Charlotte Lunsford Berry
Ms. Berry is a
recipient of numerous local and national awards, having
spent the late 1980s traveling the world as the national
chairman of volunteers for the American Red Cross,
supervising and planning activities for 1.8 million
volunteers. In anticipation of dramatic changes for the
volunteer world within the next century, her interest in the
1990s focused on the motivation and education of boards and
groups to provide more meaningful involvement of volunteers.
Currently, she continues to sustain rigorous local
volunteerism and active leadership nationally.
She is a board of trustees member of the United Way of
America, the National Planned Giving Chair for United Way of
America, the founding member of two Alexis de Tocqueville
societies in Asheville, NC, and Columbia, SC, respectively,
and a member of United Way’s Million Dollar Roundtable.
She is the leadership giving chair for the United Way of the
Midlands and Co-Chair of Women in Philanthropy, a partner
initiative of the Central Carolina Community Foundation and
United Way of the Midlands.
She
is the founding chairwoman of the National Museum Committee
(History and Education Center) of the American Red Cross.
She serves on the boards of dozens of community
organizations, including the Palmetto Health Foundation,
Junior Achievement of Central South Carolina, Girl Scouts of
the Congaree Area, South Carolina Independent Colleges and
Universities, the College of Charleston, Carolina National
Bank, Volunteers of America of the Carolinas Inc. She
received the Order of the Palmetto in 2002 from then-S.C.
Gov. Jim Hodges, and in 2004 received the Cooperative
Ministry Outstanding Community Service Award.
Charlotte
received her bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Mary
Baldwin College in Stauton, Virginia, and studied economics
at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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