Investors Committee
JOIN’s activities are overseen by a board of directors called an Investors Committee (IC). The IC meets on a regular basis to review JOIN’s strategy and operations. Each investor on the Committee represents an organization that annually pools or aligns at least $50,000 with JOIN.
JOIN currently has six IC members:
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1. Laura Boyce, Associate Vice President, Community Impact, United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Laura Boyce is the Associate Vice President of Community Impact for United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. She oversees United Way’s Financial Stability and Healthy Aging initiatives. Prior to joining the organization in 1994, she worked in public affairs at Scott Paper Company where she served as Media Relations Manager and coordinated employee community involvement programs. Previously, she served as Program Director for the National Association of Black Journalists. Ms. Boyce holds a BA in Geography from Vassar College, and is a 2006 graduate of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College.
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2. Robert Garraty, Acting Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Dr. Garraty’s work experience consists of over 40 years in workforce and economic development including stints at the PA Department of Labor and Industry, a statewide economic development agency, Penn State University, owner of a business, a local Workforce Investment Board and, just recently, the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board. Bob started his career in workforce development in 1969 as an Employment Interview and Employment Counselor in the West and North Philadelphia local PA CareerLinks (known then as State Employment Offices). |
He also served as the Head of Placement and Employment Counseling Services for the Employment Service, Regional Director for the Department in Erie, Executive Director of the labor-management economic development agency called the PA MILRITE Council and Senior Research Associate at the Penn State Institute of State and Regional Affairs. He also was President and CEO of the consulting firm Garraty Workforce Investment, Executive Director of the local South Central Workforce Investment Board and the statewide Pennsylvania Workforce investment Board.
He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration from Penn State University and has an undergraduate degree in History and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.
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3. Shawn McCaney, Program Officer, Environment & Communities, William Penn Foundation
Shawn McCaney is with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, where his grant making is focused on enhancing the quality of the built environment and advancing the overall economic competitiveness of Philadelphia. Mr. McCaney has also played a leading role in expanding the foundation’s grantmaking in public affairs journalism.
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4. Joseph Pyle, President, The Thomas Scattergood Behavior Health Foundation
Joseph Pyle, MA, has more than 20 years’ experience in behavioral health, serving eight years as a CEO at various institutions including MeadowWood Behavioral Health System, Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry, Malvern Institute, Friends Hospital, and presently serving as President of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation.
Pyle joined Friends Hospital in 1999, and has served as part of the Hospital’s executive team since that time. In 2004, he was named interim Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Managers, and set into place significant changes throughout the Hospital that improved patient care, contained costs, and brought the Hospital into full licensure and accreditation with all regulatory agencies. During that time, Pyle worked with the Board of Managers to seek, evaluate, and select a joint venture partner that would preserve both the Hospital’s patient care operations and continue the Board’s nearly 200-year old mission.
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After a national search of not-for-profit and for-profit behavioral health companies, the Board selected a partner and Pyle has overseen the legal transaction as well as guiding the Hospital staff and community through the change process which culminated on June 30, 2005. At the conclusion of the transaction, Pyle was named Interim Executive Director of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation. As of September 2006, Pyle was appointed President of the Foundation.
Prior to his administrative positions, Pyle held various clinical positions including Clinical Director of Adolescent Services at MeadowWood Hospital and psycho-educational specialist at Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. He held special education teaching positions in the Pennsauken, New Jersey and Montgomery County Intermediate Unit school systems.
Pyle sits on several non-profit Boards; the Board of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Board of the Family Planning Council where he has recently been appointed Treasurer. He also serves on several advisory boards including WHYY’s Health and Science Advisory Board and the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the Drexel School Public Health. He has most recently been appointed to serve on the Board of Friends Behavioral Health System. He has also served on the Boards of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, the Delaware Valley Health Care Council, Philadelphia Outward Bound, and served as co-chair of the Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaboration.
A graduate of LaSalle University, Pyle holds a Master’s Degree from Glassboro State College in School Psychology. Mr. Pyle lives in Chester County with his wife and their two sons.
5. Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Program Director for Philadelphia, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Donna Frisby-Greenwood is Program Director for Philadelphia at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
She joined Knight after 5 years as Director of College and Career Awareness and GEAR UP for The School District of Philadelphia’s Secondary Education Reform Division.
Ms. Frisby-Greenwood was named Executive Director of Inner-City Games Philadelphia (now After-School All-Stars) by then ICGF National Chairman, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after seeing her speak on Urban Youth Leadership Development at The World Affairs Council’s 50th Anniversary. She also served as a special advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger’s national foundation.
Prior to After-School All-Stars, Ms. Frisby-Greenwood served as Executive Director for Rock the Vote, a national non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting freedom of speech and educating and motivating young people to participate in the political process.
While at Rock the Vote, she tripled the organization’s revenue and was responsible for establishing the field outreach division, the Hip Hop Coalition for Political Power, now Rap the Vote, and the Rock the Vote Everyday civic engagement initiative. She also helped to establish the country’s first on-line and telephone voter registration campaigns. Frisby’s work at Rock the Vote is responsible for the increase of young African-Americans who went to the polls in the ’96 and ’98 election cycles as well as the overall increase in youth turnout in 2000. In 2000 she also served as lead consultant to Arianna Huffington for the 2000 Shadow Conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Frisby-Greenwood began her professional career as a Philadelphia 4-H Extension Agent with Penn State Cooperative Extension and she co-founded along with State Senator Vincent Hughes, Children First, Inc. where she also served as executive director. Frisby’s passion for youth afforded her the opportunity to serve as a National Urban Fellow in the Clinton Administration under HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros; as well as study youth civic engagement in South Africa as a Theresa Hoover Fellow and the influence of popular culture on youth in Turkey as an Eisenhower Fellow.
Frisby-Greenwood has served on numerous boards of directors and commissions. Her activism began at the age of 16, when she co-founded The Willingboro Youth Council NAACP. She has been recognized by Philadelphia Magazine, Ebony Magazine, The Philadelphia Business Journal, Essence and VIBE Magazines. She has received numerous awards and honors and was once dubbed by BlackVoices.com as one of America’s new “Kings.” She is a proud graduate of The Philadelphia Urban League Leadership Institute and Leadership, Inc. Philadelphia.
Ms. Frisby-Greenwood is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She received her Master of Public Administration from Baruch College in New York City.
6. Eric Nelson, Interim CEO, Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board
