{"id":132484,"date":"2020-06-25T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132484"},"modified":"2020-06-25T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:04:37","slug":"bruns-2020-21-united-way-campaign-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/06\/25\/bruns-2020-21-united-way-campaign-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruns 2020-21 United Way campaign chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Way of Van Wert County Executive Director Vicki Smith announced Kim Bruns as the campaign chair for 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKim is going to be a great leader in this year\u2019s campaign. She has always reminded me that we are doing what we do to help individuals,\u201d Smith said. \u201cShe will be such an asset with working through this unprecedented time and how we do things a little different to raise funds and awareness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe actually volunteered to be the campaign chair in the midst of a new job change in her career,\u201d Smith added. \u201cWho actually does that except for a person with passion for the United Way like Kim?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruns grew up in Van Wert, graduated from Van Wert High School, and was one of the five finalists for the R.K. Thompson Self-Reliance Award in 1990. She graduated from Bowling Green State University and moved back to Van Wert because she loved the community that had a huge impact on her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruns, who said she wanted to give back to her amazing hometown, has worked for local social service agencies in her lifetime (Westwood and Thomas Edison).  She is currently the community services director for West Ohio Community Action Partnership, which offers several programs in the Van Wert community, and is also vice president and program chair for the Women’s Leadership Collective Board. Bruns has volunteered her time and support with many other local agencies (Crisis Care Center, Relay for Life, Special Olympics, and Thomas Edison,) but she truly loves and enjoys her volunteer work and support with the United Way because it assists individuals and families with a wide range of needs through the 33 agencies that it funds.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruns has been a member of the United Way Board of Trustees for the past six years, first joining as a member in 2015 and then the executive board in 2016. She has served on the Admissions & Review Committee, as well as being a member of the Day of Caring, Fiesta Fun Friday, Rivals United, Campaign and Chip in for Change committees. Now she will serve as campaign chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am excited to be this year’s campaign chair,\u201d Bruns noted. \u201cThis year’s campaign theme is #AlwaysUnited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have had great support over the past several years with our campaigns, but this year is going to be a different campaign,\u201d she added. \u201cWe know that there are so many people that have been affected with the Covid-19 pandemic: with loss of jobs, lack of food, kids needing extra educational support, and we want you to know that we are \u201cAlwaysUnited\u201d and there for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have been leading the way with our programs and agencies that have supported the hard times,\u201d Bruns went on to say. \u201cWe are going to need every donation this year to be able to continue to support our 33 programs. If we reach our goal of $500,000, we will be able to relieve the stress of our agencies having to do fundraisers and raise money to implement these needed programs. I hope that this year you are able to join me in the campaign that supports #AlwaysUnited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information United Way of Van Wert County Executive Director Vicki Smith announced Kim Bruns as the campaign chair for 2020-21. \u201cKim is going to be a great leader in this year\u2019s campaign. She has always reminded me that we are doing what we do to help individuals,\u201d Smith said. \u201cShe will be such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:35:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}