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

Darrin Dixon

Board Chair

Winnfield Funeral Homes

John Adams

Immediate Past Chair

Marketplace Chevrolet

Don Olson

Vice-Chair – Operational Excellence

Retired

Mary Webber

Vice-Chair – Resource Development

L&R Human Resource Consulting, LLC

Dr. Rodney Ellis

Vice-Chair - Strategic Planning

Southern University at Shreveport

Toni Tyner

Vice-Chair - Community Impact

Progressive Bank

John Tuggle

Chair-Elect

Shreve Memorial Library

LaToria "Tori" Thomas

President and CEO, Board Secretary

United Way of Northwest Louisiana

Katina Bruce
Shreveport Fire Department

Keith Carter
Always Best Care

Joni Claville
MD, MS, MBA, Humana Pharmacy Appeals

Stormy Gage-Watts
Ochsner Health System

Wesley Garcia
Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino

Lyndon Johnson
Calumet

Wayne Lancaster
Coca-Cola Bottling Company United

Paige Lasyone
Regions Bank – Minden

Amanda Nottingham
City of Bossier

Thomas O’Brien
Raymond James

John David Person
Wieland

Phillip Smart
Gibsland Bank & Trust

Ron Stamps
Ron Christopher Stamps, LLC, Caddo Parish, & the City of Shreveport

Patricia Vines
Regions Bank – Shreveport

Tia White
JP Morgan Chase