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VtPHA board member; Penrose Jackson receives the YMCA's Community Member Award

VtPHA board member, Penrose Jackson, is the recipient of the YMCA's Community Member Award after 24 years of service. According to the YMCA, "Penrose has been in the forefront – of guiding, of networking, of soliciting gifts, of building collaborations, of challenging us to do more, reach more people, and solve community problems. She is a gift to so many community organizations and individuals."

Penrose Jackson is Director of Community Health Improvement at Fletcher Allen Health Care. Beginning in 1983 she has served on the boards of health care organizations including the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and the Vermont Health Foundation (VHF). Since 1996, she has also served as the staff to the VHF, overseeing grants to community-based organizations whose efforts advance the VHF’s mission of improving the health of the communities it serves. Ms. Jackson served for thirteen years as the first Executive Director of the Church Street Marketplace. Subsequent to that, she filled similar positions at the National Gardening Association and the Intervale Foundation. Her community commitment has been extensive and includes board chair positions with the Burlington City Arts, Champlain Initiative, Childcare Resource and Referral Center, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Ethan Allen Homestead, First Night Burlington, Leadership Champlain, South Burlington Rotary Club, Women Helping Battered Women as well as with us at the Greater Burlington YMCA.

Currently, in addition to service on the VtPHA board, Penrose co-chairs Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer and the Winooski Community Center capital campaign, chairs the KidSafe Collaborative, serves as volunteer chair for the American Hospital Association’s “Go Red for Women” luncheon and sits on the boards of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Linking Learning to Life, the University of Vermont Alumni Council, and for 24 years served on the Board of the Greater Burlington YMCA.

The VtPHA is honored to haver her on our board!

VtPHA Board

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