New Phoenixville Community Health Foundation board members announced
>> The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation is welcoming four new members to its board.
“We are excited to introduce four new board members who have backgrounds in finance, community mobilizing, nursing, and social media,” according to a press release issued by the foundation. “Each Member will contribute their expertise, as well as their passion for the Greater Phoenixville community to the governance of the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation. We are proud to continue to add diverse voices to our table.”
The new board members began their term on July 1.
Here are the names and background information on the new board member:
• Chelsea Perugini: Chelsea’s expertise is in social media strategy and online community management. She currently serves as the associate director of social media at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is passionate about health education, violence prevention, and volunteerism.
Chelsea holds two bachelor’s degrees from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in Communications and Women’s and Gender Studies and is a graduate of PCHF’s Community Health Leadership Academy. This will be her first experience on a nonprofit board.
• Dolores (Dolly) Winston is a woman who wears many hats. She is a bestselling author, community mobilizer for Communities That Care in Phoenixville, and the community programs superintendent for the Borough of Phoenixville since 2000.
Dolly’s role with Communities That Care is to observe and examine the risk factors that cause problems in the community. She works with area key leaders and organizations to develop action plans that address both risk factors and their resultant problems. She is a facilitator, an implementer, and a people finder. Dolly Winston makes it happen.
Her mission is to mobilize a community through the efforts of collaboration, avoiding duplication of efforts; allowing the leaders of the organizations to sit down and work together to resolve issues.
Her true passion is to help people with urgent needs, assisting them in finding services to get back on the right track. Dolly serves on the Chester County Children & Youth Advisory Board and Southeast Region CTC/Commonwealth Prevention Alliance Coalition.
Dolly has received multiple awards and acknowledgments, and most recently she was the 2017 recipient of “The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award” given by the Phoenixville Social Concerns Committee. She also received an award in 2011 for “Recognition for Leadership, Service, Volunteerism, Dedication and Hard Work to the Community of Phoenixville.” In 2006, she received the “OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center) Believing and Achieving in the Better Community Award,” and the “Woman in Community Award” in 2004. Dolly has participated as a speaker for many leadership panels at several colleges and has been featured on talk shows and in the newspaper.
• Nick Bucci joins the board with a background is in finance. He is a financial advisor with BLBB Advisors, LLC. working with complex family groups and non-profit institutions. Additionally, Nick teaches graduate and undergraduate finance classes at two local universities.
Nick lives in Phoenixville and enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children. On most weekends they enjoy going to the beach or hanging out at home and exploring the many parks Phoenixville has to offer.
Nick is a graduate of Shippensburg University with a B.S. in Finance and Management Information Systems. He earned a Master of Business Administration from The Pennsylvania State University and a M.S. in Financial Services from Saint Joseph’s University. He is also a certified financial planner.
• Barbara O’Connor began her nursing career 31 years ago as a RN graduate of Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. To further her nurse training and education, she pursued both her BSN and MSN. For the past 20 years, Barb has dedicated her career to the discipline of community health nursing and maintains a certification as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.
One of her areas of focus is the health and wellbeing of the underserved populations, especially the Latino community within the Phoenixville Community. She has advocated for bilingual patient representatives to assist patients in navigating the complex healthcare environment.
In her personal life, Barb is married and is the proud mother of three children and has three grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with family and friends. Barb loves to travel, and the beach is her happy place. She also enjoys solving Soduko puzzles and watching HGTV.
About the foundation
The mission of the Phoenixville Community Health Foundation is to improve the health and quality of life for people in the greater Phoenixville region by increasing access to quality healthcare services and promoting healthy communities through grantmaking and collaborations with health, civic, business, and community partners. The Foundation works to make the greater Phoenixville region one of the healthiest places to live and work in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.