The employees of Devereux will never cease to amaze me. My executive assistant, Bobbi Lewis, has been with this organization for more than 40 years in a wide range of positions. Maggie McGill started in direct care more than 30 years ago and is now our Chief Financial Officer. Supervisors, teachers, housekeepers, and clinicians have given their entire careers to helping Devereux work with our society’s most challenged individuals.

Last year Devereux had its first United Way employee campaign in southeastern Pennsylvania. More than 400 employees from the corporate offices and our three southeastern Pennsylvania Centers pledged over $73,000 to support United Way’s wonderful work in our communities. Devereux was honored by the United Way as the outstanding new campaign in the region.

As we entered our second campaign in October of this year, I was worried about whether we could exceed our first year’s effort. Once again, our employees amazed me. Our 2007 campaign raised almost $95,000, an increase of more than 25%. Alba Martinez, the dynamic President of the Southeastern Pennsylvania United Way, said to us at the end of the campaign, “If everyone delivered like Devereux, our problems would be solved.”