The United Way Community Partnership of Howard County raised more than $2.25 million from local companies, employees and individual contributors last year, United Way officials announced last week, $38,000 less than in the 1993 campaign.
"We are pleased with how our community has come together to help our neighbors," said Gary Smith, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and chairman of the county campaign. "We have the momentum and excitement and willingness necessary to do what it takes to serve the citizens in Howard County."
United Way official also announced that $947,000 was returned to Howard County in 1994 to help more than 63,000 residents.
More than 150 Howard County businesses and organizations participated in the 1994 United Way campaign, including the Rouse Co., Howard County General Hospital, the county government and public schools, Safeway stores and the Enterprise Foundation.
The United Way of Central Maryland -- which includes Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties -- raised a total of of $30.8 million in 1994, 2 percent more than in the previous year.