By BOB KECSKEMETY
Robert Boo, director of development for the Pride Center in Wilton Manors, will be leaving his position at the Center effective Friday, Decc 10. Boo has been with the Pride Center for five years.
Boo accepted the position of senior general manager with Sodexo Inc., an international managed services provider handling the Jackson Health System Nutrition Services Department in Miami-Dade County. In this capacity, Boo will be responsible for the six hospitals and one skilled care facility which comprise the internationally recognized health system.
During the past five years, Boo’s record of success as the center’s director of development included overseeing a dramatic and sustained expansion of Founders Circle membership, innovating the center’s branding and marketing, and laying the groundwork for a successful capital campaign. Boo is remaining committed to the future and success of the Center and has been approved to join the center’s Board of Directors in order to continue to cultivate donors, members and sponsors.
“I would like to thank the community for their kindness and generosity over the past five years,” said Boo. “It has been extremely rewarding for me to work with the staff and volunteers who have helped make a dream of the Pride Center at Equality Park become a reality. The Pride Center came together because so many dedicated people worked as a healthy, functioning community. I look forward to my new role as a board member at the center and being a part of its continued growth.”
With Boo’s departure, Paul Hyman, executive director of the Pride Center, is restructuring executive positions. The new deputy director position will be filled by Kristofer Fegenbush, who is in his fifth year and will oversee programs, operations, facilities and various administrative functions. Frank Gurucharri, PALS Project behavior health specialist, will replace Fegenbush as manager of the PALS Project.
The center is searching for a major gifts officer, which will take over many of the other duties of the former director of development. The focus of the major gifts officer will include: Founders Circle, corporate sponsorships, the Vision 2015 Capital Campaign and Planned Giving/Estate Planning.