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Paul W. Hamann - President |
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Paul W. Hamann is a native of Columbus, Ohio. He graduated Suma Cum Laude from
Ohio Dominican College in Columbus, OH, where he double majored in Psychology
and the Teaching of English as a Second Language. Following graduation, Paul
entered the seminary, as a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) within
the Roman Catholic Church, where he began theological studies and community formation
in preparation for ordination to the Priesthood. While with the Dominicans, Paul
worked at an emergency runaway youth shelter in San Francisco, as a hospital
chaplain at a level one trauma unit in Memphis, TN and for the S.H.A.R.E. Foundation
in Washington, D.C. and Berkeley, CA. While with S.H.A.R.E., Paul engaged in
fund development work on behalf of repatriated refugee communities in El Salvador.
He also traveled to El Salvador and spent time in guerilla held territory, providing
humanitarian aid to refugees.
After leaving formal religious life in 1991, Paul worked as a social worker in
a 250 bed adult homeless shelter and then as the Program Director at the Chinatown
Youth Center (CYC). While at CYC, Paul oversaw government-funded programs focusing
on the prevention of delinquency amongst San Francisco's Chinese youth population.
In 1994, Paul became the Director of Administration for the West Coast Region
of the Institute of International Education and for three years developed fundraising
programs and the administrative infrastructure needed to support the region's
work with Fulbright scholars.
In 1997, The Bothin Foundation asked Paul to undertake an independent feasibility
study that would result in Families on Track, the nonprofit partner in a full-service
community school collaborative. After accepting Paul's recommendations for the
project, the Foundation asked him to oversee Families on Track's seventeen-month
community development phase in South San Francisco. When this phase was finished,
Paul assumed the position of Executive Director and led the organization during
its first three years of program implementation, simultaneously developing the
business and administrative infrastructure for the new nonprofit while growing
its client population to more than 1200 individuals. During his association with
Families on Track, Paul raised over $4.5 million, and Families on Track was recognized
as a national model for providing family-centered social services within a public
school context. Paul served on the faculty at the University of San Francisco,
where he taught public finance within the Law Enforcement Leadership Degree Program.
In June 2002, Paul left the Bay Area for Chicago, where he served as the Director
of Finance & Administration for The Night Ministry. He became President of The Night Ministry in July 2007, after holding the role of Senior Vice President.
Paul holds two graduate degrees: one in Theology with an emphasis on social justice
teachings and the other in Nonprofit Administration.
Paul's motto is that one should always live so as to positively answer the question, "Will
it matter that I was?"
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