AWARD WINNERS
PREVIOUS PHILANTHROPY DAY WINNERS SINCE 2009 Outstanding Corporation 2016 – The Michael J. Mungo Foundation 2015 – Wells Fargo 2014 – Colonial Life 2013 – Palmetto Citizens Federal Credit Union 2012 – SCANA 2011 – Enterprise Holdings 2010 – B106.7 2009 – Palmetto Health Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser 2016 – Mike Brenan and Sara Fawcett 2015 – Mollie Taylor 2014 – Bishop Redfern II 2013 – Barbara and Roger Blau 2012 – Sharon Bryant and Michael Seezen 2012 – Ron and Hannah Rogers 2011 – Bill McDaniels 2010 – Pamela Lackey and Scott Shockley 2009 – Steve Morrison and Mary Kennemur Outstanding Youth/Youth Group Fundraiser 2015 – Heathwood Hall students 2014 – Cardinal Newman School 2013 – Hammond School Student Body; Megan Marie Reardon 2012 – Rotary Club of Vista Night 2011 – Trinity Cathedral Youth Group 2010 – Miss Helen Clay/Airport High School SGA 2009 – Hammond School Red Cross Club Outstanding Fundraising Executive 2016 – Louis Fawcett 2015 – Maria H. DeHart 2014 – Ginny Waller 2013 – Denise Holland 2012 – Kathy Hill, CFRE 2011 – Mary Balbach 2010 – Anita Floyd 2009 – Love Collins III Outstanding Philanthropist 2016 – Frank and Sarah Brown 2015 – Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold 2014 – Debbie Zvejnieks 2013 – Melissa and Joe Blanchard 2011 – Phillip Edwards 2010 – Mr. and Mrs. William P. Kennedy 2009 – Darla D. Moore Outstanding Volunteer Group Fundraiser 2016 – Palmetto Health Foundation Board of Directors 2015 – Junior League of Columbia 2014 – Pink Posse Philes 2013 – Richland Library Friends 2011 – Women in Philanthropy 2010 – Young Leaders Society 2009 – Colonial Life Outstanding Marketing Professional in Support of Philanthropy 2016 – Ashley Dusenbury 2015 – Joey Wallace
BENNETT NAMED 2018 HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR
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he Humanitarian of the Year Award is given each year to an individual who clearly demonstrates extraordinary leadership in philanthropic and human services. It is the highest single honor of philanthropic achievement in the Midlands. United Way of the Midlands is pleased to announce the 2017 Humanitarian of the Year – Mac Bennett. For more than 35 years, James McCauley “Mac” Bennett has served the Midlands and the state of South Carolina. From 2005 to 2017, he served as president and CEO of United Way of the Midlands. During his tenure, United Way raised $120 million that served an average of more than 27,000 people in six counties. He led the $13 million effort to build Transitions, a homeless program that has served more than 5,000 people since 2011. He brought three competing local hospitals together, Lexington Medical Center, Palmetto Health and Providence, to create WellPartners, a dental and eye care clinic that has served more than 6,000 Midlands residents in its first year of operation. In 2007, he saw the need to mold a new generation of donors and led the creation of the Young Leaders Society, a group of United Way donors under the age of 40, with almost 500 members who have raised more than $5 million to date. Prior to United Way, Mac spent 14 years as the president and CEO of the Central Carolina Community Foundation and worked
Mac Bennett Former President and CEO United Way of the Midlands
at the University of South Carolina in various capacities from 1980-1991. In that time, he founded the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO, now Together SC) and served as the first chairman of the organization’s board of directors. Throughout his career, Bennett has been instrumental in efforts to improve training and education for people working in the nonprofit sector. Mac will be recognized in early 2018 at the Humanitarian of the Year Award Dinner.
Past Humanitarian of the Year Recipients United Way of the Midlands 2016 Steven and Stewart Mungo 2015 Paul Fant 2014 Judy Davis 2013 John W. Folsom 2012 Mike Brenan 2011 John D. Baker 2010 Cathy B. Novinger 2009 George W. “Bill” Rogers 2008 Martha Scott Smith 2007 Suzan Boyd and Ed Sellers 2006 Bill Cassels and Tobin Cassels 2005 Samuel J. Tenenbaum 2004 Guy F. Lipscomb 2003 Gayle Averyt 2002 Charlotte Lunsford Berry 2001 John W. Fling
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2000 Joe Anderson, Joel Smith and Bob Staton 1999 Betty Duffie 1998 Maj. Gen. Robert B. Solomon 1997 E. Perry Palmer 1996 Joseph L. Pinner 1995 Robert L. Blanton, Jr. 1994 Evan and Cindy Nord 1993 B. Palmer McArthur 1992 Sister Mary Jacob 1991 Jean W. Blount 1990 George C. Fant Jr. 1989 Frank S. Smith Jr. 1988 Virgil C. Summer 1987 William R. Ballou 1986 J. Willis Cantey 1985 O. Stanley Smith Jr. 1984 G. Cameron Todd www.columbiabusinessreport.com