United Way of Clark, Champaign and Madison Counties

Annual Meeting Awards

The 2006 Annual Meeting began with dinner at the Springfield Marriot on April 19th at 7:00p.m. and was followed by the Financial Report to the community from our auditors. There was then a presentation by our President Ron Melchi and Executive Director Doug Lineberger. It was a night of honoring and recognizing our hard working volunteers and organizations that out did themselves in a challenging year.

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Below is a list of all the awards presented at our 2006 Annual Meeting.

PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Selena Singletary

Selena Singletary, formerly the Director of Human Relations Service Department with the City of Springfield, has been a devoted United Way volunteer. She has served for 20 consecutive years providing guidance and leadership to United Way’s Community Planning Council, Admissions and Allocations Committee, Impact Groups and more recently the Board of Trustees. For the past two years, Selena has chaired the multi-county Impact Development Committee which oversees the fund distribution process and associated policy development. It is especially for her earnest work during the past two years that she is recognized.

Jim Leathley

Jim Leathley, currently the Vice President of Business Loans for Security National Bank New Carlisle Branch, has been a leader of the Clark County Campaign Cabinet since 1998. He has diligently worked on the Western Clark County Division, using his outstanding leadership skills to bring the community together in support of the United Way.

Eric Young

Eric became a member of the board of directors for United Way of Madison County in 2002. Eric was elected Vice President of the Madison County Board and worked closely with the board President and other board members to stabilize United Way of Madison County. Eric was an integral part in moving United Way of Madison County to compliance with all United Way of America requirements, which prepared the organization to engage in merger discussions.
He was one of the leading supporters of the eventual merger of United Way of Madison County with United Way of Clark and Champaign Counties.

MORREY SHIFMAN SPIRIT OF UNITED WAY AWARD

Neenah Paper

Neenah Paper, Inc. formally known as Fox River Paper Co., Urbana, exhibits a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for The United Way throughout the campaign season. This company shows their strong support of United Way from the top down.

The campaign team is responsible for coordinating the campaign events and activities through three work shifts. Despite the challenges of running a campaign throughout three shifts, the campaign team encourages and gets United Way support with broad employee participation. During their campaign kick-off, they distribute their pledge cards and have raffle drawings for various items donated by staff and their vendors. They provide plenty of incentives to ensure employee participation.

Security National Bank

Security National Bank supports United Way in many ways throughout the year. They support our Pacesetter initiative by running an early campaign each year which helps set the bar for the rest of the campaign. They co-sponsor our “United Way’s Night at the Movies” in March. This is an event where United Way thanks our Leadership donors in a way that involves the whole family by inviting them to a night at the movies at no cost to them. Security National Bank encourages their employees to volunteer for United Way and many other non-profit organizations as well.

This year Security National Bank ran their Pacesetter campaign August 2 – August 14. The campaign began with a breakfast at the main office for all employees, where the two chairs, Michelle Buck and Marsha Lyons, had skits prepared to get everyone excited about giving to United Way. The other branches were given budgets to do the same. Prizes were given throughout their campaign for a variety of things, such as; first time donors, “early birds” and donors who raised their gift 10% were entered into separate drawings.

EXEMPLARY COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

Speedway SuperAmerica – Hope Corner

The Hope Corner project was planned and developed by an SSA management team. 40 SSA vendors including local businesses and community foundations provided funding, in-kind materials and personnel. Donated items included mulch, paint, playground equipment, bricks, sod, trees, shrubs, food and fencing. The City of Springfield supported this community initiative an assisted with a variance for the fencing that surrounds and protects the playground.

SSA associates championed the project, were highly involved and contributed greatly to the success of this project. Over 140 SSA associates worked in shifts during a period of six days, rain or shine, in mid August to make this dream a reality. They were further engaged through a “Name the Playground Contest”. The playground was christened “Hope Corner in late August; a very appropriate title for a very special place.
The value of donated items, support funding from partners and SSA associates time donated is $200,000.

HALL OF FAME

Bill Fralick

During the past 30 years Bill has been involved in just about every aspect of United Way except being paid staff. Bill was a member of the Admissions and Allocations Committee for 15 years, served as Chair and member on the Harrison leadership division for no less than six years and eight years on the United Way Board of Trustees. He assumed top leadership positions within the past four years as Board President (2 year term) and Chairman of the Clark County Annual Campaign.

It was during his two year term as Board President that United Way of Clark and Champaign Counties and the United Way of Madison Counties merged. It was a busy two years. Bill is currently serving on the Board of Trustees Executive Committee as Immediate Past President. As you can assume from his leadership activities, Bill believes strongly in supporting our Community through the United Way. When asked to step up into a leadership role, Bill has never said no to the United Way.