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Charlotte Lunsford 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 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 serves as director on the boards of the Central Carolina Community Foundation and United Way of the Midlands and as past chair of the United Way of South Carolina. 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. 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. | 