It’s Your Business
Uniontown Hunt inducted into hall of fame
Karen Hunt, the Fayette County Community Action Agency’s (FCCAA) director of finance, has been inducted into the national Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Financial Director’s Hall of Fame.
LISC assists resident-led, community development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into vibrant areas. By providing capital, technical expertise, training and information, LISC supports the development of local leadership and the creation of affordable housing, commercial, industrial and community facilities, businesses and jobs.
FCCAA has received financial support and assistance through LISC. Hunt will now work with LISC to train other fiscal staff in communities all over the nation.
Already through LISC, Hunt served as a presenter at the 2004 Financial Management Professionals’ Conference held in Chicago in July 2004. This month she was one of two participants chosen to present an online event “Beyond Strategic Planning: Linking Financial Goals to your Annual Work Plan.”
Hunt has more than 30 years of experience in the accounting field and has been in her current position for 12 years. Hunt’s dedication to the mission of FCCAA has been fundamental to its growth from a $2.3 million dollar budget when she was hired in 1992 to its current $7.5 million dollar agency budget. When calculating the budgets of FCCAA’s affiliate corporations into this, Hunt manages more than $15 million dollars annually.
In her tenure with FCCAA, Hunt has assisted in the development of a nonprofit health center where she is now a board member, a 60-unit elderly housing complex through a tax-credit program where she serves as board treasurer, a community development corporation and a housing development corporation. Hunt also implemented an agency indirect cost allocation plan and a program-support pools cost allocation plan.
Hunt, along with James Stark, executive director of FCCAA, were recently selected to serve on the National Grants Management Association Uniform Guidelines Committee that has been formed to develop a number of uniform practices for nonprofits including common grant budgeting, accounting, cost allocation and financial reporting guidelines for federal and state grantor agencies.
Before Hunt’s tenure began with FCCAA she was the vice president of an insurance company. Hunt attended Penn State University and has received numerous certifications.
Monongahela
Reposky named at MVH
Brownsville native Michael Reposky has been named director of environmental services at Monongahela Valley Hospital and Regional Cancer Center.
In this capacity, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the departments of housekeeping and laundry at the hospital.
“We are very pleased to welcome Michael to our staff,” D. Ray Andrews, vice president of administration and support services at Monongahela Valley Hospital, said. “His experience and expertise will enhance the functions of the departments which he is in charge of in his new duties.”
Reposky is a graduate of Brownsville Area High School. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Penn State University.
Prior to joining the staff at Monongahela Valley Hospital, Reposky was director of housekeeping at Community General Osteopathic Hospital in the Pinnacle Healthy Systems in Harrisburg.
He also worked previously as a sales associate at the Sears Roebuck store in Uniontown.
The son of George and Johanna Reposky of Brownsville, Reposky and his wife Christy reside in Brownsville.
Rostraver Twp.
Kinder new director at center
Nancy Wolfe Kinder has been named membership services director at Monongahela Valley Hospital’s Center for Fitness and Health at WillowPointe Plaza in Rostraver Township.
Kinder, who has more than 20 years of administrative experience, is in charge of programs designed to develop and retain memberships at the Center for Fitness and Health.
She also works directly in sales and marketing at the facility.
“We are very pleased to have Nancy on staff,” Thomas J. Cullen, senior vice president at Monongahela Valley Hospital who oversees operations of the facility, said. “Her experience in business and administration will be an asset to the goals of the Center for Fitness and Health. She has a solid track record in developing and maintaining relationships in an account management capacity.”
Kinder, a West Newton resident, earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from California University of Pennsylvania.
She also has attended extensive sales training courses and educational programs. She is a native of Uniontown who relocated to the area after living and working in Sarasota, Fla., for 16 years.
Prior to coming to the Center for Fitness and Health, Kinder worked as a pharmaceutical representative for Medical Services of America where she was responsible for medication programs for physicians and nursing facilities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Her previous experience also includes administrative sales, marketing and admissions positions with Hewlett Packard, Office Depot, Eye Specialists Surgery Center, Micro Warehouse, Feisco Insurance Corp. and Manor Care Nursing Facility.
For information about the Center for Fitness and Health, people may call Kinder at 724-379-5100.