Lower Gwynedd Resident Scott Latimer Elected to Board of Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia

Lower Gwynedd resident Scott Latimer has been elected to the board of directors of Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia.

Latimer is a recently retired partner/principal in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ healthcare advisory/consulting practice, who, said Cradles to Crayons’ Executive Director Michal Smith, has made “significant and lasting contributions to health and welfare issues nationally and locally, as a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers and in key advisory positions with area organizations missioned to improve the lives of families here.”

The West Conshohocken-based nonprofit is a member of the Cradles to Crayons national network of regional nonprofits, which provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations – in Massachusetts, the Chicago metropolitan area (opening later this year) and the Greater Philadelphia region – with the essential items (e.g. clothes, diapers, toys, books, and school supplies) they need to thrive.

“Serving on the Cradles to Crayons’ board presents a challenge,” Latimer said. “For while the organization this year will serve more than 70,000 children living in low-income and homeless situations in our community,” he added, “we understand that we are reaching only one in three underserved children here. Our focus going forward is very clear.”

Latimer serves on the board of theVillage, a Rosemont, Pa.-based network of centers that provide child welfare, residential programs, mental health, and prevention services to children and families in Philadelphia and neighboring counties; on the healthcare committee of Project HOME, a North Philadelphia nonprofit whose mission is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty; and on the Dean’s Advisory Council of The Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.

He is a graduate of Bucknell University (BS in Business Administration – 1977) and The George Washington University (MBA in Health Care Administration – 1980). Scott Latimer and his wife, Patricia, reside in Lower Gwynedd. They have two daughters, Sarah and Kate.

Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia (www.cradlestocrayons.org) is located at 30 Clipper Road, West Conshohocken.

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