FAIRMONT – After Fairmont-based Tygart Valley United Way last month failed to make its annual campaign goal for the first time in 20 years, the organization’s CEO Brett White vowed to regroup.
Said campaign netted $541,500 – bringing it just short of its goal of $605,000.
Every cent, every dollar is significant, White said.
The take goes to the support of a lot of people, and a lot households, in a sizable swath of the Mountain State.
Tygart Valley United Way helps support 42 programs in 30 human service endeavors across Marion, Taylor, Barbour, Randolph and Tucker counties.
“This moment is an opportunity,” the CEO said then. “It encourages us to listen, adapt and evolve.”
The organization White oversees this week took the first step to adaptation regarding its mission and future campaigns to follow.
It launched a regional community survey designed to help the agency recalibrate.
Visit https://www.tvunitedway.org/ to take the survey, which is open through May 15.
Food insecurity, behavior health issues and preventative health care are among the subjects addressed in the survey, White said.
Responses netted, he said, will drive future funding and the mission in general.
And he’s hoping for a good response, he added – because people across the five counties it serves always give a good response to the Tygart Valley United Way.
Volunteers regularly fan out during the organization’s annual Day of Service activities, visiting the actual nonprofits served while working on fix-up projects from painting to retooling computer systems.
During this past Christmas season, the congregation of a church in Fairmont contributed $30,000 to the campaign.
“The impact of your voice will last for years to come,” he said.
