United Way Team

Elisabeth Buck

President

   

"I am privileged to lead an incredible team of professionals uniquely dedicated to our community and making life better for those who live here."

Senior Leadership Team

Renée Miller

Chief Community Impact Officer

Melanie Campbell

Chief Donor Engagement Officer


   

Sarah Roy

Chief Operating Officer


   

Andy TeBockhorst

Chief Strategic Communications Officer

   

Community Impact Team

The Community Impact Team at United Way of Central Iowa is led by Renee Miller, and is made up of a broad spectrum of nonprofit and community service experts. This team works closely with volunteers, nonprofits, and many other entities to develop and carry out the community impact strategies that are the core of our work in central Iowa. From research to collaboration to execution and beyond, this dedicated group makes sure the dollars raised have the maximum positive impact on our community.

Kate Bennett
Community Impact Officer, Education

Bob Brown
Building New Careers Coordinator

Shirley Burgess
Volunteer Engagement Officer

Stephanie Chin
Community Impact Officer, Income

Erin Drinnin
Community Impact Officer, Health

Dr. Helene Fein
Community Impact Services Director

Seth Johnson
OpportUNITY Program Director

Jody Kanne
Administrative Specialist, Community Impact

Lynette Kingery
Executive Assistant

Natalie Lynch
OpportUNITY Program Coordinator

Soneeta Mangra-Dutcher
Central Iowa Works Operations Director

Melissa McCoy
2-1-1 Director

Renée Miller
Chief Community Impact Officer

Stephanie Moris
Central Iowa HealthWorks Employment and Retention Specialist

Amber Ramirez
Central Iowa HealthWorks Program Manager

Marian Rueter Godwin
Research Associate

   

Holly Sagar
Labor Liaison (VITA)


   

Vanessa Sedrel
Community Investments Manager

Pat Steele
Central Iowa Works Director

Dave Stone
Advocacy Officer

Mak Sućeska
Bridges to Success
Program Manager

Rachelle
Talbott
Administrative Specialist, Volunteer Engagement.

Joy Talmon
Director, RSVP 55+ Initiative

Jana Tanner
Central Iowa HealthWorks Pathway Navigator

Teresa Taylor-Wolf
Data and Research Dir.

Donor Engagement Team

The Donor Engagement Team is made up of dedicated fundraising professionals, led by Melanie Campbell, who work to develop resources to support United Way of Central Iowa's mission to improve lives by uniting the caring power of our community, The team is responsible for all fundraising initiatives, including the Annual Campaign, Tocqueville Society, Major Gifts, Planned Giving, and Affinity Groups.

Stephanie Brockman
Donor Engagement Operations Manager

Melanie Campbell
Chief Donor Engagement Officer

Liz Fox-Cameron
Administrative Specialist, Donor Engagement

Ramona Gaukel
Grants Director

Bre Horstman
Corporate Engagement Manager

Sara Kurovski
Tocqueville Society Director

Ka'Meka Lowery
Women's Leadership Connection Director

Luke Lynch
Corporate Engagement
Manager

Julie Matternas
Corporate Engagement Officer

Jennifer McCullough
Administrative Assistant

Mandy Marcinko
Corporate Engagement Manager

Jaclyn Wulfekuhle
Director, Leadership Giving and LINC

Chase Young
Education Leadership Initiative Director

Loaned Executives

Each year, local companies partner with United Way of Central Iowa on its Loaned Executive Program—a crucial component of United Way of Central Iowa’s annual campaign. Companies ‘loan’ some of their best and brightest employees for three months to help support our campaign.

Loaned Executives meet with company leaders about their campaigns and United Way’s work in the community. They work with company campaign chairs on their workplace campaigns, provide resources and support, present information about United Way at employee meetings, and deliver consistent and effective United Way brand messaging throughout the community.

Julie Brownlee

Sarah Frickenstein

Karen Jones

Tom Jones

Erin Jost

LeAnn Larson

Catherine Smith 

Kyle Veenstra

 
Business Services Team

COO Sarah Roy oversees the Business Services Team, which is responsible for financial and budget management, administration and monitoring of fundraising and pledge processing and expenditures to ensure cost-effective support of programs, managing the organization’s technology and data assets, and administration of personnel and human resource functions.

David Blair
System Administrator


   

Jay Ekstrand
Senior Accountant

Nick Elliott
Pledge Services Manager

Deanna Ingebretsen
HR Director

Danielle Johnson
Finance Director

Stevie Johnson
Finance Associate

Karen Allen
Executive Assistant to the President and COO

Mike Morrissey
Building Engineer

Fran O'Grady
Senior Accountant

Sarah Roy
Chief Operating Officer

Kate Reed
Projects and Solutions Manager

Cathy Veal
Receptionist & Conference Center Scheduler

Adam Wildman
Data and Technology Director

Strategic Communications Team

The Strategic Communications Team, led by Andy TeBockhorst is in charge of all marketing, advertising, digital communications, media relations and event management to ensure consistent and effective communications to all segments of central Iowa to build awareness of the programs and initiatives we support, increase the engagement of our donors, volunteers and advocates, and tell the stories of the people in our community whom we have been fortunate to assist.

Derek
Lippincott
Marketing Creative Projects Manager

Andy TeBockhorst
Chief Strategic Communications Officer

Rachel
Vogel Quinn
Marketing Communications
Manager

Sarah
Welch
Strategic Communications
Officer