Mission

Our mission is to provide for the charitable wishes of donors who desire to establish long-term support for families and individuals through the United Way and foundation-affiliated agencies.

Objectives

  • Assist individuals in achieving their personal charitable goals in the most advantageous manner.
  • Encourage gifts and bequests to the foundation for charitable purposes.
  • Provide a long-term source of additional revenues to supplement capital campaign and annual campaign funds for United Way certified agencies delivering essential human services.
  • Provide a source of emergency funding for community needs.
  • Administer lifetime and testamentary endowments, trusts and supporting foundations that promote the community's health and well-being.
  • Receive, administer and allocate funds and property to support the special needs of the United Way, certified agencies and foundation-affiliated agencies and institutions.

Trustees: 2008


  • Ken Scott
    Chair
    Norfolk Airport Authority, (Ret.)
  • Eric L. Fox
    Vice-Chair
    UBS Financial Services
  • Stanley L. Samuels
    Chair Professional Advisory Committee
    Stanley L. Samuels, LLC
  • Alvin Wall, CPA
    Treasurer and Chair, Investment Committee
    Wall, Einhorn & Chernitzer, OC
  • Carol McCormack
    Executive Director & Corporate Secretary
    United Way of South Hampton Roads
  • Carolyn Abron McCadden
    Cox Communications, (Ret.)
  • G. Robert Aston
    Townebank
  • R. Bruce Bradley
    Landmark Communications, (Ret.)
  • Stephanie Adler Calliott
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
  • Susan Colpitts, CPA
    Signature
  • Shari Dozoretz Friedman
    Heritage Business Strategies
  • Sharon S. Goodwyn
    Hunton & Williams, LLP
  • Edith G. Grandy
    SunTrust, (Ret.)
  • Edwin Green
    Bowman, Green, Hampton and Kelly, PLLC
  • Mark T. Jones
    Q.E.D. Systems
  • Richard D. Knox, CPA
  • Thomas A. Lukic
    Sandpiper Capital
  • Lamont D. Maddox, Esq.
    The Guidance Law Firm
  • Anita Owings Poston
    Vandeventer Black, LLP
  • John P. Rathbone
    Norfolk Southern Corporation
  • Joe Thomas
    GEICO
  • Priscilla Trinder Roady
    Prudential Towne Realty
  • Mark B. Warlick, SIOR
    S.L. Nusbaum Realty Company
  • Lewis W. Webb, III, Esq.
    Kaufman & Canoles, PC
  • Nancy G. Wren
    Community Volunteer

Past Chairs:

  • Anita Owings Poston
  • Eric L. Fox
  • Mark B. Warlick, SIOR
  • Frederick V. Martin, CFA
  • The Honorable Jody M. Wagner
  • James L. Miller, Esq.