Giving Children Hope's Jenise Steverding Added to Board of African Academy of Christian Leadership

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For Immediate Release

BUENA PARK, Calif. (January 18, 2008) – Jenise Steverding, Director of Advancement, Programs and Administration at Giving Children Hope, has just been added as treasurer to the board of the African Academy of Christian Leadership.
The African Academy of Christian Leadership’s primary mission is to bring spiritual, economical, and educational development to the country of Cameroon, West Africa, through church-planting, micro-business development, and the establishment of local schools. Giving Children Hope and the African Academy of Christian Leadership recently partnered on the establishment of a bakery and medical clinic in Cameroon.
Jenise Steverding is a native of Orange County, CA and earned her B.A. in Sociology and Social Science from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. She has 10+ years management experience in the private sector, institutes of higher education, community based non-profits, and governmental projects. She obtained her Master’s in Public Management through SDA Bocconi University, an internationally ranked business school located in Milan, Italy.

Prior to her employment at Giving Children Hope, she was working for the South African government on an urban redevelopment initiative of a township, Alexandra, located in Johannesburg. In addition to her new position on the board of the African Academy of Christian Leadership, Jenise is a board member of Old Skool Cafe in San Francisco, a social-enterprise restaurant vocationally training at-risk youth.
She joined Giving Children Hope in March 2007. Giving Children Hope is an Orange County based nonprofit organization working to bring medical and economic development to developing countries, as well as international relief aid. As a member of the management team, she recommends appropriate policies, procedures and strategies for the marketing, programmatic, donor engagement and administrative aspects of the organization.