{"id":18058,"date":"2022-06-01T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=18058"},"modified":"2022-05-31T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:41:04","slug":"senior-connection-welcomes-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/01\/senior-connection-welcomes-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Connection Welcomes New Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Senior Connection has appointed Jovita Pi\u00f1a as its new executive director. With 15 years of extensive operating and nonprofit experience, Pi\u00f1a takes over a spot previously held by her mentor and co-worker for the past 15 years, Teresa Beahen Lipman. Pi\u00f1a will assume responsibilities starting July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, Lipman brought Pi\u00f1a onto the leadership team at the Senior Connection with the intent of Pi\u00f1a being her successor. Lipman\u2019s original retirement was planned for December of 2020, but the global pandemic forced the organization to push back its Sustaining Campaign, which Lipman wanted to see through to its successful end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lipman and Pi\u00f1a are credited with transforming the organization into a more efficient and sustainable operation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am beyond honored to be taking the Senior Connection torch from such a great leader.\u00a0 It is a very large and bright torch, but I am up for the challenge,\u201d Pi\u00f1a said. \u201cI know I can depend on the support of our staff, the board of directors and our members. I am grateful that they have trusted me to continue moving our organization forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lipman said she will be moving into her new Quigley Farm home this summer. By September, Lipman will serve as a consultant to the Senior Connection as needed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBesides my husband and my kids, this has, by far, been the best thing I\u2019ve ever done in\u00a0 my life,\u201d Lipman said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior Connection has appointed Jovita Pi\u00f1a as its new executive director. With 15 years of extensive operating and nonprofit experience, Pi\u00f1a takes over a spot previously held by her mentor and co-worker for the past 15 years, Teresa Beahen Lipman. Pi\u00f1a will assume responsibilities starting July 1. In 2017, Lipman brought Pi\u00f1a onto the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,78,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-hailey","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18065,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18058\/revisions\/18065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}