11/12/10 - Institute president and CEO Gerald D. Jensen joins board of public health organization

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: November 12, 2010
Contact: Jan Hollingsworth
jan.hollingsworth@siskin.org
423.648.1730

Gerald D. Jensen, president and CEO of Siskin Children’s Institute,
accepts appointment to Board of Directors for national nonprofit organization

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – At a meeting this week, Gerald D. Jensen, president and CEO of Siskin Children’s Institute, accepted an appointment to the board of directors with the national nonprofit Public Health Foundation Enterprises (PHFE).

Headquartered in the Los Angeles, Calif., area, PHFE’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people in communities nationwide by providing quality management services. The organization offers fiscal sponsorship—a practice in which a nonprofit provides administrative services to entities that align with its mission—to government, nonprofit and for-profit entities related to public health across the country.

PHFE provides its partners a wide range of services including strategic planning and consulting, grants management, systems migrations and personnel management. Through support from PHFE, agencies are able to reduce administrative overhead, improve accountability and spend more time and funding on programming and service delivery.

“PHFE is an organization with national influence and a board of directors with national representation,” said Jensen. “The Institute’s venture into the public health arena with our new developmental behavioral pediatric clinic and our location in the southeastern United States were appealing factors to PHFE in my appointment. I know both our organizations will benefit from the interchange of ideas.” 

About Siskin Children’s Institute
Siskin Children's Institute makes life better for children with special needs and their families. The non-profit organization achieves its mission locally and nationally through four initiatives: education, outreach, health care and research. The Institute provides early childhood education where children with and without disabilities learn together; family support and professional development programs; developmental behavioral pediatric health care; and innovative research in early childhood development and special education. For more information about Siskin Children's Institute, visit www.siskin.org.

About Public Health Foundation Enterprise
The mission of Public Health Foundation Enterprises is to improve the health and well-being of people and communities. One of the nation’s leading 501(c)3 nonprofit fiscal sponsors, PHFE has served nonprofit and government agencies since 1968. PHFE's staff provides a wide spectrum of nationally recognized infrastructure and support expertise through fiscal sponsorship, infrastructure management and consulting services. For more information about PHFE, visit www.phfe.org.