Sandra Pianalto
President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Chairman, United Way of Greater Cleveland

As Sandra Pianalto begins her term as Chair of the Board of the United Way of Greater Cleveland, she not only fills the large shoes of outgoing Chair Henry Meyer, Chairman and CEO of Key Bank, but she also helms the organization at a critical point in its history. As she tells Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready as their recent annual meeting at the Renaissance Hotel with over 1300 guests, United Way raised over $43 million in 2007 and are now set to launch their 2008 campaign to raise tens of millions of dollars from NEO's famously generous and philanthropic community once again. They talk about her 13 years on the United Way board, during which Ms. Pianalto helped develop a new Community Investment Plan which has entailed a new organizational structure, and engagement in research and outreach to see how the funds United Way has raised can be better utilized through their 130 partner groups to meet the agency's long-term goals on a more regional basis. Check the video for the upcoming Promapalooza hosted by United Way's YP group Generation NEXT on 04.12 here.

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