David V. Barr– President

David V. Barr assumed the presidency of United Way of Florence County, Inc. effective January 2001. David recently retired after 31 years of state service, most recently as a Vice-President at Florence Darlington Technical College where he received an Outstanding Educator Award and two Administrator of the Year Awards. 

 

David holds a bachelor’s degree from SC State University and a master’s in Community and Occupational Programs in Education from USC-Columbia. He is a graduate of Leadership Florence, Leadership South Carolina, and the National Executive Leadership Institute as sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College.

 

A long time civic volunteer, David has served on the boards of the SC Children’s Trust Fund, the Pee Dee Workforce Investment Board, First Citizens Bank Advisory Board, the State United Way Board, and the Governor’s Education Oversight Subcommittee on Governance. David has also served as a strategic planning facilitator for such diverse organizations as the Pee Dee Work Force Investment Board, Keep Florence Beautiful organization and the Chamber of Commerce’s Building Bridges Program.

 

David currently serves on the Mayor’s Coalition on Juvenile Violence Prevention, Florence Monday Rotary, Past Board Chairman of the SC Association of Non Profit Organizations, SC Alliance for Adult Literacy board, United Way Assn of SC board, and is Past Peer Group Chairman of all statewide chief executives of United Ways in South Carolina.

 

 

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