Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.

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Executive Director

Chartered Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Professional || Certified Community Action Manager

Education

• Graduated from William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1965.
• Attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Experience

• Executive Director of Audubon Area Community Services since 1975.
• Executive Director of four-county Audubon Area Community Services, Inc. parent agency from 1971 to 1975.
• Social worker.
• Employment counselor.
• Pastor of two Southern Baptist churches.

Additional Information

• One of seven organizers of Leadership Kentucky in 1984-85.
• Executive director Leadership Owensboro from 1984-85.
• Chairman of Leadership Owensboro from 1997-99.
• Instrumental in forming Leadership West Kentucky in 1998.
• Received Leadership Owensboro's first Distinguished Leadership Award in 1987.
• Instrumental in organizing Kiwanis International's world-wide service program - Young Children: PRIORITY ONE - in 1988-89, and was International Chairman Kiwanis International Committee leading effort.
• Served as chairman of three Kiwanis International committees since 1990.
• Governor of 9,000-member Kentucky-Tennessee District of Kiwanis from 1987-88, earning a distinguished rating.
• Editor of Kentucky-Tennessee District Newsletter, K-T Notes from 1988-98.
• Certified Kiwanis trainer for both club officers training and Kiwanis' Leadership Development Program.
• Historian For Life for 1987-88 Kiwanis Class of Governors.
• 1981 Fellow at National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA) in Washington, DC, during which time he wrote, "Why Community Action? A Response to the Heritage Foundation Report." NACAA subsequently published the report and credited it with "saving" community action. That year, the core funding for CAAs was recreated in the form of Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), the only funding stream common to all CAAs nationwide.