Oct 14, 2026 · 25 min · 12 segments
United Way of Central Virginia once had a waitlist for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library; after expanding enrollment, it signed up about 500 more children following Parton’s death. Director of…
Hello, Chris.
How are you today? Hello, Joey.
Doing all right.
How about yourself? Doing well.
That's awesome.
So tell me a bit about yourself and just give me a brief overview of the work you do with United Way of Central Virginia.
Well, so as you mentioned, I'm director of development down there, which means in non-fancy terms that I handle all the fundraising.
United Way is an organization that's been here serving this community for over a hundred years and basically distilled down what we are as a fundraising organization.
We raise funds to support about 24 different nonprofits, about 34 different programs here in Central Virginia.
Wow.
The way I always like to kind of... put it in brief is to say that I'm out there fundraising and spending time bringing in the dollars so that these nonprofits that do wonderful work can spend their time out there doing the work that matters and not bringing in the funds that's going to support that work
right
Hello, Chris.
How are you today? Hello, Joey.
Doing all right.
How about yourself? Doing well.
That's awesome.
So tell me a bit about yourself and just give me a brief overview of the work you do with United Way of Central Virginia.
Well, so as you mentioned, I'm director of development down there, which means in non-fancy terms that I handle all the fundraising.
United Way is an organization that's been here serving this community for over a hundred years and basically distilled down what we are as a fundraising organization.
We raise funds to support about 24 different nonprofits, about 34 different programs here in Central Virginia.
Wow.
The way I always like to kind of... put it in brief is to say that I'm out there fundraising and spending time bringing in the dollars so that these nonprofits that do wonderful work can spend their time out there doing the work that matters and not bringing in the funds that's going to support that work
right
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