Non-profit veteran hired to lead charge

July 7, 2009 - ACCESS is excited to announce that Erin Cox Weinberg will be joining the ACCESS Staff as Chief Program Officer this August.  She will be leading ACCESS in numerous programmatic growth projects, including ACCESS’s expansion to Springfield and Boston's College Completion Initiative. 

 

Erin Cox Weinberg comes to ACCESS following nine years of service at Jumpstart for Young Children, a social entrepreneurial early education non-profit.  Erin’s tenure there has included a multitude of roles all focused on building and growing programs, systems, and people. As Executive Director of Jumpstart’s Northeast Region from 2004-2007, Erin managed the implementation of the first-ever Jumpstart School Readiness for All Initiative, a community-based growth effort aimed at securing the partnerships and sustainable funding necessary to grow Jumpstart’s services to scale, community by community, in Boston. Under Erin’s direction, the Initiative provided individualized mentoring to more than 900 children in Roxbury, received the prestigious Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration, and expanded to neighboring Jamaica Plain, North Dorchester, and South Boston.

 

Erin exclaims, “ACCESS addresses an important and unacceptable problem - a lack of information, support, and resources prevent motivated would-be college students from pursuing a degree, thus limiting their earning potential and life success.  I am personally inspired by the organization’s mission, and I have been impressed by the effective and high leverage ACCESS programs that directly address the financial barriers of college access.  I am thrilled to be joining the ACCESS team at such a pivotal point in the organization’s development as we look to deepen and strengthen our work in Boston and explore ways to bring similar impacts to additional communities.” 

 

ACCESS is proud to have someone of Erin’s caliber and experience as a part of our team to support the work of our talented programmatic staff and we hope you join us in our enthusiasm in welcoming Erin to ACCESS.