ALAN L. JENNINGS Alan Jennings has been with the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley since 1980 and was appointed Executive Director in March, 1990. He has been the driving force behind a range of initiatives designed to improve the quality of life for low-income people. Among these initiatives are the Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania, the Sixth Street Shelter and its long-term transitional housing programs, the Energy Partnership, Safe Harbor Easton, the Lehigh Valley Coalition on Affordable Housing, the Home Ownership Counseling Program, and Lehigh and Northampton counties’ housing trust funds. He also conceived and led the creation of the Green Future Fund, an open space campaign that should eventually include more than $60 million in funding between Lehigh and Northampton counties.  During his tenure, CACLV grew from nine employees and a $500,000 budget to more than 80 employees and a budget (combining three subsidiaries) of nearly $7.5 million.  In 1993, he led the creation of the Community Action Development Corporation of Allentown, a subsidiary of CACLV that functions as its community development arm in Allentown, and serves as its Executive Director. In 1997, CACLV added a second subsidiary, the Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem. Mr. Jennings also serves as its Executive Director. He is also the Executive Director of a third subsidiary, called the Rising Tide Community Loan Fund. This federally-certified community development financial institution makes loans to small businesses that have difficulty getting credit from traditional sources.  He has served in an advisory role to many groups, including the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the Urban Availability Task Force of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and the community reinvestment boards of several local banks. He has worked hard to bring banks and community development groups together, negotiating over $400 million in formal commitments to low-income neighborhoods. Mr. Jennings also served as one of five delegates appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to represent Pennsylvania at the Presidents’ Summit on America’s Future in 1997.  In 2004, the PA Senate confirmed his appointment by Governor Ed Rendell to the State Planning Board.  In addition to the recognition CACLV has won, Mr. Jennings has received a number of personal awards. On January 1, 2000, The Morning Call named him one of the six most influential activists of the twentieth century. Other recent awards of note include the first-ever Leadership Lehigh Valley Impact Award (2006), Allentown Human Relations Award (2005), Ecumenical Service Award from the Lehigh County Conference of Churches (2003), and the Distinguished Service Award from the Bethlehem Jaycees (1995), the Allentown-Lehigh County Chamber of Commerce (1994), and the Parkland Area Jaycees (1992). In 1997, Lehigh Valley Magazine identified him in their first annual “Movers and Shapers” list.  As an outspoken advocate for low-income people, Mr. Jennings has lobbied extensively for progressive public policies, including testifying in front of many legislative and regulatory bodies at the local, state, and federal levels. He has also organized extensive studies on the economic and social status of low-income households. Mr. Jennings is a lifelong resident of Lehigh County. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he majored in Political Science and minored in Education. He is married to the former Denise Reynolds and has three daughters, Stephanie, age 26, Greer, age 24, and Haley, age 16.  The family attends First Presbyterian Church of Allentown.  05/07/07