Demos la bienvenida a los nuevos miembros de nuestro equipo.
The Scranton Area Community Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of new members to both our staff and the Board of Governors.
The Scranton Area Community Foundation’s Board of Governors and staff are committed to the Foundation’s mission of enhancing the quality of life of people in Northeastern Pennsylvania through the development of organized philanthropy.
Conozca a Jana Nelhybel, Directora de NEPA Thrives de la Scranton Area Community Foundation.
Please join us in welcoming
Jana Nelhybel to the Scranton Area Community Foundation as the
NEPA Thrives Manager.
La Scranton Area Community Foundation, junto con muchos socios de la comunidad, ha creado
La NEPA prospera, an equity-driven workforce-based initiative focused on identifying opportunities and solutions to Northeastern Pennsylvania’s workforce challenges.
In her role, Jana will execute the goals of the NEPA Thrives steering committee, focusing on ensuring a workforce strategy that connects the unemployed or underemployed in Northeastern Pennsylvania to job skills training and opportunity employment.
Jana is thrilled to be working with regional and national funders, local and regional officials, industry representatives, educational institutions, and key employers both from the private and public sectors to strengthen partnerships and build effective talent pipelines and career pathways for jobseekers in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
La misión de NEPA Thrives es encontrar soluciones a los retos de la mano de obra del noreste de Pensilvania, incluida la formación profesional, el acceso y la alfabetización digital, y el cuidado infantil asequible y de calidad, con el fin de crear una economía regional robusta y en crecimiento en la que prosperen las personas, las familias y los empleadores.Jana Nelhybel brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position including 15 years of development and communications leadership roles at workforce development, arts, and youth nonprofit organizations. She also has worked for the federal government for several years in international trade. Before moving to the area from Washington, DC, Jana was the Grants Manager at Jubilee Jobs, a nonprofit organization that helps people with barriers to employment find jobs.
Jana has also held management positions at organizations including HumanitiesDC and AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation and has completed an Arts Management Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jana was previously an International Trade Specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce where she served as the Acting Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Prague, Czech Republic, and was one of the Commerce Department’s leads on Afghanistan investment and reconstruction.
Jana has an MA in International Affairs from American University and a BA from Bucknell University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sitar Arts Center, a cradle-to-career arts education nonprofit in Washington, DC, where she had volunteered teaching the violin for many years.
Jana can be reached at
jana@safdn.org.
Welcome, Jana!
Bienvenida a los nuevos miembros del Consejo de Gobernadores
The Scranton Area Community Foundation is proud to announce two elected members of the Board of Governors.
Dra. Patricia Fox y
Dr. Thomas Minora, both of Lackawanna County, have joined 13 other board members to serve as stewards of the Foundation to carry out the mission of enhancing the quality of life for all people in the Lackawanna County region through the development of organized philanthropy. Both newly elected members have diverse backgrounds and talents, filling vacancies from those who have recently retired from the role. Serving a term of a maximum of three three-year terms, or nine years, the new board members have been elected because of their varied skill sets and their knowledge and understanding of community issues and opportunities.
Patricia J. Fox, Psy.D. is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice with a Financial Psychology niche. She has a particular interest in helping women make a positive adjustment to sudden wealth; the philanthropic habits of high-net-worth women; and reducing the racial wealth gap.
She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. in General Psychology and a Doctor of Psychology from Marywood University.
Dr. Fox avidly promotes women’s well-being via psychotherapy, teaching, speaking, and community outreach. She is active with the Scranton Area Community Foundation’s
Mujeres en la filantropía program that seeks to empower and transform the lives of women and girls, where she provides educational programming in the area of financial well-being for two of their five initiatives,
Small Business Development y
Financial Well-Being and Economic Education.
Dr. Thomas Minora is an internist who has been practicing medicine in Scranton for over 39 years. He is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. His past clinical appointments include clinical instructor for Commonwealth Medical College and an assistant clinical instructor of medicine at Scranton Temple Residency Program.
Entre sus cargos en el consejo de administración figuran PrimeMed, P.C., Northeastern Pennsylvania Physicians Organization y Moses Taylor Physician Hospital Organization. También ha sido tesorero y vicepresidente de la Lackawanna Medical Society. Es uno de los fundadores originales de la Media Maratón de Scranton y actualmente forma parte de su junta directiva. El Dr. Minora reside en Clarks Summit con su esposa.
La Scranton Area Community Foundation está comprometida con la buena gobernanza, indicada por un consejo que refleja los diversos intereses de las comunidades del noreste de Pensilvania. El Consejo de Gobernadores de la Scranton Area Community Foundation establece la política, administra los activos de la Fundación, dirige los esfuerzos para aumentar la dotación y supervisa los esfuerzos de concesión de subvenciones para garantizar que se cumplan los deseos filantrópicos de los donantes.The staff of Scranton Area Community Foundation is composed of dedicated professionals who are devoted to helping our generous donors connect to the causes that they care about most.
Our Board of Governors and staff work to make our region a better place to live and we are proud to serve in the community.
You can learn more about our Foundation leadership
aquí.
