UCP/CLASS to Hold 59th Annual Meeting

The 59th Annual Meeting will be held on Monday, June 21, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. This year’s meeting will feature guest speaker Diana Bucco. The board will also recognize Thomas Kearney, recipient of the Eugene Cohen and Frank Bolden Meritorious Service Award. To honor the lives and work of UCP/CLASS’s Board Members, the Eugene Cohen and Frank Bolden Meritorious Service Award was created in 2005.  This award is given every year to a UCP/CLASS board member that has shown outstanding leadership qualities. The meeting will also welcome returning and new members to the board.

Keynote Speaker: Diana Bucco, President of The Forbes Funds

Diana Bucco is the President of The Forbes Funds, a Pittsburgh-based foundation that supports nonprofit capacity-building, research, and leadership development.

Previously she was the founding director of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership and The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania. She is on numerous boards and advisory committees including YouthPlaces, the YWCA, and Advancing Academics and is a member of the Women’s Funders Roundtable.

Nationally, she serves on the Independent Sector Public Policy Advisory Board and the National Council of Nonprofits Board of Directors. She has been recognized by Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40 and was the recipient of a German Marshall Fellowship. She was also recognized by the state as one of the top ten of the GenX generation. Ms. Bucco holds bachelor’s degrees in communications and political science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Welcoming New Friends: MSSS and ACRC

As of July 1, 2010, United Cerebral Palsy Community Living and Support Services (UCP/CLASS) and the Multiple Sclerosis Service Society (MSSS) will announce their merger when MSSS becomes a division of the services offered through UCP/CLASS. UCP/CLASS and MSSS have both been serving people with disabilities for more than 50 years.

UCP/CLASS also officially announces the beginning of a successful collaboration with the Alliance for Community Respite Care (ACRC). After discussions with members from both UCP/CLASS and ACRC’s Board of Directors an agreement was made to envelop ACRC into UCP/CLASS. ACRC will be a separate service system under the broader scope of UCP/CLASS and its other programs and services.

UCP/CLASS is very excited to welcome MSSS and ACRC to become a part of our agency. Please come to the annual meeting to celebrate these new and wonderful ventures with us.

To RSVP for this event, please dial 412.683.7100 extension 2219.