Donald Volk Elected to Board of West Conshohocken's Cradles to Crayons

TREDYFFIRN, PA -- Berwyn resident Donald Volk has been elected to the board of directors of Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia.

Volk is chairman of Volk Investment Group and principal and director of Karlani Capital.

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 Cradles to Crayons’ finance committee,” Volk said, “has provided invaluable insights into what this organization does – day in and day out – and what it needs to be able to bring its services to more children in-need throughout this region. ‘For-profit’ businesses and nonprofit charities have much in common – most of all,” he explained, “is the need to address today’s challenges efficiently while looking forward expansively.”

Volk is a board member of Devon-based Surrey Services for Seniors, a nonprofit organization that offers a comprehensive array of services that meet the wide-ranging needs of older adults, and is a member of AICPA and PICPA – the national and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants.

He is a graduate of Villanova University (BS – Accounting) and the Villanova Law School (MS – Taxation). Don and his wife, Susan, reside in Berwyn.

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

Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12 who live in homeless or low-income situations with the essential items they need to thrive—at home, at school, and at play. Cradles to Crayons supplies these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities that have with communities that need, collecting new and like-new children’s items through grassroots community drives and corporate donations. Working through its network of hundreds of community human service agencies “partners,” supported by tens of thousands of volunteers, Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia annually helps more than 55,000 children living in low-income and homeless situations.