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LSA President and CEO Named to NonProfit Times
“Power & Influence Top 50” List for Seventh Year in a Row
August 5, 2009 (Baltimore, MD) - For the seventh consecutive year Jill A. Schumann, President and CEO of Lutheran Services in America (LSA), has been named to the "Power & Influence Top 50" compiled by the NonProfit Times. Schumann is one of the few leaders included in the list for seven years in row.
The list names leaders nationwide who are in positions of greatest influence in the nonprofit sector. “Executives who mobilize the masses for good and who manage their resources while blazing a path for others to follow make up the Power & Influence honorees this year,” according to the NonProfit Times.
"Forget that she’s a great manager who runs an organization with tentacles in every community in this nation. Sometimes a leader makes the list simply for inspirational purposes. Schumann was the original social networker, sans computer, when she wrote about ‘Making the Circle Wider, Building a Culture of Belonging’," reads the citation accompanying Schumann’s listing.
Schumann said, “Lutheran health and human service organizations in the United States have been compelled and sustained by their call to love and serve our neighbors. In preparation for LSA’s tenth anniversary, we asked our members how LSA should live that out in the next decade. It is our members who inspire me and the whole system to shape the future with enthusiasm, savvy and resolve to create communities that are generous, inclusive and just.”
The list is available on the NonProfit Times website.
Lutheran Services in America creates opportunities with people in thousands of communities throughout the United States and the Caribbean as an alliance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, and their 300 health and human service organizations. 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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