Our Mission*
United Way of Washington County, Virginia is a volunteer organization dedicated to increasing the organized capacity for people to care for one another through...

* Identifying, assessing, and priortizing community needs.                                                    Helping Washington County citizens with challenges, needs and crisis

* Collaborative fund-raising                                                                                                   Your gift helps more than one person or one charity

* Assuring effective and efficient distribution of funds                                                          Keeping overhead low

No other single unified effort does more for our community.

The Start of the United Way of Washington County

The Washington County United Fund was formed by local citizens in 1963.  It was formed for the purposes of assessing the need for human service programs on a consulting basis, to seek solutions to human problems, to develop and expand human service programs in Washington County, and to foster cooperation among local, state and national agencies serving this community.

Andrew Miller served as President of the first United Way Board of Directors.  Board members and officers included:  L.C. Angle, C.B. Hale, E.W. Potts, Pearl Jones, Ruth Austin, Mrs. T.C. Caldwell, D.M. Cooke, Mrs. Ernest Copenhaver, Ike Crabtree, Mark Farris, W.H. Groseclose, George A. Hall, Thelma Ireson, Mrs. James G. Johnson, Mrs. Fred McConnell, Mrs. Frank McClaughterty, Mrs. L.H. Mongle, Mrs. Oscar Porterfield, Mrs. David Roberts, Jr., Dr. Harrison Spencer, and George Summerson.