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Shay Bilchik Named to the 2006 NonProfit Times Power and Influence Top 50 List
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Joyce Johnson
Phone: 804/492-4519
Cell: 703/980-7641
E-mail: jjohnson@cwla.org
August 15, 2006, Washington, DC -- For the Fourth time CWLA President and CEO Shay Bilchik has been named to the Non-Profit Times (NPT) Power and Influence Top 50 List. The August 1, 2006, edition of the industry magazine selected individuals who they describe as having gone through rain, fire, pestilence, civil unrest, pandemics, and gloom of night, all the while trying to keep up with a need for services when bringing in new funding sources is increasingly more difficult.
The list also includes those with the power to affect the way non-profit organizations do business such as Senator Charles Grassley, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Mark Everson, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, and H. Art Taylor, President and CEO of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. Editors and expert panelists selected the top 50 from a field of more than 200 nominees.
This year's report describes Mr. Bilchik as a "top lobbyist who heads the 900-member CWLA, which educates legislators that protecting vulnerable children is a family matter," and cited CWLA's Framework for Community Action as a blueprint for those in the non-profit sector and elected officials to use.
"We are thrilled that this honor has once again been bestowed upon Shay for his leadership of the organization. We appreciate the recognition that this award brings to Shay and to the work of the dedicated Child Welfare League staff and members as they advocate for the needs of children and families. His hard work and dedication to CWLA's mission is an inspiration to us all," said George Swan, CWLA board chair.
Mr. Bilchik is the only leader of a national child welfare organization to make the list, however, several leaders in human services were also honored: Irv Katz, President of the National Human Services Assembly; Brian Gallagher, President and CEO of United Way of America; Charles Gould, President, Volunteers of America; David R. Jones, President & CEO of the Community Service Society of New York; Israel L. Gaither, National Commander of the Salvation Army; and Jill Schumann, President & CEO, Lutheran Services in America. In addition to Bilchik, the two standouts in the area of children's services included Roy L. Williams Chief Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America and Roxanne Spillett, President of Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Among the leaders NPT singled out for their work are Melinda Gates, Co-Founder and Patty Stonesifer, Chief Executive Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Susan Berresford, President of the Ford Foundation; Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; and William D. Novelli, CEO of AARP.
The full report can be read on NPT's website.
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