If you're a business owner, allowing United Way representatives to speak to your staff about automatic payroll deductions will bring them and the community closer together. In addition, individuals can help through the United Way's Legacy Society. This allows donors to provide for the community long after they've passed on. The organization can work with individuals and families so that charities are left stock, real estate, life insurance proceeds or retirement plan benefits. Independent of donations, there is another way to help.
Every charity is served by a board of directors.
Charities often need to fill positions with people of energy, passion, good ideas and a commitment to the greater good. The Seacoast has many such people. Regardless of one's wallet or purse size, individuals can place their name on a list maintained by the United Way that charities use in finding prospective board members. The Portsmouth resident is a National Vice President of the Ripon Society, a Washington-based think tank of moderate and progressive Republicans. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Portsmouth Herald, Seacoast Newspapers or the Ripon Society.