When it comes to a champion for United Way, few people can match David Minor, director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center at TCU. His strengths as an entrepreneur have translated into impressive growth for the United Way Tocqueville Society, whose members each contribute $10,000 or more annually to United Way.

While he chaired the local Society, membership grew from 110 to 151 members. Contributions increased from $2 million to $2.2 million.

Minor has been a member of the local Society since 1997. He has just completed two years as its chair and nationally has become one of 11 inaugural members of the new United Way of America Major Gifts Speaker Bureau.

“I tell people when I talk about United Way—and I talk about it a lot—that when you look at your philanthropy, you need to start with United Way because it has such a broad impact on our community,” he said. 

“I like the fact that it touches so many lives in so many different areas. The fact that United Way does the due diligence for you makes giving to the organization a good social investment. It became very apparent to me that the stronger communities, from a philanthropic perspective, had a strong United Way.”