Bright Futures Exec Director Singer Honored Recently By Community
Bright Futures Exec Director Singer Honored Recently By Community
Community leaders gathered to honor Bright Futures for Youth founder Jennifer Singer as she steps down after 22 years of transformative leadership. Development Director Sienna Crawford will take the helm on January 1.
More than 125 community leaders, elected officials, and others recently attended a reception honoring Bright Futures for Youth cofounder and Executive Director Jennifer Singer at the Miners Foundry. Singer will be leaving at the end of the year to spend more time with her family and consult with other nonprofit organizations and companies in the region. She says it was a special night…
Singer says there have been a lot of highlights over her 30-plus years, 22 as Executive Director. And that includes the leap of faith that’s been taken over those years in growing and expanding, starting with the rennovation of the New Mohawk Road space…
It was formerly known as the Friendship Club, starting with a handful of high school and middle school girls in 1995, and has expanded to serve several hundred children and young adults every month. That’s about one of every 11 young people in western Nevada County. In addition to the Friendship Club, Bright Futures for Youth’s three core programs are the NEO Youth Center and SAFE, a program to help young people experiencing homelessness. Sienna Crawford, currently the Development Director, will become Executive Director on January first. She’s been with the organization for four years.
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