{"id":22858,"date":"2025-11-03T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22858\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:29:10","slug":"allentown-community-mourns-loss-of-dedicated-workforce-leader-nancy-dischinat-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22858\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown community mourns loss of dedicated workforce leader Nancy Dischinat | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local leader who has spent more than four decades fostering workforce development in the Lehigh Valley has died.<\/p>\n

Nancy Dischinat, the executive director of the Lehigh Valley Workforce Development Board, died on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

“Nancy was a tremendous partner of the Chamber and a huge supporter of the Lehigh Valley,” said Tony Iannelli, President and CEO of the Chamber. “She worked 150% in everything she did. There’s only one Nancy Dischinat.”<\/p>\n

\u201cNancy was a champion for building the workforce for Lehigh Valley business,” said Barry Fisher, General Manager and President of WFMZ. “She was one of the most dedicated and hardworking business leaders in the region. Her passion for the Lehigh Valley and humor will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, Dischinat announced her impending retirement as the executive director, a position she’s held since 1998.<\/p>\n

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LV workforce development leader to retire after four decades of service<\/a><\/p>\n

“This wasn\u2019t an easy decision. This work, this team, and this community have been such a meaningful part of my life. I\u2019ve had the incredible honor of helping connect people to opportunity, supporting local businesses, and building partnerships that strengthen our region,” Dischinat said in a statement on LinkedIn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dischinat also said that the transition process was underway and that she was not stepping away from the position immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dischinat was 77 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local leader who has spent more than four decades fostering workforce development in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-22858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858","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=22858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}