SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Laguna Honda Foundation (http://www.lagunahondafoundation.org/) today announced the selection of Susan Cook Hoganson as president and chief executive officer.
Cook Hoganson comes to the newly incorporated Foundation with an outstanding track record over the past nine years as Executive Director and CEO of Enterprise for High School Students, a nonprofit program assisting high school students transition from school to the job market.
"Susan brings management, fundraising and community leadership skills that enable the new Foundation to educate and engage the Bay Area's generous private sector," said Louise Renne, founder and chair of the Foundation Board of Directors. "We look forward to her leadership as the Foundation raises the funds needed to ensure the new Laguna Honda has the furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) -- along with additional programming and research funds -- it requires to continue to provide compassionate care and healing for the City's elderly and disadvantaged populations."
The Foundation plans to raise $15 million over the next two years to cover FF&E needs, as well as to support long-term research, education and program development at Laguna Honda.
Highly involved in the community, Cook Hoganson serves currently on numerous boards, including the Women's Forum West Legacy Foundation, the Graduate Theological Union, and The Hamlin School Board of Trustees. She also has served as past president of the Junior League of San Francisco, and as president of the Modern Art Council.
A former banking executive with Union Bank of Switzerland and The Bank of California, Cook Hoganson also has participated in the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She was nominated last year for an Excellence in Leadership Award by the California Association of Nonprofits, and served as a Center of Social Innovation Fellow at Stanford. She holds an M. Ed. degree in English from Boston University.
About Laguna Honda: In November 2003 San Francisco began one of its most significant civic revitalization projects at Laguna Honda Hospital -- home to more than 1,000 of the City's frail elderly and disadvantaged citizens. With reconstruction funds from a 1999 voter referendum, augmented by private fundraising to cover the costs of furniture, fixtures and equipment, San Francisco will transform Laguna Honda from an aging facility that has served the City and County for more than 135 years into an innovative national model of accessible adult care and rehabilitation. The new facilities will be phased in over the next seven years, add 135 more licensed beds and 140 units of assisted living housing to meet Baby Boomer demographic demands. For more information on the Laguna Honda Foundation, please visit http://www.lagunahondafoundation.org/. For detailed information on the Replacement Project and its construction timeline between now and 2011, please visit http://www.dphsf.ca.us/lhhreplace.
Laguna Honda FoundationCONTACT: William Strawn of MacKenzie Communications, +1-415-403-0800, orwstrawn@mackenziesf.com
Web site: http://www.lagunahondafoundation.org/
