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Charlotte Lunsford Berry
Charlotte Berry began collecting dimes from classmates for her school’s Junior Red Cross chapter at age 12. Today, she has remained one of the Midlands’s biggest public advocates for human services. Through the years, she has generated millions of dollars for var- ious community service causes through personal donations as well as through the solicitation of public and private funds from others.
Ms. Berry is a recipient of numerous lo- cal and national awards, having spent the late 1980s traveling the world as the national chairman of volunteers for the American Red Cross, supervising and planning activities for 1.8 million vol- unteers. Berry’s early involvement with the Red Cross created an unwavering commitment to that agency as well as to the United Way of the Midlands. In anticipation of dramatic changes for the volunteer world within the next century, her interest in the 1990s focused on the motivation and education of boards and groups to provide more meaningful in- volvement of volunteers.
Currently, she continues to sustain rig- orous local volunteerism and active lead- ership nationally.
She is a board of trustees member of the United Way of America, the National Planned Giving Chair for United Way of America, the founding member of two Alexis de Tocqueville societies in Asheville, NC, and Columbia, SC, respectively, and a member of United Way’s Million Dollar Roundtable. She is the leadership giving chair for the Unit- ed Way of the Midlands and Co-Chair of Women in Philanthropy, a partner initiative of the Central Carolina Com- munity Foundation and United Way of the Midlands. She is the founding chairwoman of the National Museum Committee (History and Education Center) of the American Red Cross.
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