A Wider Circle founder launches new charity to combat poverty
Bergel leaving nonprofit he started 19 years ago By Rose Horowitch |
December 30, 2020
Mark Bergel, who founded A Wider Circle in 2001, is leaving to work on a new organization to combat poverty on a national level.
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Mark Bergel, who founded A Wider Circle 19 years ago, has stepped down from the organization to head up The Shared Humanity Project, a new nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty in America.
Bergel started A Wider Circle in 2001 to provide basic need items including beds, cribs and dishes and workforce training to people in Maryland and the D.C. area.