Contact: Jessica Klos Shapiro
Public Policy and Communications
Coordinator
518-690-4217 ext 32
jklos@earlycareandlearning.org
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:
1/23/13
Director of Development joins Early Care & Learning
Council
As
Early Care & Learning Council’s new director of development, Jessica
Mansmith is particularly excited about working with the Early Care &
Learning Council’s network of 35 child care resource and referral agencies
throughout New York State.
Jessica
began her nonprofit career at the age of 16. Through her high school and
college studies (University at Albany ‘99), she worked with youth at the YMCA
of Fulton County, Fulton County YWCA’s Bebee Taylor Daycare Center, the Fulton
County Jewish Community Center, David S. Van Santen Day Camp, and Albany Center
Gallery.
In
2005, Jessica moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked for Silicon
Valley Community Foundation (Peninsula Community Foundation, pre-merger). She
managed a multi-million dollar portfolio of over 100 donor advised funds, advised
high-net worth families on their philanthropic goals, made discretionary grants
to nonprofits focused on glaucoma and ovarian cancer, garnered collaboration
among fund holders to pool their resources on special projects, and served on a
committee granting English and Journalism scholarships to promising female
students in need of financial assistance. Jessica credits her mentors at Silicon
Valley Community Foundation for influencing her decision to make the nonprofit
sector her lifelong career.
Jessica
graduated with a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration from the University of
San Francisco in 2009. Prior to moving back to New York in 2012, she was the assistant
director of financial development for the YMCA of San Francisco, director of
development for the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, a consultant for The Marine
Mammal Center, and the director of development for Clausen House in Oakland.
Jessica volunteered for the Association for Suicide Prevention, Root Division,
and SF Open Studios. She was a member of ACLU, The Commonwealth Club, the
Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Northern California Planned
Giving Council and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. Before joining
Early Care & Learning Council, she was the director of development for Big
Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region and consultant to The Pride Center
of the Capital Region. She volunteers with the Women’s Fund of the Capital
Region and sits on the board of directors for Albany Center Gallery.
“It’s
a gift to work such an immensely knowledgeable and professional network dedicated
to creating positive change in child care across New York State,” Jessica says
of her new position at ECLC. “They do it incredibly well;
being able to point to a nonprofit’s high-caliber work and measurable impact is
a fundraiser’s dream.”
“The
creation of the Director of Development position and our hiring of Jessica –
who is a talented and successful fund raiser – is a giant leap forward for the Early
Care and Learning Council,” said David Voegele, Executive Director of the ECLC.
“We expect to generate substantial new resources in support of the Child Care
Resource & Referral programs, so they can better serve the families and
children of NY”.
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Early
Care & Learning Council: For more than thirty-five years, the Early Care
& Learning Council has been a leading voice for early care and education in
New York State. With its statewide
network of child care resource and referral agencies, the Council has
successfully fought for increases in funding to support early childhood
programs and for the reform of child care laws, regulations and policies to
improve safety and quality in child care settings. The Council and partners
work to increase the quality, affordability and capacity of the early care and
learning field and does so through training and technical assistance, data
management and advocacy initiatives. For more information, please call (518)
690-4217 or visit www.earlycareandlearning.org.
