Lutheran Services in America Announces Habitat for Humanity, Y-USA, and Johns Hopkins University as Keynote Speakers for Its 2016 Annual Conference
Washington, DC, January 07, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Lutheran Services in America (LSA) is excited to announce its 2016 Annual Conference keynote speakers: Jonathan Reckford, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity; Johnathan Lever, Vice President for Health Strategy & Innovation, Y-USA (YMCA of the USA); and Dr. Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University and co-author of “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.”
Jonathan Reckford, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity: Under Reckford's leadership, Habitat for Humanity has grown from partnering with 25,000 families annually to more than 300,000 a year in the U.S. and more than 70 countries. As a nonprofit Christian housing organization founded in 1976, Reckford leads Habitat in its efforts to provide home construction, rehabilitation and repairs, and to increase access to improved shelter through products and services. His vision for the organization is founded on the belief that simple, decent and stable housing can provide a pathway out of poverty.
Reckford will share his faith-inspired journey with attendees as well as talk about how Habitat has cultivated innovative partnerships that expand their scope of services and reach new and diverse audiences.
Johnathan Lever, Vice President for Health Strategy & Innovation, Y-USA (YMCA of the USA): For more than a decade, Lever has been the chief architect and leader of the Y's response to the nation's lifestyle health crisis. Lever's strategic vision has helped establish ‘the Y' as an indispensable community-based partner in public health at the national level, building public and private partnerships with premier health organizations. His efforts have helped build the organization into one of the nation's leading nonprofits, serving 22 million men, women and children in more than 10,000 communities, working to improve the nation's health and well-being.
Lever will speak about how national nonprofit networks can leverage their local reach and collective resources to transform communities and how the Y-USA partnered with the National Institutes of Health and established the Y as an indispensable community-based partner in public health at the national level.
Dr. Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University: Dr. Edin is one of the nation's preeminent poverty researchers and authors, having published five books and over 50 journal articles. She is known for humanizing the face of poverty, and her latest acclaimed book, "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," looks at the 1.5 million American households, including about three million children, surviving on virtually no income. Dr. Edin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and works in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts.
Dr. Edin provides a fascinating look at the survival strategies of the desperately poor, the role that we play in our communities and what can be done at the national level to address poverty and inequality in America. Dr. Edin will share her perspective on the vital role steady jobs, safe places to live, community ties and dignity play in lifting people out of poverty.
In addition to her keynote address, Dr. Edin will also facilitate a panel discussion with other Lutheran social ministry leaders to discuss what can be done to break the cycle of poverty for the desperately poor.
The 2016 LSA Annual Conference, “Coming Together: Building the Path, Shining the Light,” will be held in Minnesota, April 25-28, 2016. at the Hilton Minneapolis. The conference, LSA’s largest event of the year, brings together hundreds of Lutheran social ministry leaders from health and human services organizations from across the country to discuss new opportunities and challenges affecting the nonprofit world in the United States.
To learn more about the 2016 LSA Annual Conference, visit: http://www.lutheranservices.org/AnnualConference2016
About Lutheran Services in America, Incorporated: Lutheran Services in America (LSA) is one of the largest health and human services networks in the country with more than 300 members that provide a broad range of critical services from health care to children and family services, senior services, disaster relief, refugee services, disability support, housing, and employment support, among others. Collectively, LSA members serve 1 in 50 people each year in thousands of communities across the United States and are open to all regardless of their religious affiliation or social or economic background. The LSA network is ranked at #23 on the Philanthropy 400, an annual listing of top charitable groups, and has a combined revenue of $21 billion. LSA is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). To learn more, please visit www.lutheranservices.org.
Jonathan Reckford, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat for Humanity: Under Reckford's leadership, Habitat for Humanity has grown from partnering with 25,000 families annually to more than 300,000 a year in the U.S. and more than 70 countries. As a nonprofit Christian housing organization founded in 1976, Reckford leads Habitat in its efforts to provide home construction, rehabilitation and repairs, and to increase access to improved shelter through products and services. His vision for the organization is founded on the belief that simple, decent and stable housing can provide a pathway out of poverty.
Reckford will share his faith-inspired journey with attendees as well as talk about how Habitat has cultivated innovative partnerships that expand their scope of services and reach new and diverse audiences.
Johnathan Lever, Vice President for Health Strategy & Innovation, Y-USA (YMCA of the USA): For more than a decade, Lever has been the chief architect and leader of the Y's response to the nation's lifestyle health crisis. Lever's strategic vision has helped establish ‘the Y' as an indispensable community-based partner in public health at the national level, building public and private partnerships with premier health organizations. His efforts have helped build the organization into one of the nation's leading nonprofits, serving 22 million men, women and children in more than 10,000 communities, working to improve the nation's health and well-being.
Lever will speak about how national nonprofit networks can leverage their local reach and collective resources to transform communities and how the Y-USA partnered with the National Institutes of Health and established the Y as an indispensable community-based partner in public health at the national level.
Dr. Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University: Dr. Edin is one of the nation's preeminent poverty researchers and authors, having published five books and over 50 journal articles. She is known for humanizing the face of poverty, and her latest acclaimed book, "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," looks at the 1.5 million American households, including about three million children, surviving on virtually no income. Dr. Edin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and works in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts.
Dr. Edin provides a fascinating look at the survival strategies of the desperately poor, the role that we play in our communities and what can be done at the national level to address poverty and inequality in America. Dr. Edin will share her perspective on the vital role steady jobs, safe places to live, community ties and dignity play in lifting people out of poverty.
In addition to her keynote address, Dr. Edin will also facilitate a panel discussion with other Lutheran social ministry leaders to discuss what can be done to break the cycle of poverty for the desperately poor.
The 2016 LSA Annual Conference, “Coming Together: Building the Path, Shining the Light,” will be held in Minnesota, April 25-28, 2016. at the Hilton Minneapolis. The conference, LSA’s largest event of the year, brings together hundreds of Lutheran social ministry leaders from health and human services organizations from across the country to discuss new opportunities and challenges affecting the nonprofit world in the United States.
To learn more about the 2016 LSA Annual Conference, visit: http://www.lutheranservices.org/AnnualConference2016
About Lutheran Services in America, Incorporated: Lutheran Services in America (LSA) is one of the largest health and human services networks in the country with more than 300 members that provide a broad range of critical services from health care to children and family services, senior services, disaster relief, refugee services, disability support, housing, and employment support, among others. Collectively, LSA members serve 1 in 50 people each year in thousands of communities across the United States and are open to all regardless of their religious affiliation or social or economic background. The LSA network is ranked at #23 on the Philanthropy 400, an annual listing of top charitable groups, and has a combined revenue of $21 billion. LSA is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). To learn more, please visit www.lutheranservices.org.
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