The University again has surpassed its United Way campaign goal.
Peter Pellerito, the University’s campaign adviser, says that thanks to the “wonderful work of 375 volunteers,” $951,560 were raised. This year’s goal of $950,000 represented a 5.5 percent increase over last year’s.
Washtenaw United Way and several human service agencies had asked the University to take a leadership role in this year’s campaign in light of recent plant and business closings in the county, Pellerito says.
“The volunteers all worked very hard to make the goal. It was down to the wire, but we made it and we’re ecstatic.”
Washtenaw United Way raised $7,302,567, surpassing its $6.7 million goal by 9 percent.
Ann Arbor News Publisher David Wierman, who was chair of the county campaign, says that “one of the things we found throughout the campaign—which was true of the U-M folks as well—was that when you explain the need in the community, people here have been more than willing to dig deeper in their pockets and come up with the
money.”
