Board of Directors
Our Mission: To provide vocational training and employment services to individuals with developmental disabilities in order to increase self worth, promote independence and prepare them to work as valued employees in the community.
The Board is responsible for:
- Determining how to carry out the mission of OBI through long and short range planning, review and evaluation
- Adopting an annual budget and providing fiscal oversight
- Raising funds in support of OBI
- Recruiting, orienting and developing Board members
- Hiring and evaluating the performance of the Executive Director
- Evaluating its performance and the overall performance of the organization in achieving its mission (Board Self Evaluation)
- Establishing policies for the effective management of the organization
Responsibilities of the Directors:
- Understand and promote OBI's Mission
- Be familiar with OBI's program and operations
- Be a working member of at least one Board committee
- Participate in resource development and fundraising
- Thank donors for their support
- Make an unrestricted annual gift to Opportunity Builders
- Contribute a gift to the Capital Campaign, when solicited
- Assist in Board membership development
- Advocacy
- Community education
- Review Board meeting materials before the meeting
- Identify any potential conflicts of interest
Opportunity Builders 2008-2009 Board of Directors
| Officers: |
| Name |
Company |
Title |
| Jennifer Brienza |
C. Edward Middlebrooks, PA |
President |
| Daniel Symancyk |
Anne Aundel Community College |
Vice President |
| Diane Eberle |
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine |
Treasurer |
| Judy McCorkill |
Community Advocate |
Secretary |
| Chet Lawrence |
Community Activist |
Immediate Past President |
| Community Representatives: |
| Name |
Company |
| Angela Balsamo |
Coffee News |
| McNeal Brown, Jr. |
Inland US Management, LLC |
| Catherine Purple Cherry |
Purple Cherry Architects |
| Gene Condon |
Arundel Mills |
| Lynda Davis |
Hopkins Elder Care |
| Hazel Heeren |
Department of Housing and Community Development |
| Bill Keuthe |
Keuthe State Farm Insurance |
| John Lehmann |
Community Activist |
| Mike Phennicie |
BWI Airport |
| Peter Stanford |
Colliers Pinkard |
| Fran Turcott |
Anne Arundel Community college |
| Jamar Williams |
Community Activist |
| Parent/Family Representatives: |
| Name |
Company |
| Teresa Ciepiela |
U.S. Army |
| Sara Gray |
PG County School |
| Glenda Hegarty |
Anne Arundel County Public Schools |
| Margaret Holmes |
Legel Aide Bureau, Inc. |
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| OBI Client Employee Representative: |
| Name |
Company |
| Matthew McCorkill |
Opportunity Builders, Inc. |
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Board of Director Meetings
| Event |
OBI BOD Meeting Date |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
January 20, 2009 @7PM |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
February 17, 2009 @7PM |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
March 17, 2009 @7PM |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
April 21, 2009 @7PM |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
May 19, 2009 @7PM |
| OBI BOD Meeting |
June 16, 2009 @6PM |
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To see a listing of Opportunity Builders Administrative Staff, click here.
