Category: Supporter Profiles
Volunteer Profile: Amanda Crawford
With a very insistent little reader at home, it was only natural that highly engaged Vystar employee Amanda Crawford expand her volunteer work to include making a difference as a ReadingPal.
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Volunteer Profile: Gil Smith
No stranger to helping children succeed, retired police officer Gil Smith gives back as a dedicated ReadingPals volunteer.
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Volunteer Profile: Monique Stokley
“I want to be a cheerleader for my mentee,” Stokley said. “I want to be there to give her inspiration and hope to help her through not only her transition in school, but also at home.”
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Volunteer Profile: Steve O’Neal
Steve O’Neal, a RealSense tax site coordinator in Palatka, puts his accounting skills to good use helping others file their taxes for free.
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Volunteer Profile: Charlie Adcock
After retirement, Adcock knew he wanted to stay active, so when he was asked to help with the archiving, of course, he jumped at the chance. He has since become an essential resource to staff, known for his wry sense of humor and research skills.
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Volunteer Profile: Norman Foy
Teaching through RealSense brought Foy back to the practical reality of economic choices people have to make every day. “For me, it’s giving them an opportunity to make things a little better.”
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Volunteer Profile: Susan Golden
The early desire to achieve and expect more of education was a heads-up to a lifelong career of leadership in education and volunteer efforts through United Way. Golden has been an advocate of change, pushing herself and those around her to look at the overall needs of education.
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Volunteer Profile: Russ Thomas
“If an organization’s business is its brain, then culture is the soul,” said Russ Thomas, CEO of Availity, an innovator in health information technology.
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Volunteer Profile: Mark Allen
Allen believes that putting an individual’s needs first is the way to succeed in business. It’s also how he approaches his volunteer work at United Way’s 2-1-1 phone line.
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Volunteer Profile: Matthew Laney
A head for numbers and business led Matthew to a career as an enterprise information architect. It also put him on a new path to helping others through United Way’s RealSense tax preparation program.
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