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United Way names Dickey award recipient

After three decades of voluntarism with the Lycoming County United Way, Jeannette Fraser Carter has been named as this year’s recipient of the Douglas C. Dickey Humanitarian Award, the organization’s highest honor, during its annual meeting March 28 at Trade & Transit Centre II.

“Jeannette is certainly deserving of this award,” said Scott N. Lowery, the agency’s executive director. “Her commitment to our organization has not only been long, it has been exemplary.”

Over the years, Carter served in a variety of roles, from president to a fund raising representative in the workplace, and she has always taken on each challenge with dogged determination, Lowery said.

“Volunteers with her stamina and sustainability are hard to find and very much appreciated when they are,” he said.

Carter got involved with the local United Way in 1986, when she served on a funds distribution allocation panel. From 1987 to 1997, she was a member of the board of directors and executive committee, during which time she chaired the Community Problem Solving Division. She advanced through the officer ranks to become board president in 1995. Her campaign experience included 14 years as the in-house campaign chair at Pennsylvania College of Technology. She now is campaign chair of the Education Division.

Over the years, she chaired the committee to revise the funds distribution system, negotiated the merger of two nonprofit human service agencies into a single agency, created a needs assessment model for the community-wide evaluation, developed the Venture Grant Program policies and procedures, conducted and interpreted two market research surveys on donor attitudes, and served on long-range planning, personnel and fund-raising policy committees.

“I am deeply honored to be recognized by the LCUW,” Carter said. “It has been a pleasure to work with committed volunteers and staff to provide funding for services aligned with the needs of individuals in Lycoming County. Over the decades, United Way has evolved into a data-driven organization that responds to community needs through evaluation of data and assessment of emerging community needs.”

Carter said she is motivated by the desire to ensure a safety net is in place for local people when times are hard.

The Dickey award is presented annually to individuals whose dedication, commitment and leadership have made a major contribution to the welfare of Lycoming County.

Presented since 1947, the award was renamed in 1997 to honor the memory of the late LCUW president, Douglas C. Dickey, who was among those lost in the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996.

“I had the honor of working closely with Doug Dickey during his tenure as president of United Way,” Carter said. “That relationship makes this award, named in his honor, especially meaningful to me.”

For ticket information, contact the Lycoming County United Way office at 570-323-9448.

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