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Rise Up For Youth Announces New Executive Director - 8/14/17
Rise Up For Youth has announced Ariel Rodriguez-Williams as their new executive director who started on August 14th, 2017.
Ariel joins Rise Up For Youth from the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence where he was Director of Special Initiatives. His work centered around youth programming, funding, and developing relationships that fostered growth in their programs.
This is an exciting time in the history for Rise Up For Youth. The hiring of the executive director marks a pivotal moment in the strategic plan. This will allow the program founders, David and Lynn Gilkey, and others to focus on the organization’s mission of empowering youth to reach their full potential.
About the hiring, Lynn, said “David and I will continue to set the vision for Rise Up For youth, but now we will have the support of strong leadership in the operations and management side of the organization, which will allow us to deliver ever improving programming to our students.”
Rise Up For Youth has announced Ariel Rodriguez-Williams as their new executive director who started on August 14th, 2017.
Ariel joins Rise Up For Youth from the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence where he was Director of Special Initiatives. His work centered around youth programming, funding, and developing relationships that fostered growth in their programs.
This is an exciting time in the history for Rise Up For Youth. The hiring of the executive director marks a pivotal moment in the strategic plan. This will allow the program founders, David and Lynn Gilkey, and others to focus on the organization’s mission of empowering youth to reach their full potential.
About the hiring, Lynn, said “David and I will continue to set the vision for Rise Up For youth, but now we will have the support of strong leadership in the operations and management side of the organization, which will allow us to deliver ever improving programming to our students.”
