Local Nonprofit Cradles to Crayons Adds John Marcante and Donald Volk to Board

Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia, the West Conshohocken-based nonprofit that provides area children, from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive, has elected John Marcante and Donald Volk to its board. Marcante is the chief information officer and managing director of The Vanguard Group. Volk is chairman of Volk Investment Group and principal and director of Karlani Capital.

Marcante, a graduate of Penn State University and St. Joseph’s University, was honored recently as a recipient of the Forbes CIO Innovation Award for 2016. Volk, a graduate of Villanova University and the Villanova Law School also serves on the board of Devon-based Surrey Services for Seniors. He is a member of AICPA and PICPA.

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 agency “partners,” supported annually by tens of thousands of volunteers, Cradles to Crayons-Philadelphia helps more than 70,000 children in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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