{"id":86873,"date":"2019-03-28T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=86873"},"modified":"2019-03-28T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:09:43","slug":"valley-youth-house-announces-eric-b-luftig-victaulic-as-new-board-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=86873","title":{"rendered":"Valley Youth House announces Eric B. Luftig, Victaulic, as new Board Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

BETHLEHEM, PA (3\/28\/2019) <\/strong>– Valley Youth House (VYH) is pleased to announce Eric B. Luftig, Vice President at Victaulic, has been named the organization\u2019s new Board Chair.\u00a0Luftig was appointed to this role by the Board of Directors on March 21, 2019.\u00a0He has been a member of the Valley Youth House Board of Directors since 2011, as well as a member of VYH\u2019s Development & Nominating Committee, and most recently has chaired VYH\u2019s Marketing Committee.<\/p>\n

Luftig has participated as an Executive Committee member of Valley Youth House’s premier event, Setting the Stage<\/em>, which has raised over $821,000 since 2016, as well as serving as a Steering Committee member for the “Great Beginnings” capital campaign which raised over $1.5 million for youth and families in our community.<\/p>\n

In 2018, his community leadership efforts were recognized as he received the Spirit of Volunteerism Award from the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley for his dedication to the betterment of the Lehigh Valley community.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll it takes is one caring adult to make a difference in the lives of children and their families, forever,\u201d comments Luftig. \u201cIt is an honor to serve Valley Youth House and support their mission and outreach to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We’re thrilled to have Eric serving as the Chair of our Board of Directors,” says Tom Harrington, President & CEO of Valley Youth House.\u00a0“His energy & enthusiasm is contagious, and he has a real passion for our mission.\u00a0 We look forward to continued growth and success under his leadership.”<\/p>\n

About Valley Youth House<\/strong>
\nValley Youth House (valleyyouthhouse.org<\/a>) does more than just provide homes for Pennsylvania\u2019s vulnerable, abused, and homeless youth. We partner with thousands of individuals each year to build a solid foundation for young people and their families. With dedicated street outreach, housing, counseling, skills training, health, prevention, and intervention services, we empower resilient young people in establishing promising futures.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Information & Image Provided By:
\nEmily Conners
\nValley Youth House Development Officer
\nhttps:\/\/www.valleyyouthhouse.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"… Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Eric-B-Luftig.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}