Erin Hubert

Boys and Girls Club of Portland
Portland, Oregon
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Erin Hubert leads the Boys and Girls Club of Portland, providing after-school programs for youth. Her Encore Fellow Ken lead the securing of a $7 million bridge loan to finance a new campus of the Club.

“Ken secured a $7 million complex bridge loan to have the needed cash to get the Club built on time.  He was able to traverse the complexity of this process – the financing and legalities of it – in a way that I couldn’t have done.”  Erin Hubert, CEO, Boys and Girls Club of Portland

Learn more about how Ken helped Erin and the Boys and Girls Club of Portland by reading the article below.  Here is a snippet:

Retirement gap year: Program matches retiring professionals with nonprofits

PORTLAND, Ore. — How do you picture your retirement? Maybe a little travel or more time on the golf course? Or just putting your feet up for some much deserved down time? That would no doubt sound good to a lot of people, but not to Ken Harris.

“I didn’t accept the notion of retiring you know,” Ken said.

Read and hear more of Ken and Erin’s story  from KGW TV in Portland.

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