict resolution, peer pressure, coping with stress,
setting goals and communicating.
CAPA’s well-known “Baby Think It Over” program offers older
children a chance to see what it’s like to care for a baby, while companion
programs encourage abstinence and offer guidance to teen parents. Other teen
pregnancy prevention programs highlight sexually transmitted diseases and
parents’ role in prevention. “Wise Guys” is for men only, ages 12-17.
The Teen Outreach Program involves young people in structured, supervised
community volunteer work, along with discussions related to teen issues, life
skills and goals. CAPA’s
faith-based sexuality programs are available to faith-based organizations.
For more information on CAPA programs, call 524-4350.
United Way of Beaufort County campaign passes 50% mark!
United
Way volunteers on Thursday, Oct. 20, reported $1,287,317 in gifts and pledges
for our annual community campaign. This is 51.5
percent of the $2.5 million goal. Congratulations
to this
year’s campaign chairmen for a great job done so far: Ed Duryea in
northern
Sept.
7 kickoff launches $2.5 million campaign
United Way of Beaufort County volunteers on Wednesday,
Sept. 7, announced a $2.5 million goal for this year’s community campaign.
The campaign kickoff at Porsche of Hilton Head
in New
River Auto Mall began with a moment of silence while attendees remembered
the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Board
of Directors Chairman With
needs growing as the population increases, United Way Community Investment
volunteers who screened applicants recommended, and the board approved,
the highest campaign goal ever in Arriving
at the showroom in Porsches driven by representatives of the dealership,
campaign chairs
· Almost
half the children in
· At
least a quarter of
· Almost
half the adults who live or work here function at the two lowest literacy
levels.
Good news for the campaign, Santorum reported, is that gifts and
pledges totaling $533,601, or 21.3 percent of the goal, have already come
in from “Pacesetter” campaigns run by 86 area businesses during the
summer.
Every single gift helps, Duryea emphasized.
“United Way knows how to make every dollar count, with volunteers
like the ones we’re recognizing today providing time, talent and
resources.”
The annual campaign runs through early December.
In the past 10 years,
To contribute, to volunteer or for more information, call 982-3040
in Beaufort or 686-4304 in Bluffton/Hilton Head.
Kids from the Children's Center, a United Way partner agency, entertained the kickoff crowd with a song and dance.
The
2005 Pacesetter companies for
Beaufort Mortgage, Bedor & Associates, Bluffton Self Help,
Brays Island, Butler Chrysler Dodge Jeep, Butler Marine, CAPA, Care Core,
Carolina First, The Children’s Center, Coastal Carolina Medical Center,
CoastalStates Bank, CODA, Creative Interiors Inc., Demosthenes Company,
Disney’s Hilton Head Resort, Environments Inc., First Federal, First
South Bank, Forsythe Jewelers, Friends of Caroline Hospice, Grayco Stores
– Beaufort.
Greenwood Development, Harris Pillow Company,
Minster Machine,
Sam’s Club, Sea Pines Real Estate, Shelco, Sprint, South Carolina
Bank & Trust – Beaufort, South Carolina Bank & Trust –
Bluffton, South Carolina Electric & Gas – Bluffton, South Carolina
Electric & Gas – Pritchardville, Target, Thomas & Hutton, THUMBS
UP Inc., Town of Bluffton, Turner 2005
volunteer campaign teams
include: Bluffton
– United Way agencies, services for 2006 United Way will invest contributors' 2005 gifts in these agencies and services: ACCESS Network Inc. Alzheimer’s Family Services of Greater Beaufort American Red Cross Palmetto Chapter Beaufort/Jasper/Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Beaufort County Teen Pregnancy Prevention Council Beaufort Marine Institute Bluffton Self Help Boy Scouts Coastal Carolina Council Boys and Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) The Children’s Center Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse (CODA) Collaborative Organization of Services for Youth (COSY) Deep Well Project Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Friends of Caroline Hospice Girl Scouts Carolina Lowcountry Council Healthy Families America Beaufort County Help Line HELP Mobile Meals Hilton Head Island Recreation Association Inc. Hope Haven Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry Lowcountry Food Bank Lowcountry Habitat For Humanity LowCountry Legal Aid Meals on Wheels of Bluffton & Hilton Head Operation Holiday Heroes Penn Center Inc. Project Shelter The Salvation Army Second Helpings Senior Services The Sheldon Project Success By 6 THUMBS UP The Volunteer Centers and Disaster Services YMCA of Beaufort County The 33 agencies tapped for investments in 2006 were selected after intense scrutiny by nearly 50 Community Investment volunteers and were approved by the local United Way's Board of Directors. POLO! THE 11th SEMI-ANNUAL OKATIE ROTARY POLO FOR CHARITY
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