EPCAMR is once again growing, slowly, but surely, by leaps and bounds. We’ve found it necessary to bring on a part-time Bookkeeper to help us update our Vendor and Customer Databases and to assist the Staff in data entry into our QuickBooks for NonProfits Accounting Software periodically to help with managing the numerous grants that we administer. It is a position that we have needed for a long time and now with the amount of grant funds that we are bringing in to EPCAMR, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is going to be a highly regarded position to keep our business accounts, checking accounts, interest bearing accounts, restricted fund balances, and unrestricted fund balances clean and reconciled. She will also be assisting with some clerical and Office Administrative needs of the EPCAMR Staff as needed.
Deirdre Jolley comes to us as a native of the Back Mountain, where she grew up. After earning her Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from Penn State University, she worked in the business world for many years. She went on to earn her Masters of Science from Misericordia University in Organizational Management in 2008 and begin teaching business management as an adjunct instructor for Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) in the Business Department. For nearly a decade, she worked for one of the larger non-profit health care institutions in the Wyoming Valley, Blue Cross of Northeastern PA, conducting outreach activities utilizing community involvement and public relations strategies to reach seniors and families with children that qualified for the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) Program. After leaving the corporate world 3 years ago, Deirdre has recently started up her own business, Everything Equine, and has already established an excellent reputation in the horse community, where in additional to taking care of horses, she is actively performing book keeping and billing for her customers, along with continuing to be an instructor at LCCC.
Deirdre and family — husband, two sons, 4 dogs, and 2 horses, purchased a small farm in Sweet Valley last year. New additions to the farm since then, include one more horse, a cat and 7 chickens. Making the move to the farm has inspired her to join EPCAMR. “Having this farm with my horses has been my dream since I was five years old”. “Now I want to begin to fully educate myself on and understand environmental preservation; this position with the EPCAMR will be a great learning opportunity for me and I’m hoping to put in some volunteer time as well”. Her husband, Jim, who works for the PA Game Commission, has been involved with EPCAMR over the years on many outdoor environmental education programs in partnership with the Luzerne Conservation District, particularly the Luzerne County EnviroThon and or other wildlife habitat improvement and land management projects on regional State Game Lands in our area.
Robert E. Hughes, Executive Director goes on to state, “Deirdre is someone that is familiar with the non-profit setting and accounting terms and principles, teaches business to local students, and runs her own small business, so I believe she understands how difficult it is for a non-profit organization as small as ours to stay afloat. Her expertise and years of experience are going to help us facilitate our recent jump in Staff and organizational capacity and grants management that have allowed us to grow both professionally and provide us with additional credibility given her degrees and her sincere commitment to helping to build us up. Right off the bat, on her first day of training and orientation, she’s off the races, like the horses at Mohegan Sun, updating our Vendor and Customer Databases with pertinent information that we have fell behind on over the years, acquiring additional account information that will prove helpful for future invoices, billing, and accounting purposes. She has also shown a great interest in learning more about how EPCAMR is restoring our environment from the impacts of past mining practices and given her conservation ethic to the land and her farm, I’m sure she will enjoy working and getting involved with our projects in the area to reclaim abandoned mine lands and remediate streams polluted by abandoned mine drainage (AMD). Welcome aboard, Deirdre!”
Deirdre Jolley, EPCAMR’s newest Part-Time Bookkeeper gets her profile picture taken in the brisk air at the Huber Miner’s Memorial Park with the Huber Breaker in the background outside the EPCAMR Office
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