
One year later: Nonprofit startup poised for major milestone
Just over a year ago, Drew Mousetis began pitching the idea of direct employee ownership to anyone willing to listen.Now, he and the Lancaster-based nonprofit
Just over a year ago, Drew Mousetis began pitching the idea of direct employee ownership to anyone willing to listen.Now, he and the Lancaster-based nonprofit
Steve Knaub plans to retire effective Dec. 31 as president and CEO of Choices Healthcare, the Lancaster-based parent of Hospice & Community Care and Hospice of Central PA. The nonprofit’s board is conducting a national search for his successor.Knaub’s career in regional hospice began in 1998 when he was hired as CFO of Hospice & Community Care, based in […]
York-based nonprofit Community Progress Council has added two members to its senior leadership team.Lindsay Veres has been promoted to assistant chief program officer, while Melissa Morgan has been hired as its first chief operating officer.Veres worked most recently as CPC’s director of intake and coaching, where she was instrumental in creating a self-sufficiency program and […]
Lisa Hawthorne has been named CEO of Willow Valley Communities, a senior living provider based in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Formerly known professionally as Lisa Legeer, she succeeds John Swanson. Swanson now heads a related entity called Willow Valley Development Corp., which is focused on the organization’s active projects.Hawthorne worked most recently as chief strategy and […]
Enhanced federal tax credits help Pennsylvanians afford private health insurance in the market established more than a decade ago by the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. But the enhanced credits are slated to expire at the end of this year if the U.S. Congress does not extend them.If the credits lapse, the average Pennsylvanian with […]
The nonprofit parent of regional public media station WITF is divesting a subsidiary created in 2023 when the station was gifted a Lancaster newspaper. The board of WITF parent Pennon voted this week to transfer ownership of The Steinman Institute for Civic Engagement, which was founded to boost regional journalism resources and civic education.The institute’s new owners would be either the Lancaster […]
Environmental groups are slamming a proposed rule designed to help companies in Pennsylvania figure out when they need to disclose accidental spills of hazardous chemicals.Drafted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the rule aims to clarify what kinds of spills should be reported to regulators.But environmentalists argue the rule gives businesses too much discretion […]
Spring Grove-based Pixelle Specialty Solutions has revised the timeline for closing its plant in Ohio.The papermaker said yesterday it plans to cease production at the plant in Chillicothe on Aug. 10. The plant employed more than 800 people earlier this year, but it is not clear how many work there now.The company initially planned to […]
Paramount Management Group, the defunct Lancaster-based ATM network headed by Daryl Heller, sold and resold the same ATMs to the network’s investors, accounting for sales of nearly $22 million, according to a report filed yesterday by a court-appointed examiner in Heller’s bankruptcy case.The report appears to bolster investors’ allegations that they were defrauded by Heller and […]
Barley Snyder relocated its office in the capital region from downtown Harrisburg to East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County. The law firm’s new office is in a roughly 60,000-square-foot building at 275 Grandview Ave.The Lancaster-based firm employs 15 attorneys, four paralegals and seven staff members at its Harrisburg-area office, according to law firm spokesperson Elise Pini.An […]