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LSA President and CEO to Leave at Year End
August 15, 2011 (Baltimore, MD) - Jill Schumann, LSA President and CEO will leave LSA effective December 31, 2011, to move to a new opportunity.
Schumann said, “My career has been one of opportunities coming to me – most always to build or grow something new. ParenteBeard, one of the two dozen largest accounting/consulting firms in the country, is developing a mid-Atlantic nonprofit consulting practice and they have asked me to head up that effort.” She will begin her new position on January 1, 2012.
“My work at LSA has brought together my faith, my passion for the church’s work in the world, my earnest desire that all people have the barriers removed that allow contribute their gifts to community and my real love for Lutheran health and human service organizations and their leaders. I am quite certain I will never have work I love as much,” Schumann said.
Schumann has served LSA as President and CEO for 10 of the organization’s 14 years, taking over in May 2001. Previously, she had been Director of Member Services. Prior to her work with LSA, she launched Kairos Health Systems, a nonprofit post acute care alliance, and served in executive roles with nonprofit and for-profit organizations including on the senior team of Tressler Lutheran Services.
Schumann has consulted with church organizations, healthcare, aging services and social service providers particularly around innovative programming for the future. She leads regional and national task forces and project groups, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. She serves on the boards of directors of LeadingAge, the ELCA Board of Pensions, the Roundtable of National Faith-Based Health and Human Service Organizations and the National Human Services Assembly. She also serves on the Executive Committee of Leadership 18, a group of major national nonprofits, and on the advisory committee of the Listening Post Project at the Center for Civil Society Studies at Johns Hopkins University. For the ninth year in a row in 2011 she was named by the NonProfit Times one of the Top 50 leaders of power and influence in the United States.
Ted Goins, Jr., the LSA Board Chairperson, said: “Jill’s long list of accomplishments at LSA are too numerous to name, but the energy, enthusiasm, passion and abilities she shares with LSA have never been more evident than in the evaluation process the Executive Committee completed last month. It is with great sadness that we accept Jill’s resignation.”
The LSA Board is forming a search committee and will discuss plans at its scheduled meeting at the end of August.
Lutheran Services in America creates opportunities with people in thousands of communities throughout the United States and the Caribbean through more than 300 health and human service organizations connected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and/or The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Working neighbor to neighbor through services in health care, aging and disability supports, community development, housing, and child and family strengthening, these organizations together touch the lives of more than six million people or one in 50 Americans each year.
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For more information:
Jeanean Merkel, 410-230-3540 or 571-233-4492
