By ANGELA WARD
Friday, March 12, 2010
The Greater Longview United Way raised $1.294 million in its 2009-10 campaign — almost 98 percent of the $1.325 million goal, Executive Director Donna Mahurin said Thursday.
"We're pleased that we came so close to meeting our goal," said campaign chairman Richard Lazarus. "In this economy, the fact that we were only 2 percent below what we aimed for says a lot about the generosity of our community."
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Campaign Chairman Richard Lazarus fills in the final update Thursday to the Greater Longview United Way donation thermometer.
The group also met 98 percent of its goal for the 2008-09 campaign, Mahurin said. However, the local group has been doing better than the national average.
"While we didn't raise quite as much as we were aiming for, we'll still be able to do a lot of good with these funds," she said.
Although national figures have not been released, Mahurin said an informal survey showed other United Ways of similar size across the county had an average of a 4 percent decrease in the amount raised for 2009-10 as compared to the 2008-09 campaigns.
The United Way serves as an umbrella fundraising agency for other nonprofit organizations in the community. In May, the United Way will begin allocating money from the campaign to programs run by the various partner agencies, which should receive the money by the end of that month, Mahurin said.
"While we feel fortunate to have raised as much as we did, the sad thing is that demands for the services of our partner agencies have been increasing," Mahurin said.
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