 Eric Fraint meets with Eric Fraint, President and Founder of Your Part-Time Controller, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Fraint was named to the prestigious position shortly before GPCA’s annual meeting on Sept. 27, 2010, for which Your Part-Time Controller was lead co-sponsor with Bank of America. The event serves as the premier networking event for arts and culture professionals representing the diversity and vibrancy of the Delaware Valley’s thriving arts community. The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance provides research, marketing, resources, funding, and public policy programs to help cultural organizations reduce expenses, increase revenues and save time. GPCA increases awareness of and support for the cultural sector in the community and leverages that public value by demonstrating the role of the arts in the health, vitality and economy of the region. Fraint joins 33 other noted community leaders from the arts, culture, education, law, finance, government, and the media who guide GPCA’s policies in support of over 375 member organizations.
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A TRIBUTE TO PEGGY AMSTERDAM Thank you, Hal, for that very nice introduction. And thank you to Tom, the staff, and the board for giving our firm the opportunity to sponsor this event again this year. Your Part-Time Controller provides accounting and financial reporting services exclusively to nonprofit organizations. Our goal is to build stronger nonprofits, one accounting department at a time. However, what we really do is: HELP OUR CLIENTS SLEEP AT NIGHT! If financial problems are keeping you up at night, call me. But instead of me telling you more about us, I’d like to use my brief time up here to talk about Peggy and to tell a brief story about her. I first met Peggy at a meeting over at the Pew Charitable Trusts many years ago. We were introduced by Greg Rowe to begin a conversation about an idea for a new project which later came to be known as the Cultural Data Project. Peggy and I soon became friends, and later she became a client when she asked our firm to help the Cultural Alliance with its accounting. She was later a colleague when she joined me on the Board of The Philadelphia Foundation. Peggy was always sweet, smiling, upbeat, and positive. Yet she commanded the respect and attention of all those she lobbied on behalf of the arts community.
When she returned from her vacation she emailed me a photograph of herself. She was standing on the beach wearing a one-piece bathing suit, sunglasses, and our hat. Loving the picture immediately, I emailed it out to all of our staff. Within the hour I received a somewhat angry email from one of our newly hired staff members who did not know Peggy. She wanted to know why I was circulating a photo of what she called, and I quote, “a hot, scantily clad woman!” Very unprofessional of me, my staff member said. I told this story later to Peggy. She had a good laugh and said she felt complimented that my staff member thought she was hot! Peggy will be missed. But I’m pleased to say that Peggy’s legacy will live on in the hands of our new excellent and very talented executive director, Tom Kaiden, with whom it will be my pleasure to serve as a new Alliance Board member. Oh, one final note. Last year we brought our staff at YPTC up on stage to do a song and dance routine, but we ran out of time. Don’t miss this meeting next year: we may have a surprise for you. Thank you all. |
GPCA Names Fraint to Board
Even after her diagnosis, Peggy continued to maintain an active schedule, including vacations to exotic places. One such vacation was to Virgin Gorda, in the British Virgin Islands, in January 2007. She took with her on her trip a Your Part-Time Controller baseball cap, such as this one here. (By the way, these hats are only given to our staff and to our clients! If you want one, you will either have to join our staff or, better yet, hire us!!).
