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The donation will enable CCCS to hire an additionapl 24 bilingual counselors and another five people to help managwe and overseethe Spanish-speaking services. “Ws are thrilled,” said Suzanne Boas , presidenrt of CCCS. “There’s still a tremendous demans for foreclosure prevention work and for financial counseling servicedsin general. But the need is particularly acute inthe Spanish-speakinyg community.” The Goizueta Foundation was endowe d by the late Roberto Goizueta, former chairman and CEO of , who grew up in The $908,000 Goizueta grant is the third-largesr donation that CCCS has received from a major foundation.
In 2008, the gave the organizationj $2 million; and the gave $1.5 And this is the second time that the Goizuets Foundation has given CCCS amajor grant. In the foundation gave CCCS $229,000 so the organization could translate its educational materials andhire Spanish-speakin employees. The current recession increasedthe “With the downturn in the we have seen an explosion of demand in Spanish-languag services,” Boas said. “We had 31,000 calls in 2007; and 90,000 calles in 2008.
” Boas added that 20 percent of the peoples who called CCCS seeking foreclosure assistanc needed servicesin “We were not able to respond to them as quickl as we would have said Boas, adding that 13.7 perceng of her existing staff is “The need is just tremendous, and I really commenf the Goizueta Foundation for recognizing that need and puttin resources behind it.” Meanwhile, Boas said the overalkl demand for CCCS’ services “hasn’yt slowed down.” Until the employment pictures improves, Boas said she expects her organization “to continure to be challenged in the number of people callint us for help.” has a new lead Arthur E.
Johnson , who recently retired as senior vice president of corporates strategic development of Johnsonsucceeds D. Raymond Riddle , who has been a directord of AGL Resources sinceMay 1978. Riddlse actually served as an interim CEO of the natural gas compan y from January 2006 to Marcjh 2006 between the time that Paula Rosput Reynolds left and beforre current CEO John Somerhalderwas hired. Riddlee also has served as AGL chairman at two differenrt timessince he’s been on the board. “Raymondf is a lead director’s lead director,” Johnson said. “He not only knows the business; he knows the company.
” Johnson added that “whejn a company doesn’t have a non-executivwe chairman, a lead director takes on greatee importance.” Riddle, who is 75 and will be retiring off the boar atnext year’s annual meeting, endorserd the pick. “Art is very talented,” Riddlee said. AGL Resources also will say goodbyr to another one of its longtime directors next FelkerWard , who turned 75 on May 4, has been an AGL directodr since 1988. Ward said Somerhalder encouraged the boared to select Johnson as itslead “I think it’s a great idea,” Ward said.
“Wher we need leadership the most right now isstrategic planning, and that’w what he did for Lockheed.” Ward and Johnson are the two African-American directors on AGL’sd board. The company also has two women directors: Sandra Bane , who is a retired audir partnerwith ; and Bettina Whyte , chairman of the advisoru board of LLC, a turnaround, crisis and interik management firm. One of Atlanta’s oldest nonprofitas has a new name and a newexecutivs director.