UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ANNUAL REPORT 2019- 2020 2019-20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: ELECTED TRUSTEES: Board of Trustees’ Chair Tony G. Waldrop, Ph.D. Donald L. Adams – Business Manager, I.B.E.W. Local 505 President, University of South Alabama Shearie Archer – Executive Director, Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy Brent Barkin - President, Shoe Station Campaign Chair Mahesh Batavia - President, Southeastern Asian Store Owners Guy Helmsing Market President & Senior VP, Hancock Whitney Bank Joe L. Bedwell - Retired, BancorpSouth Raymond L. Bell, Jr. – Shareholder, Maynard Cooper & Gale Finance Chair Karl Ficken – President, Spire Energy-Mobile Walter Brand Todd Greer, Ph.D. – Dean of the School of Business, The University Senior Vice President, ServisFirst Bank of Mobile Audit Chair Nick Harrell - Executive Director & CIDO, Choctaw County Chamber Erin S. Jones CPA, of Commerce Wilkins Miller, LLC J. Guy Helmsing – Senior Vice President & Market President, Secretary / Governance Chair Hancock Whitney Bank Leida Javier-Ferrell, Ph.D. Bo Mattei – President, Thames Batre’ Insurance Director of Business Development & External Affairs William B. Sisson – President & CEO, Mobile Area Chamber of Labor Chair Commerce Rick Lambert Jeff St. Clair – President, Springhill Medical Center Southwest Alabama Labor Council, AFL-CIO Reginald Sykes, Ph.D. – President, Bishop State Community Community Impact Chair College Beth Thomas Michael Toomey - Branch Manager, Thompson Gas External Affairs Manager, Alabama Jean Walker Tucker – Senior University Attorney, University of South Alabama Immediate Past Chair Charles Hyland {Ex Officio} Jill Chenoweth – UWSWA President & CEO Director, Mobile Area Water & Sewer System COMMITTEE MEMBERS: EMERITUS TRUSTEES: Sarah L. Damson Celia Collins Tom Hinds Attorney, Johnstone Adams G. Russell Ladd, III Ronald B. Melton Sydney G. Raine James T. Robson President, Southwest Alabama Partnership for Training & Robert J. Williams Employment This publication recognizes United Way of Southwest Alabama’s leadership donors and workplaces that create effective change in Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, and Washington counties. On behalf of the lives positively impacted, UWSWA extends its deepest thanks to our Leaders in Giving for selflessly investing in our community. DISCLAIMER: Donor information is based on UWSWA’s donor records up to August 1, 2019. We apologize for any omissions or inaccuracies. Please contact UWSWA with any corrections at 2 (251) 433-3624. United Way of Southwest Alabama CHOCTAW COUNTY COMMITTEE Service Area Marshall Abston Linda T. Gaines Choctaw Sonja M. Brown Nick Harrell Tyler Davidson Mayor Billy May Will Finney Sara Retherford Clarke CLARKE COUNTY COMMITTEE Washington Lynn Allday Bo Keahey Betty Barlow Sommer Keith Joe L. Bedwell Judge Hardie Kimbrough Linda Breedlove Terry Phillips Katie Clark Diane Pruitt Mobile Julia Ann Deas Leigha Reid Rev. Jim DuFriend Cynthia Tatum Susan Dunn Mary English Alesia Headley TABLE OF CONTENTS MOBILE COUNTY COMMITTEE A Message From Leadership 4 Shelia Bates Clinton Johnson, Jr. UWSWA Partner Agencies 5 Tracy Coleman Ryan New Alabama Snapshot 6 Rena’ Davis Lisa Owen Building Blocks 7 Edra Finley Matt Singleton Ashley Heyer UWSWA Initiatives 8 Covid-19 Response 10 UWSWA Collaborations 12 WASHINGTON COUNTY Volunteer Award Winners 13 Financial Highlights 14 COMMITTEE 2019 Campaign Cabinet 15 Brenda Bivens Jessica Odom 2019 Campaign Award Winners 15 Ashley Blount Sydney Scoggins Rev. Richmond Chaney Michael Toomey 1926 Society 16 Jamie Crouch Anna Clark Waite Alexis de Tocqueville Society 17 Katrina Dearman Winston Waite, Jr. Leadership Society 18 Cristie Giles Hannah Williamson Lynn Harrell Major Corporate Gifts 24 Corporate Leadership Giving 25 Corporate Sponsorships 26 In-kind Donations 27 3 MESSAGES FROM LEADERSHIP JILL CHENOWETH PRESIDENT & CEO Someone Needs You. Actually, there are several thousand someones in Southwest Alabama who need you. You know them. They work with you. They attend church with you. They live in your neighborhoods. They work in businesses you solicit. Their children attend school with your children. They are your family members. They are you. Chances are you know someone who has received services, is receiving services or will receive services from one of our 47 partner agencies. You also know someone who could not receive services because the programs had reached capacity. Yet, somehow, we always think it is someone we do not know. So many people ask, “Why should I give to United Way?” My first response is, “Someone needs you.” My second response is, “Our partner agencies work in concert with one another daily to provide services to our friends, neighbors, and loved ones.” If one of our partner agencies suffers, it affects the other 46 partner agencies. The agencies rely on each other to provide comprehensive services to those who have needs: quality child care for infants and toddlers; quality afterschool and summer programs for youth and teens; quality care for adult children with disabilities; quality care for children with addictions. Everyone is someone’s child. Our partner agencies rely heavily on each other to fill in the gaps of their programs. Through Giving, Advocating and Volunteering, you can help the someone or someones who need you. Thank you! DR. TONY WALDROP BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ CHAIR "Being involved with UWSWA has shown me what great needs there are in our region. Those requiring help have grown substantially due to the pandemic. I am very impressed by the commitment of volunteers and UWSWA staff who strive to make a real difference. Thank you to all of our contributors to the United Way of Southwest Alabama which help our partner agencies work together to help those in need." 4 2019-20 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA PARTNER AGENCIES AIDS Alabama South, LLC Home of Grace for Women Alpha Women’s Resource Center Housing First, Inc. AltaPointe Health Systems The Learning Tree, Inc. American Red Cross Serving South Alabama Lifelines Counseling Services The Arc of Clarke County McKemie Place The Arc of Southwest Alabama Mobile Arc (known now as AltaPointe Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Alabama Intellectual Disabilities) Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Alabama Mobile Area Education Foundation (Thomasville) Mobile Community Action Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama Mulherin Custodial Home Catholic Social Services of Mobile Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy The Child Advocacy Center Penelope House, Inc. Child Day Care Association Regional Child Advocacy Center (Grove Hill) Community Action Agency of South Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Alabama The Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama Court Appointed Special Advocate Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, (CASA) Mobile Mobile Chapter Crittenton Youth Services South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program Dearborn YMCA Southwest Alabama Retired & Senior Drug Education Council Volunteer Program (RSVP) (Thomasville) Dumas Wesley Community Center St. Mary’s Home Epilepsy Foundation of Alabama, United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile Mobile & Gulf Coast Chapter Via Health, Fitness, & Enrichment Center Family Promise of Coastal Alabama Victory Health Partners Feeding the Gulf Coast Volunteers of America Southeast (VOASE) Franklin Primary Health Center Wilmer Hall Children’s Home Goodwill Easter Seals of the Gulf Coast YMCA of South Alabama Gulf Regional Early Childhood Services 5 ALABAMA SNAPSHOT People of Southwest Alabama 80,900 PEOPLE Population Age % of Population are food insecure in Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Choctaw County 12,841 Choctaw County and Washington Counties. Clarke County 23,920 • Under 18 19.7% Mobile County 413,2019 • 18 - 64 56.7% Food-insecure individuals report, on average, requiring an additonal Washington County 16,326 • Over 65 23.6% $41,954,000 each year to have enough food to meet their food needs in Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, and Washington Counties. (Feeding Clarke County America) Households • Under 18 21.3% Choctaw County 5,350 • 18 - 64 58.2% Clarke County 9,358 • Over 65 20.5% Mobile County 155,831 17.8% of STUDENTS Mobile County are chronically absent from school in Alabama. Washington County 6,007 • Under 18 23.3% • 18 - 64 60.1% 338 schools have high or extreme chronic absence. Median Household Income • Over 65 16.6% Chronic absence can affect a child’s ability to read well by the end of Choctaw County $34,884 Washington County third grade. Poor reading skills can lead to failing courses in middle Clarke County $36,127 • Under 18 22.1% school and to increasing the likelihood of dropping out of high school. Mobile County $46,166 • 18 - 64 58.2% (Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama and Everyone Graduates Washington County $40,794 • Over 65 19.7% Center & Attendance Works) Percentage of People in Poverty Choctaw County 22.6% 11.7% INCREASE IN TEEN SUICIDE Clarke County 18.4% in adolescents 15 - 19 years old in Alabama over Mobile County 17.7% the previous year. Suicide is the second leading Washington County 18.6% cause of death for youth and young adults. Adolescents who are at an increased risk of suicide, have or have Low-Income Families in Alabama experienced psychiatric disorders (major depressive, bipolar, conduct and substance use disorders); family history of depression or suicide; • Alabama Poverty Rate 20.3% loss of a parent to death or divorce; physical and/or sexual abuse; • Families that Work 72% lack of a support network; feelings of social isolation, or victims of • Families Paying ≥ 1/3 of bullying. (United Health Foundation, Alabama Public Health, and Daily Income for Housing 46% Mountain Eagle) • Home Foreclosure Rate 0.91% • Working Families that are Low-Income 33% • Families with No HS 16.8% OF PEOPLE • Degree/GED 29% are living below the federal poverty line in Alabama. • Families with a Parent The federal poverty threshold ranges from $12,784 with no Health Insurance 39% for one person, to $25,701 for a family of four. • Unbanked Households 8.7% • College Graduates with Debt 50% There are 678,045 Alabama households with annual incomes below $35,000. Low income families often do not have the SOURCES: US Census, Alabama Possible, ability to find decent jobs, provide for their families, or save for the Prosperity Now, Annie E.