North Shore United Way names Buddy Hoffman of Deerfield to board

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Updated: February 27, 2012 8:08AM

North Shore United Way has named Jonathan Webb, of Evanston, and Buddy Hoffman, of Deerfield, to the NSUW Board of Directors. Webb and Hoffman are joining 23 board members from across the North Shore region. The board is responsible for more than $1.3 million allocated to local health and human service agencies annually, as well as programs serving North Shore residents in crisis.

“Our Board is committed to making a meaningful impact in our community,” said NSUW Board President, Marla Glabe. “I am pleased that we have elected two new directors, Buddy and Jonathan, who, with their broad business and personal experience, can help us live united and transform communities of greatest need on the North Shore.”

Buddy Hoffman is a managing member at Mastermind Advisory Council, partner at Buddy Hoffman CPA, and an independent consultant to privately held middle market companies in various industries. He has served as audit director at Deloitte and partner at Grant Thornton and successor firm.

Hoffman has a strong background in accounting and finance. He has advised CEOs of national and international high growth companies, including lending his expertise to projects in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Romania, France, Israel, India, Norway, Netherlands and China.

Hoffman graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an accounting degree. He and his wife live in Deerfield. Hoffman enjoys traveling, biking and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

Jonathan Webb, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., serves as the community health division manager for the City of Evanston. Webb manages programs on important issues, including obesity, tobacco, diabetes, cancer screenings, children’s dentistry and family insurance programs. He is staff support on the city’s Mental Health Board.

Webb also serves on the Board of Directors for the Evanston Community Development Corporation and was previously a member of the McGaw YMCA’s Program and Membership Committee, currently serving on their Residence Committee.

Webb received a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Union University and a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University. He and his wife live in Evanston with their two children. Webb also volunteers as an assistant coach for the Federation of African American Men’s Youth Basketball league.

NSUW, in partnership with United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, helps support 35 North Shore agencies and 35,000 families in the 18-community region. Across Chicagoland, United Way is helping transform communities of greatest need through the organization’s 10-year vision, LIVE UNITED 2020. Over the next decade United Way will: ensure 100,000 families advance their economic stability, 50,000 under-performing middle school students enter high school ready to succeed, and 200,000 individuals have access to available, preventative health care. As part of LIVE UNITED 2020, NSUW unveiled its education initiative in fall 2011, which provided more than $450,00 in large grants to Evanston and Highland/Highwood Park agencies serving early learners (children ages 0-5 years) and middle school students.

For more information about NSUW and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago network, go to www.LIVEUNITEDchicago.org/northshore.