Cleveland Pride

Cleveland, Ohio – The Board of Directors of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland (the LGBTCenter) is pleased to announce that Mr. Jan Cline has been hired as the new Executive Director. The three-month selection process included interviews with community stakeholders, present and past board leadership and the staff of the LGBT Center. “I feel very confident in our selection of Jan. We are proud of the transparent and thorough search process we used and feel that we found the best person to serve as our next Executive Director. We are confident that the community will support him as he takes the helm of our incredible organization,” stated Scott Morgan, President of the LGBT Center’s board of directors.

Mr.Cline is a Northeast Ohio native and a graduate of Kent State University. He has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising and management, including four years previously at the LGBT Center (1998-2002). His breadth of experience in a variety of community-based concerns includes social justice, LGBT issues, AIDS education, at-risk youth, mental health advocacy, fair housing regulation, and hunger relief. A resident of the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, Jan returned to Cleveland in 2008 and was most recently Director of Development for the Gordon Square Arts District, promoting the arts and economic development.

“This is my dream job,” stated Cline. “I look forward to stepping into some really big shoes, continuing the Center’s tradition of working to improve the region for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and families. It’s not by luck that Cleveland has had the Center serving our community since 1975 – a great deal of work, sacrifice and coalition building is in its history.”

Mary Zaller, Interim Executive Director of the LGBT Center added, “I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our very generous donors and volunteers, and ask that the LGBT and allied communities continue to support the important work of the LGBT Center as we welcome Jan back to the Center!” The LGBT Center’s previous director, Sue Doerfer, left in December to become the Executive Director of Equality Ohio. Mr. Cline will begin full time at the Center on March 29th.

About The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland: Founded in 1975, the LGBT Community Center works towards a society free of homophobia and gender oppression by advancing the respect, human rights and dignity of LGBT and allied communities. In addition to a drop-in facility, the LGBT Center does advocacy and policy work as part of the mission to make Greater Cleveland a region free of homophobia and gender oppression. The LGBT Center’s core program areas are social justice, social service and services that are social. The LGBT Center is located at 6600 Detroit Avenue, on Cleveland’s near west side.

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