BEDS board member at large Mark Laubacher was recently named to Crain's 2021 Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders list. Laubacher, who served as board president for a three-year term at BEDS that ended in June, was honored for his leadership and work to advance BEDS Plus Care's mission.
Leaders were selected based on criteria including having at least five years of board experience, advancing the cause of a nonprofit organization and raising its profile in the community, mentoring other board members, helping the nonprofit to operate more efficiently and regularly contributing and assisting in fundraising in a meaningful way, among other things.
Laubacher was one of 70 nonprofit board leaders recognized by Crain's. He chairs a $1.4 million capital campaign at BEDS to match $1.5 million public funding for the Linda Sokol Francis Summit Service Center, a medical respite facility for adults with disabling conditions who are experiencing homelessness. Laubacher, who also serves as co-founder and vice chairman of Silver Birch Living, personally raised more than $125,000 for the project. Anticipated to open in third quarter 2022, the Summit facility will have 10 rooms for 24 people.
Laubacher also has been instrumental in BEDS' successful COVID-19 response and helped to restructure emergency shelter services as well as spearheaded fundraising efforts that generated $250,000 in private support for pandemic-related services. He led permanent changes in care delivery models to better meet the varied needs of BEDS' highly diverse client base of more than 2,000, based on agency learnings from COVID-19 that followed Winston Churchill's advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste." Laubacher truly leads by example and has served as a 2 a.m. shelter volunteer at BEDS for 15 years.
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