Board of Directors
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
John Adams
Board Chair
Dr. Gayle Flowers
Immediate Past Chair
Bossier Parish Community College
Greg Lott
Vice Chair – Operational Excellence
Darrin Dixon
VC – Resource Development
John Tuggle
VC – Community Investment
Bruce Willson
President and CEO
Shanee’ Bailey
Centerpoint Energy
Ed Barr
International Paper – Mansfield Mill
Keith Carter
Always Best Care
Brittney Dunn
BD Accounting Services
Dr. Rodney Ellis
Southern University
Mark Evans
Regions Bank
Stormy Gage-Watts
Oschner Health System
Lyndon Johnson
Calumet
Wayne Lancaster
Coca-Cola
Don Olson
Retired
Christopher Poplawski
Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino
Malcolm Smoak
AEP SWEPCO
Mark Snow
Alliet, Finner, Jolly & McClelland Inc.