As founder and longtime leader Larry James stepped away, three top executives left in 2022, staff reductions began and a number of programs were shuttered or...
How a new CEO plans to turn around a once formidable poverty fighter after it lost its financial footing.
Annam has spent more than two decades with nonprofits, most recently as CEO of HopeWorks, a large homeless services provider in Albuquerque. From my research, she seems to have never failed to speak her mind on behalf of those without a voice — even when the powers that be didn’t like what she had to say.She traces her passion for nonprofit work to a train ride she took as an 11-year-old across southern India.
But Annam also lives by a deep faith. “When you feel called to do something, you just have to do it,” she told me. Since its inception, CitySquare has been identified, perhaps too much so, with Larry. Once he moved from his CEO job to a board seat in 2021, John Siburt took on the top job. He left in December 2022, telling the board it was time to “discover a new path.”
Larry, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2020, remains a board member and trusted adviser. It’s Annam’s job to reconnect donors to CitySquare’s mission.CitySquare will begin formal strategic planning this year — with considerable input from its neighbors — to help determine the anti-poverty areas where it can be most effective. By early 2025, Annam said, “We will have a clearer idea of who we are and what our mission and vision are.
The proposed route likely will take out part of the nonprofit’s parking lot and a bit of the food pantry. The campus also includes 50 cottages, among the options CitySquare currently provides for about 500 neighbors in its housing programs.Annam’s biggest joy in her work is visiting with the neighbors in the food pantry and cottages or in her occasional street outreach shifts. “I see myself in them,” she said.
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