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Trident United Way works to strengthen our community by focusing on education, income and health.

These are the building blocks of a good life -- a quality education that leads to a stable job,
enough income to support a family and good health.

By giving, advocating and volunteering, we can create a community where everyone has the opportunity for a good life.
That's how we LIVE UNITED.

Trident United Way maintains its unwavering commitment to measurable results in the programs we fund.
 That’s been our promise to donors for more than a decade.

 

Release Date: 7/2/2010

Charleston Magazine Names Chris Kerrigan One of 35 Visionaries of the Last 35 Years

TUW CEO Has Led United Way to Unprecedented Growth

 

Charleston – Chris Kerrigan, Trident United Way’s President and CEO since 1998, is one of the Charleston area’s top 35 visionaries of the last 35 years, according to Charleston Magazine’s 35-Year Anniversary Issue.

 

Noting that Kerrigan has presided over a transformation that turned Trident United Way into a results-oriented community problem solver, the magazine placed him besides such notables as Joe Riley, Ted Stern, Thomasena Stokes Marshall and Jerry & Anita Zucker.

 

Under Kerrigan, Trident United Way is the fastest-growing large United Way in the nation, as measured by contributions. The organization has increased fundraising each of the last 12 years, despite the crippling recession that reduced overall philanthropy last year by 9% nationwide.

 

Kerrigan and his wife Beth live in Mt. Pleasant with their children Sara, an incoming freshman at Furman, Colin, a junior at Wando High and Mary Katherine, a second grader at Mt. Pleasant Academy.

 

This is what Charleston Magazine had to say:

(b. 1960) The “united way” is Chris Kerrigan’s life philosophy as well as the name of the nonprofit he’s directed since 1998. Kerrigan has transformed Trident United Way into a results-oriented community resource, channeling funds to solve root problems and create systemic change. His can-do enthusiasm has resulted in record-breaking campaigns year after year, with $8 million annually invested in direct community services benefiting thousands of Tricounty families.