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Search Success! Tom Janenda Joins Maine Community Foundation as Vice President of Communications and Marketing

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Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) and Pillar Search & HR Consulting are pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Janenda to the position of Vice President of Communications and Marketing. Tom joined the organization full-time on September 3, 2024.

Tom has decades of experience as a senior communications strategist and leader nationally and statewide in Maine. He served as Deputy White House Communications Director under President Clinton and has led communications in values based, mission driven organizations across the business, political, advocacy, and not-for-profit sectors. Tom brings strong relationships in all those sectors plus a passion for economic opportunity, conservation and climate resilience, and equity including Wabanaki sovereignty.

With deep family roots in rural Maine, including a potato farm in Patten and a pharmacy in Old Town, he was happy to finally move to Maine in 2003 to lead communications at Tom’s of Maine.

As Vice President of Communications and Marketing, Tom will join MaineCF’s senior leadership team and will develop and oversee the implementation of comprehensive communications and marketing strategies that enhance the Foundation’s visibility, brand, and impact among target audiences including donors, prospects, and community/opinion leaders across sectors.

In accepting this position, Tom said, “For over 40 years Maine Community Foundation has brought people and resources together to build a better Maine. I am excited to join this exceptional team as it builds on that record of community leadership to make significant, widely shared, and lasting positive impact on the critical issues facing Maine communities today.”

He will be based out of MaineCF’s Ellsworth office.

About MaineCF: Founded in 1983, MaineCF brings people and resources together to build a better Maine through strategic giving, community leadership, personalized service, local expertise and strong investments. They offer a range of giving options tailored to fit each donor’s financial means and charitable objectives. Their staff provides personalized service, community leadership, and a deep understanding of local issues. To learn more about MaineCF, please visit https://www.mainecf.org.

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting: A woman-owned business based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and the boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent. Pillar’s founder, Cindy Joyce, is a Certified Diversity Recruiter. For more information about Pillar, please visit www.pillarsearch.com

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Search Success: Sher Omerovic Named JVS’ New Chief Program Officer!

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JVS Boston and Pillar Search & HR Consulting are proud to announce, following an extensive and competitive candidate search, the appointment of Sher Omerovic to the position of Chief Program Officer.

This is a well-deserved promotion from Sher’s most recent role with JVS as Senior Vice President of Programs. Sher joined JVS in 2016.

Reporting to JVS’ CEO, Kira Khazatsky, Sher will lead the core of JVS’ work – the development, quality, and delivery of JVS’s services. Sher will provide strategic leadership to the programmatic Vice President team to ensure alignment with the organization’s mission and goals, and support and develop the programmatic VP team to achieve programmatic outcomes. She will collaborate with other principal executives to ensure long-term strategic planning and board management align with the organization’s mission and goals.

Sher brings extensive program, workforce development and leadership experience to the Chief Program Officer role. Prior to JVS, she worked at the Fish Family Foundation, where she developed and implemented a statewide citizenship initiative partnering with multiple community organizations, immigration attorneys, and volunteers to organize large-scale citizenship events across the commonwealth, and held roles in immigration and employment with Catholic Charities of Boston and in grants with United Way. Sher earned her master’s degree in nonprofit project management from Northeastern University and her bachelor’s degree in international relations and modern languages from Beloit College.

About JVS Boston: For 80 years, JVS has helped tens of thousands of individuals with barriers to economic success secure financial independence through training, education, and employment services.  As the largest provider of adult education and workforce development services in the region, JVS is a nationally recognized leader in workforce development, and is a key part of the poverty alleviation strategy for the greater-Boston area.  In order to reach people in need of assistance on their pathway to meaningful employment and financial independence, JVS targets most of its services to low-income individuals who are unemployed or underemployed and to low-wage workers in need of career advancement services.  Many have multiple support needs ranging from limited English proficiency and lack of education to disabilities, criminal records, lack of childcare and transportation.  JVS operates on annual budget of more than $15 million, of which is derived equally from public and private sources. For more information, please visit www.jvs-boston.org.

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting: A woman-owned business based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. For more information, please visit www.pillarsearch.com.