Spirit of Giving Awards
* Companies of the Year: Large: Chattem Medium: Kenco Small: W.R. Grace Regional: Walker County Schools * Chairman’s Award: Henderson, Hutcherson & McCullough * Leadership Award: FSG Bank * Outstanding First-Time Campaign: Scottsboro Coca-Cola Spirit of Service Awards * Outstanding Company Coordinator: Gary Behler * CFC Service Award: Lyndsay Sneckenberger, TVA * Impact Volunteer of the Year: Ed Ryan, AT&T * Impact Program of the Year: Southeast Tennessee Veterans Coalition * Tocqueville Society Courage Award: John Coniglio
Russ Blakely, right, shakes the hand of former Times Free Press photographer John Coniglio before presenting him with the Tocqueville Society Courage Award at the United Way of Greater Chattanooga’s annual meeting and campaign celebration Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, at the Read House Hotel in Chattanooga, Tenn. United Way present its annual impact report and awarded its volunteers and donors.For years, $12 million seemed to be the upper limit of what the United Way of Greater Chattanooga could earn in donations, said Tom Glenn, chairman of the charitable organization’s board.
So this year’s fundraising amount of $12.7 million was announced with great fanfare at United Way’s annual meeting and campaign celebration luncheon in the Silver Ballroom of the historic Sheraton Read House downtown.
“That is a record,” Glenn said.
He credited it to Eva Dillard, who is retiring after 12 years as the first female chief executive and president of United Way of Chattanooga.