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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Westminster welcomes new city administrator Barbara Matthews


Westminster welcomes new city administrator Barbara Matthews


Jan. 4, 2017 by Jon Kelvey

Westminster has a new city administrator in Barbara Matthews, a local-government professional with 30 years of experience in cities from Missouri to Maryland, most recently a 3 1/2-year stint as the city manager of Rockville. Wednesday was her second day in Westminster's administrative offices at 56 W. Main St.

"Right now, I think my focus is just getting to know the staff, getting to know the community," Matthews said. "Over the next two weeks, I will be spending some time with each of the department directors, learning about what they do, going out into the community, seeing some of the facilities and seeing some of the projects that we have going on."

Rockville aside, Matthews has spent most of her career managing city governments about the size of Westminster and said she enjoys communities that are both historic and continue to evolve and change with the times.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Jon Kelvey Carroll County Times: Nonprofit Center celebrates 10 years of incubating social good

Jon Kelvey Carroll County Times: Nonprofit Center celebrates 10 years of incubating social good http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/local/ph-cc-nonprofit-center-20160519-story.html

May 19, 2016

Incubators may be en vogue in the entrepreneurial tech world of Silicon Valley today, but when it comes to incubating nonprofits and building social capital, Westminster has been a leader since 2006, the year the Carroll County Nonprofit Center was born.

On Wednesday afternoon, more than 100 people filled a large conference room at the center's Clifton Boulevard location to celebrate a decade of its providing low cost, no rent homes for nonprofit organizations focused on helping the people of Carroll County.

"We've taken a lot of nonprofits from basements of churches, shopping centers, out of their homes," said Nonprofit Center Director Mark Krider in an interview. "This gives them stability, it gives them an address, it gives them a place to volunteer. People don't want to volunteer in somebody's home, or a basement of a church."

Standing at the podium Wednesday, Krider ran down some of the impressive statistics associated with 10 years of giving nonprofits a home: more than 55,000 families helped by agencies housed in the center; more than 148,251 volunteer hours served, a $3.9 million value; and 34 different agencies housed at one time or another. Current tenants include Habitat for Humanity; the Marriage and Relationship Education Center; and Head Start/Catholic Charities, which, Krider noted, has enrolled almost 2,000 children since becoming one of the first tenants in 2006.


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My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/


See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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