BRUNSWICK — Cyndy Carney, executive director of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, announced her resignation from the Brunswick nonprofit agency last week.
Carney headed the organization — which served 1,000 households in its food pantry and 27,000 meals in its soup kitchen last year — for four years.
A release from the program states that Carney has moved on “to pursue other challenges.”
Carney took over the organization from Terry Howell, who served for nearly 10 years as executive director of the soup kitchen and food pantry that opened in 1983.
Since that time, the organization has grown by leaps and bounds, serving just three households when it first opened.
In the release announcing Carney’s departure, Mike Boyd, chairman of the organization’s board of directors, said that she “leaves a very different MCHPP from the one that was here when she arrived in late 2007.”
“We are grateful for all she has done for the organization and wish her the best in her future endeavors,” Boyd said in the release.
Carney, of Phippsburg, came to the organization after serving as the coordinator for the Maine Housing Technical Assistance Consortium.
Through December, the organization’s program manager, Karen Parker, will serve as the interim executive director.
Prior to taking on that role at MCHPP, Parker worked in management roles at L.L. Bean and went on to gain continuing education certificates in grant writing, fundraising, human resource management and volunteer administration.
Parker holds a degree in business administration and is pursuing a master’s degree in organizational leadership.
Patty Kimball, development and communications director for the organization, said that there is no active search for a permanent executive director and that a search is tentatively scheduled to begin this fall.
Carney’s resignation follows a series of leadership changes at other local nonprofit groups within the last year, including at Tedford Housing and People Plus.
In September, Stacy Frizzle was named executive director of People Plus to replace interim director Jim Pierce, and former Tedford Housing executive director Don Kniseley moved on to become the executive director of Thornton Oaks Retirement Community, replacing Van McCullough.
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