{"id":118586,"date":"2026-02-20T00:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:38:13","slug":"nonprofit-leadership-program-celebrates-2026-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118586\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Leadership Program Celebrates 2026 Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the program\u2019s inception in 2017, 87 nonprofit professionals from more than 70 regional organizations have graduated from the program representing 10 counties. The program has created a network of high-performing individuals serving at nonprofit institutions, in addition to building an informal regional network of mentors and coaches for emerging nonprofit leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the 2025-2026 cohort of Scranton\u2019s Nonprofit Leadership Certificate Program and the organizations they represent are:<\/p>\n<p>Pam Anslinger, business development officer I, PA Housing Finance Agency (PHFA)<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Baab, philanthropic services coordinator, The Luzerne Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Freyne, executive director, Providence Pregnancy Center<\/p>\n<p>Rossanna Gabriel, executive director, Hazleton Integration Project, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Greene, business manager, Jewish Family Services<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Guzenski, workforce development LEAD center manager, Outreach<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Hayes Housel, executive director, Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Howells, designated institutional administrator, The Wright Center<\/p>\n<p>Tara B. Jones, executive director, Lackawanna River Conservation Association<\/p>\n<p>Alyse Kerr, executive director, Integrative Mind and Body<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Linko, deputy chief operating officer, The Wright Center for Community Health<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Masters, youth program manager, The Cooperage<\/p>\n<p>Christine S. Pirillo, DHA, senior director laboratory medicine, Geisinger Health System<\/p>\n<p>Dani Ruhf, chief executive officer and founder, Child Hunger Outreach Partners (CHOP)<\/p>\n<p>Helen Schmid, president and chief executive officer, Telespond Senior Services<\/p>\n<p>Conor Simon, grants and outreach manager, Wayne County Community Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Stark, NEPA program coordinator, Pennsylvania Environmental Council<\/p>\n<p>Jill Avery Stoss, president and CEO, The Institute<\/p>\n<p>Gina Suydam, director, external affairs, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/academics\/ksom\/accounting\/nonprofit-leadership-program\/index.shtml\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nonprofit Leadership Certificate Program webpage<\/a> or call 570-941-4047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the program\u2019s inception in 2017, 87 nonprofit professionals from more than 70 regional organizations have graduated from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10434,3318,56275,178,180,179,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-118586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-kania-school-of-management","9":"tag-ksom","10":"tag-nonprofit-leadership-certificate","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-the-university-of-scranton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}