Drexel Launches New Professional Development ?Program for Nonprofits

Panelists for the Oct. 22 workshop include:

• Sister Mary Scullion and Joan McConnon, co-founders of Project H.O.M.E a 447-housing unit and three-business organization founded in 1989 to provide supportive housing, employment, education and health care to chronically homeless and low-income individuals.?
• Alice Bast, the founder of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created in 2003 to raise awareness of celiac disease among the general public and the healthcare community.?
• Eli Massar, co-founder and acting director of Philly Car Share, a nonprofit car sharing organization in Philadelphia?
• Barbara Chandler Allen, founder and executive director of Fresh Artists, an innovative concept of student-centric philanthropy where Philadelphia children create art, donate images, and meet their financial benefactors in highly visible “corporate spaces of success.”?
• Jason Lutz, president and CEO of VILLA, a 23-store retail chain that sells youthful urban fashion and accessories that recently launched a campaign aimed at keeping teenagers on the path to college and a career.

For more information about Goodwin’s Leading-Edge Networks, email Rosalie Guzofsky at rg384@drexel.edu, or call 215.571.3922. To register for courses in the Leading-Edge Nonprofit Network, visit www.drexel.edu/goodwin/continuing, or contact Patricia Gremmel at pg32@drexel.edu, 215.895.2154.