Leadership
MISSION:
United Way of Northwest Louisiana fights for the health, education, financial stability, and essential needs of every person in our community.
VISION:
We envision a community where all individuals and families achieve their human potential. :
OUR COMMITTMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:
We recognize that in order to achieve our mission, we must continuously strive to be relevant and responsive to our community as a whole. As the diversity in our community grows, we must be increasingly intentional about aligning our practices and policies. United Way of Northwest Louisiana understands diversity to include all human characteristics that make us unique as individuals. It includes everyone and excludes no one. Inclusion is our strategy to leverage the diversity of our community.
OUR VALUES:
Service and Community Focus:
We foster and encourage the active involvement of individuals, groups, organizations, corporations and labor in our work of serving the community with high-quality, high-value, and relevant human services.
Integrity and Respect:
We are honest, ethical and transparent as we serve. We are caretakers of individual worth, self-respect and our donors’ resources.
Code of Ethics
Donor Bill of Rights
Collaboration: We work together productively as an organization and with our partners. We act in ways that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person.
Accountability and Professionalism: We take responsibility for commitments and delivering professional, high-quality, and relevant results.
Innovation and Excellence: We seek innovative ways to meet our mission through the creativity and excellence of our staff, volunteers, and community.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Gayle Flowers
Board Chair
Bossier Parish Community College
John Schmidt
Immediate Past Chair
Certified Public Accountant
MarketPlace Chevrolet Buick
SHANEE` BAILEY
CenterPoint Energy
ED BARR
International Paper
KEITH CARTER
Always Best Care
LARRY CLARK
Louisiana State University
KENNY COX
Louisiana House of Representatives, District 23
DARRIN DIXON
Southern University
BRITTNEY DUNN
BD Accounting Services
RODNEY ELLIS
Southern University
MARK EVANS
Regions Bank
STORMY GAGE-WATTS
Oschner’s
JOHN HAYTER
Reynolds LLC, Attorney
Argent Mineral Management
WENDY HORTON
Wendy Horton Law Group, LLC
GREG LOTT
Progressive Bank
KEVIN MAY
May Core Real Estate
DON OLSON
Hunt, Guillot & Assoc., LLC
KAYNE PIERCE
Citizen’s Bank & Trust of Vivian
CHRISTOPHER POPLAWSKI
Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino
HONORABLE MAYOR LEE POSEY
City of Natchitoches
MARK SNOW
Aillet, Fenner, Jolly & Mcclelland, INC
MERRILL WAUTLET
Regions Bank
C.R. “BUDDY” WOOD
Wood Cr Wood Insurance Agency Inc. / State Farm, Sabine Parish
