Glebocki Stepping Down from Wean Foundation
WARREN, Ohio -- The Raymond J. Wean Foundation announced today that its board of directors is "deeply disappointed" by the decision of its president, Jeffrey M. Glebocki, to step down from his position this summer.
Glebocki took the helm in 2011. According to the announcement, he "initiated discussion with the foundation’s board and has agreed to stay on for 90 days to ease the transition, ensure the organization’s community change work continues and so that a search for a successor can be launched."
The Wean Foundation's "core values and strategies will remain the same in going forward. .. The board is deeply disappointed about this transition, but understands the organizational evolution of the foundation, and is appreciative of Mr. Glebocki’s desire to help ease the coming transition.
Since the foundation was established in 1949 by industrialist Raymond John Wean, it has distributed more than $90 million in grants to nonprofit organizations. It makes annual grants of approximately $4 million to nonprofits based in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Here is additional text from the announcement:
Soon after assuming the position of president of the foundation in July 2011, Glebocki saw that the Foundation had been highly successful in building organizational capacity for a great many of its partners. It also became clear it was time for The Raymond John Wean Foundation to increase its efforts to build its own internal capacity to sustain its community change efforts.
Working with the board, Glebocki made it a priority to implement new internal strategies and enhance many of those already in place. Due to the hard work of the staff and the leadership of the board, over the last two years the foundation has experienced tremendous organizational development and the groundwork for a sustainable future has been laid. Some of these accomplishments include:
- The historic restoration of 147 West Market St. on Courthouse Square, the foundation’s new home.
- Conducting a strategic review process of the Foundation’s efforts that provided a focus on its five issue priorities and three key strategies.
- Strengthening the Foundation’s internal infrastructure, management and grantmaking process.
- Revamping the Neighborhood SUCCESS and Leadership Program.
- Revitalizing the Mahoning Valley College Access Program.
- Initiating and partnering on the Mahoning Valley Economic Competitiveness Project.
- Filling the Foundation’s nonprofit incubator space to near-capacity.
- Partnering with Inspiring Minds, City of Warren and Warren City Schools to launch a community planning effort on after-school and youth leadership efforts in Warren.
- Building the on-site Western Reserve meeting space into a well-utilized community asset.
As the organization moves forward and builds upon the platform now established, the foundation is entering a new phase in its development. Glebocki believes this next phase calls for a successor with a different bundle of interests and experience.
Glebocki will be returning to his home base of Tucson, Ariz., to expand Strategy + Action Consulting LLC, a company he founded that serves as an advisor to philanthropic institutions around the country.
SOURCE: Raymond John Wean Foundation
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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