United Way of Kershaw County

“The form 990 will be reviewed by the executive director”

“Along with an annual review of the policy requirements, board members are instructed to notify the executive director if any new conflicts of interest should arise.”

“Once every three years the board compares the executive directors salary to salaries of other comparable united ways.”

“The executive director includes salary increases for staff with the annual budget he submits the governing board for approval.”

“Anyone at any time can review governing documents upon request at our office. We publish a summary version of our audit in the local newpaper. Our financials are also available online at guidestar.com and other clearinghouse sites that share data on non-profit organizations.”

“Eat smart, move more 90,320 0 0 holston center 88,694 0 0 mentoring 72,624 0 0 emergency food and shelte 72,295 0 0 supplies 20,208 5,817 4,593 housing initiative 28,668 0 0 designated allocations 21,590 0 0 second look 18,378 0 0 hprp 8,700 0 0 miscellaneous 5,501 1,583 1,250 insurance 4,668 1,344 1,061 printing & publications 3,839 1,105 872 small equipment 3,763 1,083 855 telephone 3,497 1,007 795 school tools 5,140 0 0 shelter from the storm 4,365 0 0 transportation initiative 3,578 0 0 dues & subscriptions 1,448 417 329 postage & shipping 1,410 405 320 salvation army 936 0 0”

“The students within kershaw county raised over 40,000 among the student bodies of our school district, a great show of support and leadership from the youth of our county. While not achieving the goal we had for campaign, we have achieved an average of 6.5% campaign increase over the past 2 years. The national average is between 2-3% per year for united ways. In 2013, we opened a transitional shelter for men. The home is located on fair street and we have renamed our 7 transitional homes as shelter from the storm. We have continued our leadership in the homelessness arena by continuing two federal grants when many around the state and country are losing these grants: the emergy solutions grant helps keep people in housing or rehouses them quickly. The housing and urbank development grant helps provide 75% of the funding for 5 of our homes. Our overhead rate (administrative and fund raising) from the 2012 audit was 11.29%. We maintained 100% occupancy rate for holsten center and refinanced the center for another 7 years. We secured an extended 10 year lease with the county for department of social services and health and human services. Renovations totaling over 100,000 will be completed in 2014 to maintain and upgrade the facility. We added 3 new partner agencies for 2014: goodwill, habitat for humanity and first steps. The implementation of charity tracker and 211 in 2012 is continuing to grow in scope and usage throughout the county. We made some progress with coordinating christmas giving to the needy. Our united way played a lead role in coordinating the services of salvation army (columbia), toys for tots, jaycees, dss and other to help reduce duplication. As an agency our united way has determined that we are the leader in providing for the homeless needs of our community. As such marie serves on the midlands area consortium for the homeless board of directors and leads our community efforts during national hunger and homelessness awareness week in november and she is chairing the annual homeless count for kershaw county. Donny serves on the south carolina coalition for the homeless board of directors as treasurer. Our web site, while more updated than in years past still needs to have more current and changing information. Staff and board members have done a great job of bringing us up to speed on our facebook and twitter communications. We are 5 years into our 10 year plan and we convened a group of over 50 community leaders to envision how we can achieve these goals over the next 5 years. In 2014 a plan will be formalized encompassing the vision of these leaders into a 5 year plan. At the close of 2013 we secured 10 new board members and a strong leadership team for 2014. The board will complete a self-evaluation in 2014.”