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


  • Anita Owings Poston, Esq.
    Chair
    Vandeventer Black, LLP
  • Montgomery Knight, Jr., Esq.
    Vice-Chair and Chair Professional Advisory Committee
    Williams Mullen
  • William C. Eisenbeiss
    Treasurer and Chair, Investment Committee
    Landmark Military Newspapers of Virginia (ret.)
  • Michael Hughes
    Executive Director & Corporate Secretary
    UWSHR Foundation
  • G. Robert Aston
    TowneBank
  • David L. Bernd
    Sentara Healthcare
  • Stephanie Adler Calliott
    UBS Financial Services
  • Shari Dozoretz Friedman
    Heritage Business Strategies
  • Edwin Green
    Bowman, Green, Hampton, & Kelly
  • Doyle Hull
    Bank of America (ret.)
  • Carolyn Abron-McCadden
    Cox Communications (ret.)
  • John Rathbone
    Norfolk Southern Corporation
  • Ken Scott
    Norfolk Airport Authority
  • Priscilla Trinder-Roady
    Prudential Towne Realty
  • Mason M. Andrews Underwood, AIA
  • Alvin Wall, CPA
    Wall, Einhorn and Chernitzer, PC
  • Mark B. Warlick, SIOR
    S.L. Nusbaum Realty
  • Jane Claytor Webster
    Willcox and Savage, PC (ret.)
  • Lewis W. Webb, III, Esq.
    Kaufman and Canoles, PC
  • Nancy G. Wren
    Portsmouth Community Trust (ret.)

Past Chairs:

  • Eric L. Fox, Ex-Officio
  • Mark B. Warlick, SIOR
  • Frederick V. Martin, CFA
  • The Honorable Jody M. Wagner
  • James L. Miller, Esq.