After 29 years of working with the Centre County Youth Service Bureau, Denise Herr McCann is moving on to lead local nonprofit agency Centre Helps.
McCann will become executive director of Centre Helps effective Aug. 9, the organization announced on Monday. She succeeds Leanne Lenz, who, after four years in the role, became executive director of the Centre County United Way in July.
“I am honored to be joining the staff of an organization that provides such critical services to the Centre County community,” McCann said in a statement. “This year is the 50th anniversary of Centre Helps, and I’m looking forward to strengthening and expanding services so we can be there to help people in crisis and people who need us for another 50 years.”
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Creating Servant Leaders: Executive Director Zach Barton and Leadership Centre County help program participants make a difference in their community
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This story appears in the May 2021 issue of the Town&Gown
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the State College Community Land Trust has made its mission to sustain the vibrancy and diversity of the borough community by promoting affordable homeownership opportunities.
With 51 houses, 73 homebuyers, and providing financial education for more than 300 individuals, the land trust is focused on creating more inclusive housing opportunities.
“We hear a lot about affordable housing and the affordable housing crisis now, but even way back in 1996, pressure from Penn State student rentals and the growing university was driving housing costs up,” says Anna Kochersperger, the land trust’s outreach and development coordinator. “A lot of working families were leaving the borough at the time, so there was a keen interest to keep people in the borough, to keep a diversity of residents. Not just students, not just working families, but keep a good mix. So, the State College Community Land